The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

I just saw Niagara Falls for the first time! I felt like remaining there for hours absorbing the overwhelming might of the sight. But not yielding to what I felt like but doing what I needed to do (record this show) was the right thing to do. We all make the mistake of believing that our feelings are all important and also all powerful. Marriages end because “I no longer feel anything for her”. Af...

Isn’t success in life more likely when we do exactly what we should do when we should do it? What interferes with this winning formula? Simple—our feelings and moods. Why didn’t you make that sales call/exercise/call your mother/deliver that order??? Answer: Because you didn’t feel like it. What if ancient Jewish wisdom can make you less susceptible to your feelings? Well, it can! Learn more about...

How to circumnavigate the Eastern United States-as if you cared! But wait! This small boat journey would use one of America’s greatest achievements—The Erie Canal. The similarity between the Jewish Star, the “Magen David”-the shield of David and the swastika. The spiritual significance of David’s six pointed Star. Why the New York State Thruway and Amtrak from Eastern New York to Buffalo follows t...

Like Germany’s Mrs. Merkel, who felt more compassion for a million Muslim men than for 80 million Germans, our government seems to feel more concern about Syrians than about Americans. Why do so many believe that American blood and money must be expended on a futile quest? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The one big money question to ask your kids. So, because I’m not female, I am not allowed to talk about the deepest desires of women? I am not, thank God, poor so I am prohibited from addressing problems of poverty? And my skin color censors what I might say about race in America? Really? The Left combats ideas by disqualifying the messenger. A dangerously high proportion of our population has bee...

What madness infects the brains of those who think that skin color tells you more about people than their beliefs and values? What bizarre disorder makes it easy for men to become women but impossible for homosexuals to become normal? What mysterious malady contaminates the minds of those who oppose the death penalty for sadistic serial murderers but are sanguine about snuffing out the life of a n...

Food tastes better to men when served by a woman they desire. Women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Really? Perhaps men just don’t share their pain. Is male depression underreported? Besides, I’ll tell you how men deal with it. Which story is more realistic, “Cinderella” or its opposite, “The Princess and the Peasant”? Many women freeze their eggs. Would men if they could? Men who fail...

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, said Irina and Gloria. Funny words but fatally flawed. Turns out women do need men, just as men need women. What sort of men do women need? Strong masculine men. What sort of women do men need? Strong feminine women. Why do they need each other? In order to be happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If our worst enemies had established a conspiracy in 1962 to harm America’s power and influence by 2016 could they have come up with a better plan than what has played out? Once the world’s finest K-12 educational system now a ridiculous caricature of education that is more of a teachers retirement and benefits program. Happy 4th of July Parades now replaced by homosexual pride displays of public...

Rabbi Lapin talks about the speed that America has descended into socialism; it's like breaking a dam. "Can you believe that Hollywood , once upon a time, was profoundly patriotic? And you think back in, I'm saying 1957, Hollywood was still patriotic in the aftermath of World War 2, but what happened? What happened in the last 60 years?" He's asking what happened to this country. Learn more about...

There are poor upper class people and rich low class people. Contrary to Marx, “Class” has nothing to do with money or skin color. It’s a mindset and a way of life. People headed for the upper class do not go on welfare. If human life is only material and not spiritual, then welfare would make sense. Since we are spiritual beings, instead of raising people to upper class, welfare imprisons them in...

Rabbi Daniel Lapin talks about time and its role. Everyone, even animals, live in the present. "The more present focused you are, the more tolerant you are of debt, because the bill only comes due sometime in the future. And as you become more somebody capable only of relating to the present, not the future. You literally don't feel the imperative of what's coming down the road in the future." Lea...

The Rabbi talks about how the culture is creating stronger and more independent women. He goes on to explain on how we are seeing a rise in financially independent women is great, but they are also looking for a successful marriage as well, plus the types of men that they are looking for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show is all about these five big questions: Am I making excuses for this famous politician’s son who left his wife and took up with his older brother’s widow? Aren’t strong and independent women the ideal we all aim for? How could women whose firemen husbands survived 9-11 also have become victims of that terrible Tuesday? Does the Bible really say sleeping with one’s sister is disgraceful? W...

Not all fights are fair. Why liberalism/leftism otherwise known as the religion of secular fundamentalism has the advantage. Does this mean that Judeo-Christian Biblical-based civilization will ultimately lose? One side says, “Vote for us and we’ll give you lots of stuff. And we’ll remove all the rules, restrictions, rituals and restraints that maintain society’s repressive institutions.” The othe...

Rabbi Lapin shows how political correctness is like landing on an island without civilization and the local people take you cautiously into the tribe. They find you odd when you do things that are normal but are not normal to them and arguing with the local witch doctor about the customs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oroville Dam will not burst, but its spillway might collapse. Why wasn’t it built right in the first place? Why hasn’t it been maintained? Can governments really suffer from moral failings? Using water to cut metal gives us an idea of its power. Is maintaining your possessions a religious duty incumbent upon all Jews and Christians? Is it ‘wrong’ to acquire ‘stuff’? Learn more about your ad choice...

The rabbi talks about why you should never use the weather for political gain and what is happening at the Oroville Dam in California and how the "experts" were wrong when they said it will never reach the emergency spill zone. He also talks about how dams work and their functions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone wants a Marvelous, Mysterious, Magical and Magnificent marriage! We don’t want a kind and considerate roommate. We don’t want a hygienic socio-economic partner. We don’t even want a cook, housecleaner-take-out-the-garbage-fixer-upper-fight-off-the-burglars-and-walk-the-dog, live-in tenant. No, we want the sexiest words in the English language, a husband or a wife. But that arrangement is...

The Rabbi talks about how relationships between man and wife, using a new car manual to explain today's cultural expectations of a marriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Christian missionaries brought democracy to Africa. Dr. Livingstone I presume. How religion’s Biblical values can build nations as well as people. Why I rode a motorcycle through Africa in 1969 and how I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Impulse control is really useful to build a successful life. Parents must model and teach it early. No impulse control? No problem; you now have a ment...

If you need a rabbi to get you through these tough political times, I am who you need. You should trust someone that knows how things work and can guide you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 1981 film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" involves Nazi Germany sending a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to uncover the holiest relic of the Jewish faith, the Ark of the Covenant. This film is more than just the work of Hollywood's creative minds, however, as Hitler really did have great interest in the holy relics of ancient times. Also, is the Holy Spear currently housed in Vienna real?...

How in heaven’s name did a 19th century Polish rabbi predict, in detail, Marconi’s invention of wireless? Spielberg’s movie ET was really a Christian movie? C’mon, really? Next you’ll tell me that Raiders of the Lost Ark was a documentary. Well, er…yes! Hitler’s obsession with the occult and why Israel bans the music of Richard Wagner. Yes, beautiful music can carry a hideous message. C. S. Lewis,...

The inaugural speech was vintage Trump. It was familiar and reassuring. But we must understand why such intense personal hostility towards Trump. Why do people (mostly men, because women find transcendence in other more obvious activities) engage in far more intense and extreme activities than they did a hundred years ago? Why is life somehow more satisfying for people taking care of a spouse and...