The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Can America come back from the precipice? Has any nation as far in decline as ours ever come back? Ancient Israel and its similarities to modern America. Marriage makes the woman; a child makes the man. Fixing foreign policy. Improving the economy. Eliminate paralyzing rules of engagement, increase funding and make the military strong again. Terminate Dept. of Education, teachers’ unions and all e...

Why the president and his lackeys say ISIL while everyone else says ISIS. How this administration sends secret messages to the Arab street. How and why our international airports, once symbols of America’s economic prestige and technical prowess, have become 3rd world bus stations. What twisted morality decrees that doctors must treat the terrorist before they treat his victims? Remember equal pay...

Heaven knows there’s much to worry about. China. Isis. Russia. The Supreme Court. The National Debt-$20 Trillion and growing. Being governed, regulated, and tormented by unelected bureaucratic agencies. One third of all Americans not working-How they eating? By the sweat of your brow. The Veterans Administration. The TSA. The IRS. Growing governmental arrogance. The elections. Women on submarines...

Why both new marriages and new businesses fail at approximately the same rate. What does water skiing have to do with marriage? Your radio rabbi’s radio-building youth—remember Crystol Sets? Why the rabbi and his wife, Susan, are so utterly different from one another. Why do you think our uniqueness as individual humans is imprinted upon our fingertips? Could it have anything to do with fingers be...

Why in these days of easy hook-ups does prostitution still flourish? Learn to draw reliable, evidence-based conclusions rather than having your emotional advocacy overwhelm your analysis. Why did actor Hugh Grant lose model Elizabeth Hurley in favor of a $50 prostitute in 1995. Why did N.Y. Governor Elliot Spitzer lose his marriage and career in 2008 by becoming client #9 for Madam Ashley in room...

Why can’t America defeat the 12th Century culture of our Muslims tormentors? On the night before the Normandy Invasion in June 1944, General George Patton spoke to his troops. “Americans play to win all the time. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war.” Up until that date he was right. At his Inaugural Address in January 1961, President Kennedy promised, “we shall pay any p...

It sounds like a grandiose promise but it’s quite true. If you know just these 3 things you’ll know how to build a successful career and create real wealth, you’ll know how to choose friends, associates and employees. You’ll even know what to major in at college. You’ll know how to choose a spouse and keep a spouse. You’ll also know how to attain happiness and raise happy children. You’ll know how...

The very best business idea you’ve never heard. How you could launch it today. Getting a new car for free. Why barter clubs always fail. The fatal moral blemish that brings on inflation and erodes your savings. Four “Truths”That Just Ain’t So: (i) Richard Milhous Nixon was a bad president. (ii) The French revolution was an effective response to inequality. (iii) All you need is love. (iv) People o...

Optimism is the fuel that propels you to achievement in family, friendships, and yes, in finance. Yet many suffer the pain of pessimism and have no idea of how to defeat it. People are imprisoned by pessimism and prevented from finding their destiny. Learn to develop your optimism and acquire one of the most powerful tools of success. Pessimism inflicts even more damage upon societies and nations....

The cultural heirs of Bach and Beethoven are banging bongo drums in Boston recreating the sounds of the jungle in the shadow of the ivory towers of civilization. Banging bongos takes little talent other than a basic grasp of the primal rhythm of sex. Playing the piano, whether Beethoven or Boogie Woogie takes talent and discipline. Israel is a symbol of civilization-the cultural elites of North Am...

Many more people die in natural disasters like floods and earthquakes in Haiti, Asia, and Africa than in western countries. Does this mean God sends more calamities to non-Christian countries? Yes, Volkswagen should pay a fine, but to government regulatory agencies or to the car owners who may have been affected? Which VW car to buy now. Climate change has become a religion. Heretics, blasphemers...

In first half of show I explain from Jerusalem what Israel will do about Iran’s nuke progress and how it could do it. Also what Israel could do about its mounting civilian casualties at the hands of Muslim terrorists but won’t do. Susan and I visit the home where elderly parents were mourning the recent murder of their son and daughter-in-law. In the next room sat their four orphaned grandsons age...

Ever wondered why liberal elites like academics, politicians, and actors respect and revere Islam even though they would be executed under Sharia? Ever wondered why male humans have nipples but male mice and male horses do not? Ever wondered why men must perform actively (in every way) but women less so? Ever wondered why for every four men trying to become women, only one woman wants to become a...

A glimpse into Lapin family life and how a little girl who could only do arithmetic if there was a dollar $ign in front of the numbers became a successful Israeli entrepreneur. Boys and girls are so different that we need separate sports teams and leagues for male and female players of tennis, soccer, wrestling and pretty much all else. Yet boys and girls are so similar that they can go to war tog...

Invasion by immigration! Mexicans go to America not Venezuela. Libyans go to Italy not Somalia. Syrians go to Germany not Qatar. You know why? Generous welfare benefits is why. So the solution is…? But wait! Surely Bible instructs to treat the ‘stranger among you’ as one of you? (Leviticus 19; Deuteronomy 10) Rabbi Daniel Lapin explains the Hebrew meaning of those words. Like Country singer Kip Mo...

Who’s drowning in the Mediterranean? Europeans desperate to reach the Middle East & Africa or MENA residents trying to reach Europe? Why is western civilization everyone’s goal? Yes I know Western countries are richer and freer, but why? How come 97% of discoveries in science, technology & medicine of past 1,000 years occurred in Western Civilization? Yes, Fred, I know gunpowder was invented in Ch...

Do any of the 435 national legislators on Capitol Hill know of any moral framework defending national integrity? Does any State Dept. bureaucrat know of any moral framework validating border control? It sure doesn’t look like it, does it? And if you don’t believe in the morality of it, how can you accomplish it? No decent person can succeed at any enterprise that deep in his heart he considers mor...

“Income inequality” really America’s most serious challenge? C’mon, who believes this bilge-water? Stupid Seattle merchant believed it. The one thing that U.S. business schools NOT teaching? How to start a business! A tale of 2 cars: Lexus vs. Infiniti. Australia taking on Communist China? Underwater? With WWII military technology! Do you know why there were never coal-powered airplanes? Do you ca...

How a young female nurse in a large city hospital handles immigrants (and some citizens) who think they’re entitled to five star hotel treatment for free and why they get it. She also proves that Obamacare is on critical life-support. Rabbi Daniel Lapin’s 3 vital questions every woman must ask any man wanting to date her and one sure giveaway that he’s a loser. Hint: It has to do with his mom. Doe...

Ever wondered why liberal talk radio always flops? Only government-seized and redistributed money sustains liberal views on radio. Now television is another story. But why not on radio? The explanation flows from differences between men's and women's bodies. Why there will be no limits on money in politics when Rabbi Daniel Lapin is in charge! Why it's perfectly okay to auction organs taken involu...

Stimulated by boating in British Columbia, Rabbi Daniel Lapin inquires, did God bring California's drought? Why have they built no new dams in 35 years? It's not the big G but the big E! Why exactly did the 1960s end big construction in America? Bridges, dams, highways? -Nothing. Now Africa and Asia pour concrete while we preen ourselves with moral virtue. How to understand that? Remote islands ar...

We’re all constantly doing sales presentations whether we’re talking to our spouses, children, or work associates. Let your rabbi teach you one of the biggest secrets of successful sales presentations and increase your persuasiveness in every situation. Talking of persuasive, how effectively did the counterculture of the 1960's change America. We use ancient Jewish wisdom to explore why it happene...

Whatever two adults do sexually is not government's business but when two adults engage in a free, consensual, economic or business transaction, government regulates it, controls it, taxes it, maligns or prohibits it. The Left gives a free pass to adulterers who ruin lives while they focus their fury on business professionals who improve lives. Why is our appetite for sex so understandable while o...

In Episode 2 of his podcast, Rabbi Daniel Lapin laughs at some jokes, chats about his pet chimpanzee and recounts the passing of his parents. All this in order to disclose how much of our lives depend on distinguishing the spiritual from the physical. Whether in romantic relationships, professional partnerships, or social affiliations we need to learn how to nail down the spiritual before the phys...

In his 2 hour debut, Rabbi Daniel Lapin explains how politics is nothing more than the practical application of people’s deepest beliefs. How Sex Ed and the Death Tax share a common parent and why placebos work. What Alcoholics Anonymous has to do with Freddy Mercury and the band Queen and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices