The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Your rabbi confesses that there are aspects of the Islamic struggle for world domination that he admires; not likes, not values, not commends and not approves, but admires. You willl learn why considering this a stuggle between Islam and Democracy is childish. Why Moslems fight among themselves. Why the Palestinian issue will never be solved by a bureaucrat with a map and a pencil. Why the hideous...

In war, whether economic or military, masculine countries tend to beat feminine countries. What is gender with countries and societies? Why do some societies become feminized? Why is this dangerously destructive? Is there a way to "have it all"? Read about how to integrate the different areas of your life in our new book The Holistic You. Available at your favorite bookseller now.    Learn more ab...

In this show we answer the puzzling paradoxes in the previous show. Even the most baffling behavioral enigmas surrender to a coherent moral matrix. A moral matrix answers questions in four main areas: Family, Finance, Friendships, and Fitness. A moral matrix is not time dependent; what was moral years ago will still be moral in years to come. Could a moral matrix emerge by itself in an isolated so...

Much of what you say flows subconsciously from your morality matrix. Many of your decisions are made based on your morality matrix. If you don’t have one, you are making a whole bunch of damaging mistakes in your life. With a proper functioning morality matrix you make far fewer mistakes and life is more joyful. With no morality matrix, or worse, a broken one, you are making decisions in finance,...

A young man says goodbye to his father and goes off to war. Why is this war different from every other ethnic conflict? Why can this one not be resolved by dividing the territory down the middle? Your rabbi is still in Israel. Why is the notorious Two State Solution, beloved by silly politicians, never going to be? Does Islam hate Christianity more than Christians love it? How many times has Islam...

The real purpose behind the Hamas mini-missiles. What is the atmosphere like right now on Israel’s streets? What happened in my synagogue just outside Jerusalem when the sirens went off on Saturday morning. Comparing civilian mortality rates in Israel’s Yom Kippur war fifty years ago with what happened on Saturday. The titanic struggle between civilization and barbarism. How long can Israel’s econ...

Exactly fifty years ago Israel’s General Moshe Dayan tried to call a press conference to announce the defeat of Israel and the end of its 25-year existence. Hear what happened. The four steps to finding your financial feet. Job. Excel. Save. Fitness.  It’s as simple as that, but as always, the details matter. Follow the program laid out for you in this show and your financial future will be meteor...

Dr. Naomi Wolf has been writing left-leaning provocative books and articles since she achieved fame as a feminist leader over thirty years ago. She advised Bill Clinton on his 1996 presidential election campaign, and she advised the Al Gore/Joe Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000. It would seem hard for Susan Lapin and your rabbi to find any common ground with her for a cordial conversation. M...

Now here’s a question: Why do men have nipples? Oh, we all know about Y chromosomes, but really, why? Here’s another: Why are male babies more fragile than female babies? What happens to a world of women, females, feminists? What happens to a world of thugs and wimps? Why do Kenyan Masai tribesmen have initiation ceremonies for boys only? Why do Jews have bar mitzvah ceremonies for boys? Is it eas...

Now here’s a paradox. Find the freedom to unleash all your creative potential precisely by limiting your freedom and learning how to use restriction and regulation. Why you resemble a .223 rifle round. Taking a job does rule out all other jobs and marrying someone is ruling out all the other amazing people who might be waiting around the corner. Starting a business does rule out all the other thin...

Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life but even we can inadvertently catch the contagious and destructive shortage virus. It is spread from person to person and via media, entertainment, and politics. And when you’ve caught it, you will start believing that we live in a world of shortage. You will prostrate yourself at the altar of recycling to prove to yourself that...

We’re all attracted to self-improvement. In some way, right? We want to improve our bank accounts; we want to improve our health by losing weight; we want to improve our conversational ability, our memories, our knowledge, our appearance, and much more. We love self-improvement. But we don’t always know that inner improvement is the gateway to all other improvement. It is a bit like wanting to bri...

Two simple but powerful strategies for you to follow in order to be taken more seriously. Do you feel that hormone blockers and radical genital surgery should be inflicted on 16-year-olds? You might just be a Reality Denier.  Do you feel that the brazen robbers who ransack hi end clothing stores, jewelry stores, and luxury retailers do so on account of capitalism, racism, sexism, or poverty? You j...

A white former South African and a black South African business professional get to know one another. We discuss how to educate teenagers for life success. We compare the notable success of African immigrants to America with the failure of Moslem immigrants to France. Our chat gets interrupted by yet another of South Africa’s frequent electrical outages. We explore how much more important discipli...

This important show describes how wise and stable governments do 2 things really well: they maintain the value of the currency and they protect parent-child relationships. The obvious results are strong families, stable society, and widespread affluence. Tyrannical regimes do exactly the opposite. They debase the currency, seriously eroding its value by causing inflation, and they undermine parent...

What liberalism liberates you from. Liberalism, progressivism, socialism, communism, all the same, differing only in degree. Liberalism caught on so widely in Western universities in the 1960s because it permitted guys to sleep with their girlfriends without any marriage commitment. Why liberalism emerged indigenously and thrived in America and Europe but not in Africa or Asia. Explore how to beco...

Ever heard people say that people and monkeys share 98% of the same DNA? Here is the correct response to that not altogether untrue claim. Women’s bodies produce a few large eggs while men’s bodies produce millions of tiny sperm but here is the real difference between men and women. Why do two similar people who have received the same amount of money not have equal net worth? The natural world doe...

Definition of Happy Warrior. Surprising prediction of who will not be on the ballot in the United States presidential election of November 2024. What 98% of women want, but fear admitting. The difference between boys and men. What 98% of men really desire. The #1 mistake that women make. The worst feeling to give a man. The difference between a new wife and an old wife and how a wife can be a new...

Happy Warriors know that the more that things change, the more we must depend on those things that never change. Juneteenth-the execution date of Soviet spies. Answer either A or B to each of these 3 questions and discover how spiritual you really are. Explore them with someone else and discover your romantic compatibility. Something else to explore with a beloved or an intended, is this:  https:/...

Why don’t you get a regular “Mental” like you go to get an annual “Physical”? The secret of achieving robust mental stability and tranquility. The 2 words you should never say. The one job you get to do without any training or qualification. The journey brings more benefits to your life than reaching the destination. The real reason Holland and Ireland are slaughtering half a million cows. The thi...

Could Germany have repelled the D Day invasion landings in Normandy? Lessons for us today from how Germany and Japan fought World War 2. Goodbye Pat Robertson. Frenzied fanatics without an economic base can inflict great damage on a more economically successful nation but they cannot win a war. The money really matters. Today, Boeing takes 10 days to build a B737. In 1944 America was building 10 a...

This show is not for tennis balls floating down the gutter of life! This show is for Happy Warriors and Happy Warriors can benefit from being able to foretell the future. This is not prophecy; it is a subset of wisdom. Let your rabbi introduce you to ancient Jewish wisdom’s effective techniques for foretelling the future. The secret is in the egg. How South African political turbulence changed the...

Divorce is everyone’s business. If your neighbors divorce, it is sad for them and their family but it also reduces your property value and raises your taxes. Teenagers marooned on an island-Survival. Why is Switzerland a nicer place to live than Somalia? In exchange for power and prestige, Socialistic politicians promise gullible voters all the advantages of prosperity and progress with none of th...

In the same way that the belief system of superstitious people steers them toward holding false ideas and mistaken views, the secular belief system of materialism steers its devotees toward the mistaken belief that the Bible is a largely irrelevant piece of ancient literature filled with silly stories, mindless myths, and laughable laws. In this show, your rabbi presents five Permanent Principles...

Why is this about choosing a WIFE and not about choosing a SPOUSE? Is your rabbi a ‘sexist’? Is choosing a wife a huge gamble? If you are a single woman, who would you rather marry-- a 37-year-old never married single man or a divorced man of the same age? Should a wise man choose as a wife, a woman with no friends? What is more important for a married couple to share—a bed or a bank account? How...