The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Shocking but important question to ask: Does mental health covering areas of anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, eating disorders, and so on, belong as part of medicine or is it an entirely separate discipline? Does mental health and emotional tranquility fit under the Fitness category or under Faith? Is our mental equilibrium a matter of our bodies or of our souls? Our need for connection to t...

Why so many girl babies were aborted (and still are). The value of building a family. Sons carry on your name. What do daughters do that you can’t live without? Choosing a spouse. What nobody teaches young people today about marriage. The Lapin Passover Seder. The invention of the Bessemer Steel making furnace. Victoria Falls in Africa. Benefits of a large family. The amazing Longfellow poem, Hiaw...

Mass hysteria is a real thing. Large numbers of people, maybe an entire society swept away by an emotional avalanche. Covid, masks, climate change, overpopulation, evil Russia must be stopped, and many more examples. The French Revolution was mass hysteria and so were the preschool sex abuse cases in the 1980s in California and Massachusetts. The fear that artificial intelligence will get sophisti...

“You can never be too rich or too thin” claimed U.S. fashion magazine “Harper’s Bazaar” in 1963. The aphorism may be witty but it certainly isn’t true. If one’s finances have been won by ruining every other aspect of your life, the other four Fs, Family, Fitness, Friendship and Faith, then maybe you are too rich. And regarding being thin, of course one can be too thin for good health. But how do w...

All Happy Warriors know when they are mistakenly BEHAVING on emotions and feelings. In this show we learn how to know when we are THINKING on emotions and feelings. Just as fire can build and destroy, male-female relationships can build a strong family-based society and they can also destroy society through casual encounters that cause jealousies and aggressions. Polygamy is widely practiced in mo...

Tension between erotic pleasure and reproduction in marital intimacy. If it is only about erotic pleasure, then reproduction must be thwarted. If it is only about reproduction, then why the pleasure? We used to think of doctors who sterilize young women as war criminals. Today, it is perfectly natural and perfectly normal. Enjoy the pleasure of baking and eating special Sabbath bread called Challa...

The astonishing events that occurred when the communist Sandanistas put 500 deaf Nicaraguan children in one special school in Managua. No, Agatha, I am sorry but Koko the gorilla could not speak. And Fred, I am sorry but Kanzi the chimpanzee did not ever speak either. Do how did humans acquire the miracle of speech if it is not found in monkeys, racehorses, or dolphins? Oh yes, they certainly comm...

Your rabbi knows as much about cooking as a clown knows of neurosurgery. But this week he prepared spectacular cod. This remarkable fish nourished Europe for hundreds of years and then provided an economic base to the New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. How did the Basque people of Spain and France come to dominate the cod business. What happened to the 200 pound cod fish we used...

Who are our friends? Here’s a bigger question: What is a boyfriend or a girlfriend? Is there such a thing as casual s*x for women? Watch out for men who have repeatedly broken girls’ hearts and watch out for girls who have repeatedly had their hearts broken by men; they’re dangerous. Why do earthquakes in non-western countries seem to kill more people than similar events in western countries? If h...

The difference between conceiving a baby and having a son or daughter. Respect for parents: Primitive religious relic or key to education and financial success? How making decisions closes off options. Bad parents want their youngsters “just to be happy”. A child’s identity is formed by family, religion, and nation. GICs try to form a child’s identity around race, class, and gender. None of our li...

 How would you explain the difference between intelligence and wisdom? Which brings better life success? The story of Chesley Sullenberger and how he landed his airplane on the Hudson River. Why men are overrepresented in the top and bottom of the IQ bell curve. Can one's IQ be changed? Why university isn’t the be all and end all of life. Is the IQ test predictive of certain things? How do we dist...

How did the pretty five-pointed star become associated with Satanic culture? The surprising impact that money has on women’s married lives.  Why don’t we hear much these days about overpopulation and the Zero Population Movement?  The disturbing effect that over-preoccupation with death has on mental/spiritual health, and what to do about it. Experts tell us that the shrinking population can be co...

Oh, age is nothing but a number. Many single women from 28 to 40 tell me this. But why do so many women but so few men repeat that nonsensical phrase—oh, age is nothing but a number? If age is nothing but a meaningless number, why do most news stories and feature articles about people report on their ages? Why do people want to know the real age of those they date? Become a member of the Happy War...

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show not intended for clowns, creeps, crooks or cranks, but instead, respectfully offered to one of the highest life forms-you the Happy Warrior. How will the collapse of FTX bitcoin exchange impact blockchain technology? I was right on this one. Make 2023 a fantastic new year. Not with a new year’s resolution. They never work. But with a compilation of 52 separat...

Making money by honestly providing goods and services is never selfish or greedy. Saying you want to improve the world is camouflaging your power grab. You’ll end up using force to get others to accept your vision of improvement. What does Jacob’s dream of the angels’ ladder in Genesis really mean? What does sleeping with someone really mean? Why FU money is such a mistake. How the dream of becomi...

What happened when your rabbi delivered an illegal live speech during 2020’s covid lockdown. Which community in America was the first to achieve herd-immunity from covid? Is it remotely possible that your kid’s dangerous peanut allergy was caused by infant vaccination? How the Washington Post told its readers that Jewish people poisoned the village well. What happened in a Paris park on January 5,...

Yes, there are things you can share with a friend but never with your spouse. There are indeed many different ways to be miserable and unhappy. But the road to success and happiness takes pretty much the same route for everyone. That route is revealed in this podcast show. Family is overvalued when we’re young and undervalued as we grow older. Fragmenting your life seriously handicaps you. What sh...

Sigmund Freud was a fraud. He was also Jewish. As were 100 other big names in psychology. For over 125 years with the exceptions of Carl Jung and William James pretty much all the big names in psychology, psychiatry & psychoanalysis have all been Jewish. Does being Jewish have anything to do with God? Is psychology a science? Can anything to do with human minds, hearts, and souls be calculated and...

The Wall Street Journal is utterly baffled why married couples make much more money than couples living together. All the data confirms that single people, divorced people, and couples who cohabit make much less money than married couples. In fact, the literature is irrefutable on this. If you care about poverty, you need to care about marriage. The colossal question is why. How does your back acc...

Whatever country you live in a culture war is being fought. Is it nationalists against globalists? Is it socialists against capitalists? In war, if a soldier wears a false uniform, he might be viewed as a spy. In this war, almost all the soldiers are wearing camouflage. Sometimes the battle lines get obscured by the clouds of confusion. You can better focus on your 5Fs if you know who really is fi...

Each of your 5F Fundamentals can power the other 4 if you understand the ten linkages. Learn how your Finances will impact your Fitness and, inversely, how your physical health will almost certainly impact your financial condition. Have you checked out our Happy Warriors membership page? See here  www. WeHappyWarriors.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When President Biden took office early in 2021, the average price of diesel fuel in the U.S. was $2.50. Within eighteen months it had doubled to about $5:00 a gallon. Of that, about $0.25 a gallon is federal tax, while states tax on average another $0:50. California taxes diesel at the rate of $0:94 per gallon. Diesel fuel is used for almost everything. It has doubled in price in less than 2 years...

One of the most conspicuous distinctions between mammals and humans is that no animal sacrifices for abstract ideals. Many female mammals will imperil themselves to save their young. This is an instinct without which the species would not survive. But humans will sacrifice for a belief or an idea. Why, humans will even sacrifice their very children for an often bizarre and false idea. They will se...

Inflation is really about double the official figure. What should you do? How do you get some of your money out of dollars that lose 1% of their value every single month? The Queen is dead; Long live the King! The role the queen really played in building an empire. How a society’s deteriorating sexual morals are a sigh of impending extinction. Learn more here: The Gathering Storm https://www.wehap...

Happy Warriors are NOT tennis balls floating down the gutter of life. Marriage is the finest educational institution. Not that there is much competition these days. Life Rule #94: You must know this one if you ever try a repair of your plumbing, your tooth, your business, your marriage or any other area of life. Before you see improvement, you WILL see…? Discover the one and only way to enjoy the...