Rabbi Daniel Lapin
495 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 811 ratingsRabbi Daniel Lapin reveals how the world REALLY works and reminds us that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.
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Are We Really Progressing To A Better Future Of Peace & Prosperity? - 10/21/17
October 21, 2017 16:00 - 1 hourSo those ‘Death Panels’ really are coming, first to the United Kingdom and soon thereafter to us—unless we terminate Obama Care along with almost all government involvement in healthcare. While we’re at it, why don’t we fix education by privatizing it & closing Government Indoctrination Camps (GIC’s otherwise known as public schools)? Why are Gulf State Arabs building modern societies while Palestinian Arabs fail at almost everything but killing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton & Secular Liberal Hypocrisy - 10/14/17
October 14, 2017 16:00 - 1 hourIt’s been hilarious watching the ostentatious displays of pretend virtue by celebrities tumbling over one another to condemn one of their own. The truth is that it takes no bravery and no courage to waddle up and stick a knife into the bleeding body of a harpooned whale lying helplessly on the beach. Why now? Why didn’t all those who’ve known for years condemn Weinstein back then? Why didn’t a Paltrow or a Jolie use an Oscar speech to denounce their tormentor? What was brother Bob’s role...
Avoid Foolishness: Consider Las Vegas Emotionally & Thoughtfully - 10/7/17
October 07, 2017 16:00 - 51 minutesLearning to evaluate your life’s circumstances using both head and heart—separately. How it applies to the Las Vegas massacre. We know that those exploiting Las Vegas to advance a “gun-control” agenda are cynical, manipulative, dishonest (and also probably foolish) by taking a look at suicide and traffic fatality figures. Do fewer homes own a toolbox these days? Are Americans less resourceful and self-reliant? Is that why Ikea made a surprising purchase? Breaking News!! Teachers FEEL ...
Roy Moore Won & So Did the German Right Wing Party. So Why Are Jews Angry? - 9/30/17
September 30, 2017 16:00 - 1 hourJudge Roy Moore defeated the mainstream GOP candidate (whom President Trump mistakenly backed!!) for an Alabama Senate seat. Again, our rulers, bureaucrats, & bosses failed to grasp that we don’t like important decisions that impact the quality of our lives being made by professional politicians who view us with disdain. In Germany. The AFD did the same by securing a massive victory last Sunday, elected into government by those ordinary citizens who’ve been paying the real-world price for M...
Thoughtful Scientific Skeptics Should Reject the Religion of Secular Fundamentalism - 9/23/17
September 23, 2017 16:00 - 1 hourThe 3 characteristics that define a religion and why Scientology isn’t one but Islam is. Why progressive politics and leftist ideologies are not a political creed but are, in fact, a religion. Can you name the “High Priests” of the Left? Why so-called “climate-change” has far less to do with science than it does with religious belief. Meet a Berkeley-trained feminist skeptic (Judy) who met a rabbi (me). You’ll enjoy hearing about her initial encounter with faith and how she ultimately fe...
Progressive Politics Is Not Merely An Evil Pathology--It's a Religion! - 9/16/17
September 16, 2017 16:00 - 54 minutesThings you'd be surprised to know that I own: A copy of Mein Kampf, by A. Hitler. The shattered fragments of an Aztec idol. An enameled swastika medal Hitler signed and presented to a German mother 74 years ago. In this show I reveal why I own them and how they demonstrate spiritual reality. Giant Buddhas in 2001 equals Confederate Generals in 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Timely Lessons in Love for Young Men - 9/9/17
September 09, 2017 16:00 - 1 hourHow a nice, ordinary middle-class, young guy successfully sued a wealthy older doctor for seducing his wife into a tawdry affair. No, your rabbi hasn’t joined the staff of People Magazine, but here is one reason why Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s marriage worked and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s didn’t. Remember when female flight attendants (that would be ‘stewardesses’ to you old-timers!) were all young and beautiful? Let me tell you what happened to many of them. A good woman is ...
Harvey--The Toxic Triumph of Sentimentality in American Politics - 9/2/17
September 02, 2017 16:00 - 53 minutesDoes the president really need to show that he cares about Houston or is it enough for him to take the necessary actions to bring relief? Who are these looters? What distinguishes looters from rescuers? How can you predict who would rescue and who would loot. Watch out! Today you’re being judged by the feelings you express and not by your thoughts and actions. God help us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Difference Between Death & Taxes - 8/26/17
August 26, 2017 16:00 - 48 minutesWhen a group of people form a society, whether it is the Pilgrims, the Oneidas, the Shakers, the Communists or any other groups, one thing they have to decide is how they are going to organize money. How will people eat and how will the organizers (government) seize its monetary needs? Money is an interface between physical and spiritual. People often fail to recognize the role that morality plays in economic policy. In this show, we examine the questionable morality of the Income Tax and lit...
Removing Historical Statues & Monuments Helps Who? How? - 8/19/17
August 19, 2017 16:00 - 1 hourA vital secret of successful living is moving on from the past, no matter how horrible, evil, unjust, or immoral that past was. Some of the best ways to live successfully is to avoid financial dependence on the largesse of government or charity, become a great spouse and a great parent, find faith, and develop a circle of like-minded friends. This works for those born with a silver spoon in their mouths just as it does for those who have endured great hardship, even pain in their pasts. But...
Recognize the past without dwelling on it. Move on.
August 19, 2017 16:00 - 3 minutesThe best way to sabotage a life is to dwell on past evils as explanations and excuses for one’s victimhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8/11/17 - The Ten Reasons That Made Me Support Donald Trump Since Early 2016
August 12, 2017 16:00 - 3 minutesI have two dear friends (whose names I mention in the show) each of whom hosts a national radio show and each of whom were ‘Never-Trumpers’. I didn’t understand them then. I don’t understand them now. But they are both good and honorable men. I decided to come up with ten truths that they couldn’t contradict and which would leave them both incapable of explaining satisfactorily why they voted against President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8/11/17 - Ten Trump Truths: Why He Should Have Won Every Thoughtful Citizen’s Vote
August 12, 2017 16:00 - 55 minutesMost of what the sick, evil and twisted denizens of the Democratic Party claimed about Pres. Trump weren’t true. Here are ten things about the President that are indeed true. One of them is while occasionally really bad men do have great kids, those great kids never retain relationships with their bad fathers. When you see great kids remaining close to their dads, you’d be making a big mistake writing off those dads as jerks. They aren’t. Listen for the remaining nine Trump truths. Lea...
8/5/17 What exactly is Western Civilization?
August 05, 2017 19:54 - 3 minutesRabbi Daniel Lapin talks about Western Civilization and how the choice to live that way of life is common among people. He explains a time when the New York Times really stood for something. Rabbi also talks about how institutions have a certain momentum that keeps it going within the civilization for many years but eventully comes to an end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8/5/17 Western Civilization is NOT Racist - It's Everyone's Best Hope!
August 05, 2017 19:54 - 58 minutesPresident Trump defended the West and was reviled as a racist. That slur is nothing but a meaningless bludgeon. Can’t tell the difference between the West and the Rest? Just try using a public bathroom in Bahawalpur and then do the same in Boston. Still not sure? Okay, time to get dramatic. Break your leg on the street in Lagos, and then do the same (the other leg) in London. Getting the idea? Just try buying a home or starting a business in Teheran and then try it in Tallahassee. So ...
7/29/17 - Men, Women, & Money: Is The Role Of Money In Romance Real?
July 29, 2017 16:00 - 54 minutesDo you know any new brides thrilled that their frugal fiancées bought their engagement rings at a flea market for $6.99? Why is it important for women to get engaged with an expensive diamond ring? Why don’t women propose marriage to men? (Hint: A new Rolex watch might be a good way to go) Is a women who wants to marry a man with a few dollars (or the prospect of plenty) a gold digger or an excellent woman? You’ll be surprised at my answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
7/29/17 - I Know The Two Biggest Mistakes Of Your Life-But I Won’t Tell Anyone Else
July 29, 2017 16:00 - 6 minutesAyn Rand wasn’t right on everything but she is on these 2 ideas: “A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions . Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.” And this one, “...money demands of you the highest virtues…men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem…who have no moral sense of their right to their money…men who apologize for being rich…” If you could teach your children only two things, teach them how money w...
7/22/17 - Why The Left Loathes Your Family and Your Finances - What’s The Connection?
July 21, 2017 23:04 - 38 minutesLet’s consolidate Leftism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism, Progressivism, and yes, Liberalism, all under one simple but true umbrella---Secular Fundamentalism. Start off with a commitment to secularism, and your soul is automatically tugged left. Reject God and for most the alternative is government. But why Oh why do people who hate private property and despise the “rich” also loathe the traditional family. Why can’t you be a good economic leftist, loving high taxes and government redistr...
7/22/17 - Why The Communist Manifesto Is Still Relevant To Our Dreams & Nightmares
July 21, 2017 22:52 - 5 minutesIt might have been written over 150 years ago but the part of our soul to which Marx and Engels were singing is still seduced by socialism. Until we are willing to deny the State any rights to our families and to our money, we will always remain vulnerable. Under the promise of security and equality, politicians lure you into dependency. A very bad deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7/15/17 - The Sad Slide of Socialism into Debauchery, Degeneracy, and Depravity
July 14, 2017 20:07 - 4 minutesWhy are those who support confiscatory rates of taxation usually the same people as those who support increased entitlement spending? Why do opponents of the death penalty for murder also usually support abortion? Why do those who consider Christianity to be a bigger problem than Islam want America to resemble Europe? Why do those who think public schools are doing a great job also generally support transgenderism? Why do those who feel America’s contribution to the world has been negativ...
7/15/17 - A Glimpse Thru My Lens: How The World REALLY Works
July 14, 2017 20:06 - 1 hourLet’s go back to first principles. I invite you to see the world through my eyes. How the insanity of today’s headlines makes perfect sense as long as you have the right lens. I provide you with the tools, you decide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Excremental Assault & Fecal Fixation-The Culture of Death
July 07, 2017 20:55 - 57 minutesIn this show I describe the many ways that death has unobtrusively invaded our culture. Sometimes it is camouflaged as tolerance or political correctness. Other times such as the assisted suicide and euthanasia legalization movement it is quite blatant. Infatuation with the culture of death underlies much of how ugliness is replacing beauty, vulgarity is replacing restraint, and why C**P and S**T have become part of almost conventional communication. Every A*****E knows that. Flinging thos...
I judge religion off the behaviors of their devotees
July 07, 2017 20:55 - 3 minutesI judge religion off the behaviors of their devotees. Observe people who follow the dictates of the Torah. Those people are the ones you can look to be model citizens apart of their religion and culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
7/1/17 Ladies, Don’t Pretend to Reach for Your Wallet-Let Him Pay!
June 30, 2017 22:08 - 53 minutesAnother island analogy describing what will happen in America, Canada, and Europe, as more and more people go onto government payroll. 77% of women expect man to pay for date. Are they gold diggers? Are they free-loaders? Are they poor? Not at all. Their reasons are not financial. They are emotional and they are valid. We explore just why it is in the best interests of both the man and the woman for him to pay for dinner. And while we’re at it, don’t date him if he doesn’t have a job. L...
7/1/17 What Can She Do?--Her Boyfriend Is A Loser
June 30, 2017 22:07 - 7 minutesIt was fun for the two of them being broke, lefty students back in art school but now she’s late 20s and has a real job making real money. But Loser Boyfriend is still without a job, ambition, emotional maturity, or health insurance. She wants, furniture, a vacation, and yes, a baby! Must she kick him to the curb? Let your rabbi bring the bad news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Did Mrs. Lapin Really Call Me A Gorilla? (Was it payback?)
June 24, 2017 02:14 - 55 minutesWhy was Mrs. Lapin laughing at the Balzac quote about most husbands looking like Orangutans trying to play violins? We avoid building bridges that are destined to fail. We avoid constructing buildings that defy laws of gravity and will fall. Yet, large numbers of people set themselves up in living arrangements that will most likely result in trainwrecks. Do some “open marriages” survive? There may be one or two. Do most children do better living with their father and their mother marri...
Bad Bridges Fall and Bad Living Arrangements Make Men & Women Miserable
June 24, 2017 01:58 - 4 minutesWhen you stick to the laws of engineering and physics you build bridges and buildings that stand strong and endure. When you stick to the laws of how the world REALLY works you build marriages that thrive happily and endure. We find the former easier to accept than the latter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s The Tough Men-Only-Work-With-Your-Hands Jobs That Leave America
June 17, 2017 06:18 - 1 hourChina is buying one large American company after another. Hilton Hotels, GE Appliances, Waldorf Hotel, AMC Theaters, Motorola, Smithfield Foods, and hundreds & hundreds more. Progressive politicians say, “No problem! It’s all good.” Academics and media elites are all internationalists and globalists anyway, so they think it’s just fine. But what does your gut say? Is it really good when an American company moves production to China? There’s a reason the secular left is fine with man job...
Will We All Become China’s Slaves?
June 17, 2017 06:18 - 4 minutesWhether it’s toothaches, cars, or countries, years of neglect and mismanagement take a toll. What is more, initial efforts at repair cause pain and are expensive in time and money. Not surprisingly, after 24 years of damage and decay America is selling itself to China. When last did you see something made in America? Does this matter? You bet it does. Let me explain why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Reality of Money & Sex To Financial and Marital Success
June 10, 2017 12:46 - 1 hourThis show is about money and sex and how these two of mankind's most compelling urges reinforce one another and how they sublimate into marriage and commerce for the benefit of both individuals and society. A look at the TV sitcom of the 90s, Friends. How our relationships fall into 3 categories: Sexual (family); Non-Sexual (financial); and friends. The role objective obligation plays in relationships. What surprising behavior hurts your health to the equivalent of a pack a day of cigarette...
Let’s Talk Marriage Inequality Not Income Inequality
June 10, 2017 12:46 - 4 minutest’s an inconvenient truth for progressives that single people are seven times poorer than married people. America is now a two-caste system with marriage as the dividing line. In the high-income third of the population, children are raised by married parents; in the bottom-income third, children are raised by single parents. The main difference between the haves and the have-nots is that the haves tend to marry and give birth, in that order. The have-nots tend to have babies and remain unmar...
Only Connect! The 4 ‘F’ Words For Successful Living
June 03, 2017 03:42 - 1 hourOnly Connect! Enhance every aspect of your life, Friendships, Finances, Faith, & Family by connecting more deeply with more people! Who helped me get my private pilot license? The power of patterns & learning the Morse Code in 15 minutes. We don’t write off people because they are imperfect or hold views we may despise. Each of us is a complex amalgam of good and bad. The good doesn’t get wiped out by the bad, neither does the bad get wiped out by the good. Samuel Morse was anti-Immigran...
A Day Without Making a New Friend Is A Day Wasted
June 03, 2017 03:42 - 5 minutesSadly, it is far easier to think of something utterly destructive to do which will ruin your life than it is to come up with something that will transform your life for the better. But here is one thing that you can start doing right away which will bring more unforeseen benefits into your life than you can imagine: Connect more deeply with more people. And I do not mean on Facebook!! Finding new friends and nurturing old ones is good for your health, for your family life and for your fina...
Sex & Money: How 4 Revolutions Shaped Our World
May 26, 2017 22:55 - 2 hoursA woman has the right to tell a man who wants something from her, “No!” But a baker or photographer has no right to say “No!” to certain people who want something from them. Any pleasure that two or more consenting adults wish to take from one another’s bodies is perfectly acceptable. However, society gets very involved critiquing and sanctioning two consenting adults who choose certain economic transactions. Why is sex always fine whereas money is usually very not fine? We used to have...
Who Does The Left Hate More: Moslem Jihadists or Successful Bus. Men Attracted to Beautiful Women?
May 26, 2017 22:55 - 4 minutesProsecutors frequently build their reputations prosecuting business professionals and their companies. Often no wrongdoing is uncovered but by then it is too late. On college campuses women with morning-after regret frequently charge last night’s paramour with rape. Reputations ruined and careers destroyed. There is no presumption of innocence for business or for men in general. Our elitists, rulers and betters are waging war against the private sector institutions that create prosperity...
Art Galleries, Collectors, & Critics Gush Over The Scribbles & Splashes of Toddlers & Gorillas.
May 19, 2017 20:10 - 1 hourDon’t you sometimes feel you’re living through Alice in Wonderland? The things you once thought of as obviously true are no longer seen that way. Males can be females; making money equals taking money; profit is the same as plunder; America is an evil country but Sudan is good; and champions of cultures based on barbarism, superstition, tribalism and fanaticism lay guilt trips on Western civilization. What is going on? Communism/socialism/liberalism/progressivism are obliterating objectiv...
The Simplest & Most Accurate Distinction Between Liberalism and Conservatism.
May 19, 2017 20:10 - 6 minutesWhen people ask you to explain the difference between liberalism and conservatism, what do you say? If you start talking of size of government, taxation, etc., you sound wonkish and most people just tune you out. This week’s show offers a better solution. Liberalism loathes, detests, reviles and rejects objective reality. Women can be men and the other way around. Human nature? What’s that? Maternity leave for men? Why not? Government should bail out non-profitable companies if they make ...
50 Shades of Money or Marriage And Careers or Kids.
May 12, 2017 22:16 - 1 hourWould you refuse to date someone with poor credit? If you’re a single woman, the answer is likely to be yes. And you’d be right! If you’re a single man, surveys show you probably don’t much care. And you’d be right too. In this show I explain why. Susan Lapin joins me to discuss childlessness and I step into dangerous territory when I speculate on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey. The Mommy Wars and how childless female workers resent moms at work. Maternity leave for everyone, not jus...
Believing Men & Women Identical Might Be Bad For Your Heart
May 12, 2017 22:15 - 6 minutesYour 50 year-old male doctor has had, on average, nearly double the clinical experience than a female doctor of the same age. Most work 3 day weeks to men’s 5 or 6 day work weeks. Same goes for dentists and lawyers. Given that most professional competence is won not at school, but at work, explain why having a female cardiologist is a good idea? Just askin’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Help Nature-Worshipping Fanatics by Purchasing Your Infidelity Offsets Here—
May 04, 2017 21:10 - 1 hourCarbon Offsets is a silly scam that allows environmental sinners like Al Gore & and hypocrites like Leonardo DiCaprio to feel virtuous by paying others to do good. It’s a modern example of the Church selling indulgences back in the Middle Ages. So in that spirit, we now invite sinners who corrupt the land with concupiscence, adulterous affairs and marital betrayal to purchase infidelity offsets. I will arrange for part of your payment to go to support the good behavior of chaste and celiba...
International Celebration of Communism:---Earth Day!
May 04, 2017 21:10 - 4 minutesWhy did Senator Gaylord Nelson and his comrades pick April 22nd 1970, the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin? Why were many speakers and supporters of the first Earth Day known communists? Why do so many positions of environmentalists and climate change fanatics hurt the economic and military interests of the United States? It’s all quite simple. Allow me to explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Core Curriculum For California College Cretins--Bullying
April 28, 2017 19:21 - 1 hourThis past Tuesday night I was brought to a campus near San Francisco to deliver a lecture entitled “Making Money is Moral”. The program was put on by the outstanding Young America’s Foundation who own and run President Reagan’s ranch near Santa Barbara where they put on fantastic programs for school and college young people. I got about a third through the speech before the protestors got themselves sufficiently organized to begin their disruption. You know how it can be a little scary whe...
Our 3 most powerful appetites: food, sex, and money
April 28, 2017 19:18 - 5 minutesIf we were souls without bodies, we’d have no appetites. If we were bodies without souls we’d have no worries. But we have both so we may as well understand how these three appetites really work. Just think, if everybody could control them, no obesity, no illegitimacy, less crime, and a thriving economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Money, Money, Money, Must Be Funny
April 22, 2017 14:06 - 56 minutes“…In the rich man’s world.” So sang ABBA and so another generation of young music lovers was corrupted. Obviously that rich man took it from all those who are now poor as a result. By misleading an entire generation into believing that the world is all physical/material, money is transformed into something evil with which only government can be trusted. Instead of a vehicle for individual independence, money (Just like guns) is bad for ordinary private citizens to own. Presenting a presc...
Always Sunny In The Rich Man’s World
April 22, 2017 14:03 - 5 minutesLike pirates buying their way back into polite society by building a church, today anyone who has made a few dollars is expected to purchase penitence by ‘giving back to society’ regardless of what this says the donor was doing to society while making his money in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Never Let That Niagara-Like Torrent of Feelings Overwhelm Your Good Sense
April 14, 2017 21:23 - 1 hourI 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”. Affairs begin because “I feel so wonderful when I’m with her”. Businesses fail when one perso...
Not In The Mood? Who Cares? Certainly Not Your Rabbi.
April 14, 2017 21:10 - 5 minutesIsn’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 your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Didn’t Save the Russians, the Chinese, or the Tutsis But We Are Obliged to Save the Syrians?
April 07, 2017 22:32 - 1 hourHow 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 the path of the Erie Canal. This 363 mile canal built in only 8 years (1817-1825) included 83 l...
Why Does Our Government Feel More Compassion for Syrians Than It Does For Americans?
April 07, 2017 22:27 - 5 minutesLike 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 Evil Pathology Uniting People Who Respect Race With Those Who Mock Marriage
March 31, 2017 20:09 - 1 hourThe 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 been infected by the virus of materialism which makes its victims see things weirdly. This contagi...