Rabbi Daniel Lapin

One bad idea can sabotage all the solid achievements for which you've worked so hard. A solid resolution for 2024 is to identify and eliminate the bad ideas that are threatening your success in all your 5Fs. Read about this useful tool for making the new year a better year than last year. It's called Chart Your Course  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/chart-your-course-book-video-bundle/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I prefer a sacred Christmas to a secular Christmas. Secularism is not just a fair way to organize a pluralistic society. It exerts a malign influence on civilization. In ways you can't imagine.  A guy is really unhappy because his wife lunches with a male colleague a couple of times a week. Is his bank account relevant to this story?  Why platonic friendships between men and women between the ages of 15 and 70 never work. Is an emotional affair a thing? What should the unhappy guy do? Remember Mel Gibson's Braveheart? It explains one of the most important aspects of Chanuka. What were you doing between the ages of 13 and 23? Is it time for you to start making only wise decisions in the important areas of your life? If so, read this  https://a.co/d/cX2lpPq Do you want your spiritual schematic to be about abundance or shortage? There are real life consequences to how you answer that question. Why communism hates both marriage and private property. Other secrets about the interactions between marriage and money.

Do you know the really unpopular message of Chanuka? That's right, it has something to do with burning oil. Why the Fossil Fuel vision seems to drag along a vision of shortage, limits, and ultimately poverty. Predictions of running out of coal and oil go back to the 19th century and they've all been wrong. Why do they keep making them? It's almost as if they WANT to run out of energy. What's going on? Is it time for you to start making only wise decisions in the important areas of your life? If so, read this  https://a.co/d/cX2lpPq Do you want your spiritual schematic to be about abundance or shortage? There are real life consequences to how you answer that question.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many mistakenly believe that the proliferation of regulations and laws are evidence of a society's sophistication and advance. In reality, that is like saying that all the medications in an old man's medicine chest are evidence of his good health. Preserving a functioning family or a successful society is hard and mostly depends on a rare array of tools. In this show, your rabbi provides a guide to those tools. Are you thinking about making next year different from last year? Here is a very useful resource to look into:  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/chart-your-course-e-book-video-bundle/ Useful insights into clothing. Lessons for your life from McDonalds and General Motors. The hidden impact of vasectomies. Failures of feminism and artificial intelligence.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want a good life? Do you know what a good life means? What do you have to do in order to achieve a good life? How Germany defeated France in only six weeks in early 1940. Why Mercedes and BMW are more reliable cars than Peugot and Citroën. What this teaches us about making our lives good. Especially connection between money and marriage. What is purpose of physical intimacy: pleasure or procreation? Both? Why must the life-enhancing energy we call family derive from this elemental male female connection? His wife concealed her half million dollar trust fund from him. Can he trust her? Can she trust him? Should she? Read about The Holistic You, the ultimate guide to the Good Life: Click: https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/the-holistic-you-hardcover/    What happens to a marriage when one spouse wins the lottery? Does money impact the quality of intimacy?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 savagry of October 7th. Why they die in Gaza. What happened to the Red Cross and the kidnapped Jews in the dark Gazan tunnels.Political power today is achieved by appeals to the heart not the head. How democracy leads to tyranny. But in all of this, live a good life by focusing on your 5Fs and study the roadmap to a good life, The Holistic You.  https://a.co/d/fGCL0sl  Because regardless of the storms that swirl around the borders of your life, you can rise and prosper by retaining a laser-like focus on your 5 Fs.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 society? Why do secular/socialistic regimes never endure for very long? Read about Scrolling Through Scripture and listen to a lesson for free now!  https://tinyurl.com/43z9e23e  Discover the connection between a country’s legal system and its underlying moral matrix.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, romance, and socially that will come back and bite you—if they haven’t already done so. Morality is not like a toddler learning to walk. Gaining one is not automatic. A functioning morality matrix is like calculus, cooking or car repair. Unless you make the effort to acquire them, you won’t have them. There are more than one morality matrix available. Did you ever deliberately and purposefully choose yours? Do you and your spouse share a morality matrix? If not, God help you! Your morality matrix is not confined to your faith. How well you are doing with Family, Finances, and Friendships has much to do with the exist

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 tried to conquer Europe and turn it into part of the Moslem world? Why did Gazans in 2005 destroy millions of panes of glass? Why did the Nazis in 1938 destroy millions of panes of glass? Why did rioters, thugs and looters (Sorry, I meant to say “protestors”) in 2020 destroy millions of panes of glass in American cities? The deeper and inescapable truth about this Clash of Destiny https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/clash-of-destiny-instant-download/   Is it true that violence never solves anything? Where did civilization come from?  Finally, understand the distinction between Civilization and Barbarism in terms of

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 economy withstand a mobilization of over a quarter million reservists? The Israel Defense Force in some cases took five hours to get to besieged communities suffering pogroms and massacres such as haven’t been seen since the Nazis attempted genocide in World War 2.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 meteoric. Susan Lapin and I are exuberantly thrilled with our new book, The Holistic You. We’ve been working on it for over three years. It’s now finally available. Find out more about our new book, The Holistic You here https://a.co/d/af1PtkN  Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life. No! Happy Warriors are captains of their fates. Happy Warriors are not passive and are never victims. The Happy Warriors plans his life and then lives his plan. Become a Happy Warrior today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Most of what she stood for and espoused we considered, and still do, dangerous and destructive drivel but she was always eloquent and coherent. However, we discovered some highly unusual aspects to this gutsy woman and we invited her to chat with us on this show. She graciously accepted and we greatly enjoyed the result. Now you can too. Our best book ever: The Holistic You Integrating Your Family, Finances, Friendships, Faith, and Fitness. Read about it here https://a.co/d/gx9YFF1   Naomi Wolf is no tennis ball floating down the gutter of life. Don’t you be one.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a

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 easier to become a man or a woman. Explore the new book about the 5Fs The Holistic You here https://a.co/d/af1PtkN Why do we say Man Up but not Woman Up? Which world leaders are masculine and which feminine? Which are more successful? What happens to women on a dangerous desert island if there are no men? What happens to men isolated without women? Remember when men refrained from cursing if girls were around?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 things you could be doing. In today’s show we reveal the solution to the paradox. Read more about the incredibly effective Financial Prosperity Collection here:  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/financial-prosperity-collection?seg_id=01GD41TEC123FMDH3CT92WHQ9D.12051.1693537083366 For the first time, I interview the charismatic creator of the Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed. He changed American politics forever and today he tells me his views on the 2024 presidential election. Freedom is just another word for….Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life. Instead they grab life and find joy.  Learn

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 without recycling, we’re doomed because of shortage. You will buy a smaller car than you really want, not because you can’t afford anything else but because you believe we are short of oil and energy. You will keep your summer air conditioner set too high for comfort to save electricity. That is only part of what catching the shortage virus can do to your life. The worst part is that you make less money than you should and can.  Fight financial shortage by learning about the Financial Prosperity Collection here:  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/financial-prosperity-collection?seg_id=01GD41TEC123FMDH3CT92WHQ9D.12051.1

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 bring in a gardener, a landscaper, and a tree specialist to improve our yard but keeping the gate locked so none of the workers can enter. Opening the portal to self-improvement is what Mussar is all about and my guest on this show, Ruchi Korval is a specialist in the ancient Jewish practice of Mussar. This is her book  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/soul-construction/ Happy Warriors will like her take on Barbie the movie. Can you improve the world by improving yourself? Must you forgive yourself before forgiving others? Happy Warriors are not tennis balls floating down the gutter of life.  Learn more about your a

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 just might be a Reality Denier. Do you feel that governments can spend whatever they like because they can always print more money? You might just be a Reality Denier. Ryan might or might not be a Reality Denier but he is a young man who wrote me explaining why he has chosen to keep women out of his life. Is Ryan going to become a priest? Not even close. Ryan doesn’t like the women he meets on the Internet dating site, Tinder. His alternative is celibacy, and he thinks that is just fine. I answer Ryan on this show. Ryan would find useful life perspectives here.  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/buried-treasure/  S

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 discipline is than motivation. The importance of contracts and how Dubai handles foreigners.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-child relationships. The obvious results are fewer people living in families, more dependency on government, more crime, dysfunctional bureaucracies, lowered lifestyles and increased poverty, more mental illness, and a declining society. Why would they do that? To remain in power of course, silly. Surely you knew that. As many as 1 in 4 American adults are estranged from a parent. I explain whether there is more estrangement from fathers or from mothers and why. The most popular tattoo in prison and why. Exactly why boys raised by moms married to dads stay out of jail. Become a Happy Warrior. Find out more https://w