Rabbi Daniel Lapin

I’ve spoken about the kinds of men that women should seek and avoid but now, the reverse.   Do you know why, in the romance department, Cinderella is a little more true-to-life than Aladdin?  Guys, should you worry if your wife’s boss is rich and good-looking?  How about if he’s just rich?  What do you do if your wife decides she doesn’t want to work but would rather stay home with your babies?  What about if she does want to work but wants you to stay home with the babies?  Are her looks important?  Matrimonial misery versus connubial contentment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How a country’s economy controls its military abilities.  The most important rule you’ve heard today: Reality is more accurately depicted by a video than by a snapshot.  Hitler wasn’t a lunatic-at least not at first.  His willingness to make war against England was quite logical.  This show explains why.  It also explains why China could one day become a real threat to America while Russia’s population and economy make it all but incapable of seriously imperiling any American interests.  Genuine education vs inflated qualifications and meaningless degrees in pseudo-subjects. Why citizens of Israel produce far more wealth than those of United Kingdom,  France, Japan, Italy, S. Korea and Taiwan.  Why many Americans fail to feel the boundary between verbal altercation and physical violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China threatens American military interests in South China Sea & American economic interests internationally. Iranian nuclear aggressiveness threatens American interests in the Middle East and elsewhere.  The illegal invasion of America by Middle Easterners, North Africans, and South and Central Americans threatens to overwhelm hospital emergency rooms, the welfare system, and the criminal justice system.    Yet to the Left, none of these threats matter.  Why is Russia the only danger they scream about hysterically?  Why was Russia no threat during the Obama years? Why did Justice and the FBI indict 12 lower level Russian hackers who will never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom exactly a few hours before President Trump met Mr. Putin in Finland?  The American intelligence community spied on candidate Donald Trump in 2016  and reported to President Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Of course, President Trump doesn’t trust them.  Why should he?   Why other countries’ “human-rights abuses” are none of America’s b

Does America really care about little children?  For more than 8 days, the world held its breath over the plight of 12 young boys stranded in a cave in Northern Thailand.  Why no equivalent empathy for the more than 50 young American boys murdered by their mothers’ boyfriends in only the first half of 2018?  Why no attempt to rescue the thousands of young children at mortal peril from their mothers’ live-in boyfriends? Why no comparable concern for the many children at risk of being killed in drive-by shootings?  So we obviously don’t care about kids. Why was Thailand different? If Black Lives Matter, why is it okay that fully 36% of all American abortions were had by black women—only 13% of all females?  The true but rare explanation.   High class doesn't mean 'rich'; it's living wisely that will make you and your children grow rich. Low class doesn't mean poor-it's living, for now, that condemns you & your kids to poverty. There are low-class wealthy folks & high class poor but they don't stay that way for

Why did the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the banks of the Mississippi in St Louis become The Gateway Arch National Park?  Is it because the Louisiana Purchase was really a horrid event?     The Left wants to progress constantly.  Socialism wants change for its own sake.   What would America have to look like for progressives to want to preserve?  If America acceded to all of the Left’s demands, would they then become conservatives?  Community Organizer &  Activist are not job titles that Lewis and Clark would have understood.  Politicians! Please stop changing our world and promising us Utopia.  We just need you to preserve the framework of predictability in our lives.      Jews and Christians both believe in a perfect Messianic tomorrow.  So do progressives; but there’s a big difference.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“You two have lovely hearts!” she told us.  But she couldn’t have known that.  What’s more, it’s irrelevant.  What mainly matters for people to be able to live & function together,  is not our hearts and thoughts but how we behave.  The motives of muggers & murderers don’t matter. Their behavior does. The reasons robbers rob and rapists rape is largely irrelevant.  But since you ask, I do happen to know why young men commit these hideous crimes. The answer is simple: Because they wanted to.  Being able to resist our wants and desires takes character and GIC’s abandoned teaching character half a century ago. Successful management of the Imperial Roman Empire, the Nazi’s 3rd Reich, and Islamic Jihad. 90% of violent crime committed by which 13% of the population?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is America headed up or down?  Is our discontent with our leaders because we see them working in their own interest, not in ours or just because we are deplorables?  Is our distrust in the FBI, the IRS, the Veterans Admin., the USPS, and Amtrak because of rampant bureaucratic & political corruption or just because we are paranoid?  Does our gloom and pessimism obscure all the wonderful indicators of progress—teachers now getting paid well, even the poor have smartphones and air-conditioning, inequality going down, life-expectancy up, and increasing numbers of young people choosing selfless careers in government.  The great Roman Empire is now nothing but ruins. Why America is not similarly headed to inevitable oblivion.  Don’t forget the cobra eggs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman.  Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt.”  I didn’t realize that when the great English adventure writer Rider Haggard wrote those words, he was quoting the German 18th century philosopher Hegel, of whom in general, I don’t think much but who did write these good words, “No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.”  Anyway, a husband and wife see far more of one another than a valet sees of his boss so with all that familiarity, how can they avoid developing contempt for one another?  The answer goes far beyond bathroom privacy and sexual restraint and provides an indispensable guide to marital happiness and durability. But it isn’t easy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this show, I enjoy a conversation with several listeners of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show. The only thing about hosting my shows on terrestrial radio that I miss is the conversation with callers. Otherwise, I prefer the up-and-coming podcast format. A few weeks ago I solicited advice from tech-savvy listeners about how to incorporate your calls and today’s show is the result of their generous guidance. We talk with callers about marital infidelity in marriages with higher earning wives, maintaining contact with business associates, the collective effect of pornography on the economy and other unexpected questions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most adults who have lived a little of life, and who’ve survived  its inevitable heartaches and tears, deeply desire to save their children from pain.  Chief among their legitimate concerns is premature sexualization.  What a blessing it would be if children could avoid the intense emotional roller coaster ride of serial infatuations.  (And don’t for a moment surrender responsibility by fallaciously claiming that such heartbreak is ‘just part of growing up’.  It isn’t.)  How about if kids could grow up seeing sexuality, not as a smash-and-grab raid for the goodies in the window, but as a first step towards love, commitment and marriage?  Maybe if we helped them understand the tight relationship between sex and money they’d be better equipped to face temptation.  Let’s help them see that unrestrained sexual indulgence erodes the self-discipline necessary for economic success.  The Bible just happens to be a superb textbook for really getting this link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

Do you really believe that all children born ought to have equal opportunities for successful lives?  Really?  And how far exactly do you want the government to go in order to guarantee this?  How should we guarantee the child of a drug-addicted homeless woman the same shot at success as a homeschooled child from a caring intact family?  Should parents be able to bequeath their assets to their children or is the death tax a moral attempt to provide all children the same shot at success?  Does a religious upbringing confer an unfair advantage on some children?  Why isn’t it just a little immoral to care so much more about one’s own children than about all the other children in society?  Why was Russia the first country to recognize the new State of Israel in May 1948?  Politics is nothing more than the practical application of our most deeply held moral values.  Is it wrong for prestigious universities to provide priority admission to children of alumni?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad

Three Mediterranean oceanfront countries with similar population densities, similar limited access, similar lack of natural resources. Yet, Malta and Gibraltar are thriving, happy places that attract throngs of tourists while Gaza is a dangerous and oppressive hell hole.  Why? (Clue: It has nothing to do with Israel)  Should countries that start wars and then lose them also lose territory?  How helpful is the United Nations? When groups of people succeed or when they fail, the causes are seldom external.  It is nearly always due to internal culture.  Kids who succeed at school usually do so because they come from a family culture that esteems education.  Whether young people grow into productive citizens building successful, independent lives or whether they become indolent, pleasure-seeking parasites depends only on culture. Why have Biblically-based countries and cultures been more successful than the rest?  Is the victim always virtuous or can you sometimes blame the victim?  Why are the Arabs in Abu Dhabi

Here’s an unexpected reversal:  It’s not so much that civilization developed water-borne sewerage systems as much as it’s that the cultural values of cleanliness that made it imperative for certain cultures to distance themselves  from their body waste that made civilization possible.  Toilets and sewage systems are more important than banks and art galleries and have to come first.  Cultures that sexualize the public area lose economic vitality.  Why premature sexualization of youngsters dooms them to poverty.  How a certain ‘redheaded slut’ contributed to the economic and military decline.  How they got enough water into New York in the 1840s.  Why it takes 3 or more people to sustain 2 elderly people even if the old-timers have retirement plans and pensions.  What distinguishes humans who are creators from humans who are consumers.  Why a prominent Stanford professor who got it all stupendously wrong fifty years ago is still teaching.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True systems like mathematics and physics have no internal contradictions. No law about addition or subtraction contradicts any other law about multiplication or division. No law about gravity or optics contradicts another law about motion or electricity.  Yet, repeatedly, the system known variously as liberalism/leftism/progressivism/secular fundamentalism/socialism reveals internal contradictions.  These intrinsic fault lines prove the failure of the unproven axioms known as liberalism/leftism/etc.  It is clear that it is no coherent system.  It clearly possesses no integrity at all.  Women-only organizations, yes; men-only clubs, no?  Really?  A vacation resort for women only. Makes sense, but why not one for men? Germany wants all immigrants but also wants to be pro-Israel. What if your immigrants hate Israel?  Why did so-called black leadership like Jesse Jackson support O.J. Simpson but not Bill Cosby?  Should it be illegal to deny the Holocaust?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc

Deep down, do you harbor a horrible little suspicion  that accepting most migrants or refugees, (whatever you want to call citizens of other countries who want to live in America) is more moral than building a wall or stopping them at the border in any other way?  Deep down do  you suspect that it is more moral to help beggars in Bombay and derelicts in Djibouti than helping  your own sister?   Do any of the 535 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 morally reprehensible.  Deep down they and their European counterparts believe that any South American has the right to live in Texas or Arizona and they believe that any MENA (Middle East North Africa) resident has the right to resid

3 vital questions to ask the man wanting to marry (or date) your daughter. One sure giveaway that he’s a loser.  Hint: It has to do with his mom.  A scary interview with an intensive care hospital nurse.   If civilization was left up to women, we’d still be living in grass huts.  What sexist male pig said that?   It’s also true that there are more female fetuses aborted than male. By their feminists moms!  Why so many LUGS (lesbians until graduation) but not so many HUGS.  Participation prizes-a national disgrace.  Why Bible says “Man must leave his father & mother… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What really distinguishes liberalism from conservatism.  Holding your own baby for the first time matters to all people in all places at all times.  Tennis and marshmallows do not.  Feeling hope as the sun rises is something all humans everywhere have always known.  Riding a rollercoaster ride is not. Ancient Jewish wisdom’s take on Scripture is that it covers everything that is applicable to all people everywhere, always.  Such a universal experience is laughter.  What is it and what makes some things funnier than others?  Why does so much comedy revolve around toilet functions, sexual functions and God?  Which is the better blueprint for families, companies, organizations and countries; kindness & compassion or law & discipline?  Do you know what is so funny about laughter in the Bible?  Who laughs more; liberals or conservatives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only about 20% of self-identifying American Jews believe in God and regard His Torah as authoritative.  And the rest?  What do they believe?  Is it true that some parts of American Jewry are viewed as the circumcised wing of the Democratic Party?  Why is so much American entertainment Jewishly flavored?  This is not true for movies and TV programing from England or France.  Is this observation anti-Semitic?  If so, call the Anti-Defamation League. Or the Southern Poverty Law Center. The truth about both these disturbing organizations. The sad story of the Christian girl who wasted seven of her best years dating two Jewish men (one after the other). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let your Rabbi describe to you a book in his library printed in 1936 and entitled “How to Make Love”.  Today’s worst insults and most indicting criticisms:  It’s old fashioned; it’s not modern; it’s archaic; it’s outdated; it’s so yesterday.  Many mistakenly believe that any idea not sufficiently progressive is automatically false and wrong.  But what if some old ideas are actually true and right?  Learning to judge the value of an idea regardless of its vintage.  And talking of older ideas with tremendous value, let’s teach our children to court rather than date.  Why the emotional roller-coaster of teenage and young adult dating does such a good job preparing for divorce.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it because the Jews convinced the Romans to crucify Jesus?  No; many who hate the Jews also hate Christianity.  Is it because of Jews like Saul Alinsky, George Soros, Bernie Sanders, Sigmund Freud, Herbert Marcuse and many others?  Partially, perhaps, but many who hate the Jews have never heard of these men. Why is it that Jew hatred seems to go hand-in-hand with communism, progressivism, socialism or whatever else you wish to label the Left. Soviet style socialism hated Jews. National Socialism (Nazi) hated Jews and modern progressive socialism as found on American university campuses hates Jews.  People and places who possess pride in economic growth and wealth creation get on well with Jews.  Hatred of the free-market and loathing of wide spread individual prosperity seems to go together with hating Jews.  The more left a country leans the more likely it is to hate Israel.  Today’s show explains this bizarre pattern that is so much a part of today’s geopolitics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m