Rabbi Daniel Lapin

America’s bizarre distinctions in how two human appetites are treated—sex and money.  With sex, anything that two consenting adults chose to do is viewed as nobody else’s business. Anything at all!  With money, even if two consenting adults agree to a certain job at a specific hourly rate, the government steps in to insist that employer must pay employee a minimum amount.  With sex, if one party decides not to deliver to another, not only is that fine but the other, the ‘buying’ party can be destroyed for even suggesting the deal to the reluctant ‘seller’.  With money, if one party, say, a baker, decides not to deliver to another party, the government steps in and punishes the reluctant seller.  Why hotel rooms in liberal cities are so expensive. What did Frank Sinatra/Ava Gardner, Clark Gable/Carole Lombard & Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn have in common? School sex-ed, yes but gun-ed, no? Four revolutions that changed our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your spouse asks you to stop doing something. Your boss at work asks you to start doing something. You kid asks you why you’re doing something. Wouldn’t it be great to come back with the right answer every time? The answer that, a day later you still admire rather than the answer you think of a day later and wish you’d given. How do you react wisely off the cuff? By arming yourself with the right basic beliefs. But when you start off with a wrong basic belief you end up making bad intuitive decisions in all the many daily circumstance. Your rabbi equips you with an invaluable tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A reasoned analysis of the Florida school shooting.  Yes, there is a way to stop these tragedies, but, no, it has nothing to do with guns.  What percentage of the hundreds of people you encounter every day are really crazy?  How many so-called “homeless” are mentally imbalanced?  Do you know why they are not being cared for in medical facilities where they would be safe—and so would we?  Do you know any families being torn apart by having to struggle with a deeply troubled teenager all alone?  Is the SCOTUS ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973 connected  in any way to the Parkland, Florida school shooting?  Why did Hitler use precious resources killing 3 million Jews in Poland in 1942 while his eastern front was crumbling at Leningrad?  Could you protect your family from a violent home invader? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does Socialism exercise an almost irresistible appeal to secular people?  Why are intellectuals, academics, bureaucrats, career-politicians and others drawn so powerfully to, liberalism, progressivism, well, actually to Socialism?  We cannot combat what we don’t understand.  We cannot defeat what we cannot get a hold of.  Let’s probe the real roots of the problem.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grand Coulee Dam.  Air-conditioning.   Hoover Dam.  Empire State Building.  Over 3 million miles of highway.  Golden Gate Bridge.  Verrazano Bridge.  Holland Tunnel.  George Washington Bridge.  Automatic transmissions.  Commercial jet travel. Electric refrigerators.  That and more took place 1900-1960.   Since then…?  Almost nothing!  What! Why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there a scientific test for honesty?  The most important organ for making money (If you’re not a swimsuit model!)  Do identical twins have same or different fingerprints?  The power of optimism in financial interactions.  Do you know what medical school your doctor attended; do you know if he attended medical school at all?  The danger of fear and how to get rid of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything we think we know about Mutiny on the Bounty is a lie!  3 Hollywood movies distorted the truth.  The 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great work of art nourishing our higher selves with serious thoughts about good and evil, marriage and morality, hypocrisy and nobility, the inevitability of consequences and yes, adultery.  The 1995 movie The Scarlet Letter starring Demi Moore has as much to do with the book as the movie Free Willy has to do with Moby Dick, another great American novel written by Herman Melville at the same time as The Scarlet Letter.  And while we’re on the topic of books and animals, I tell you something you don’t know about The Life of Pi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Communicating effectively produces wonderful results in romantic, business & social interactions.  Only in politics is the reverse tolerated. Here’s what a politician would call a spade: “It’s a one person operated, foot-powered implement of ligno metallic composition designated primarily though by no means exclusively for use in agricultural, horticultural, & constructional activities for purposes of carrying out such excavational tasks as may  be designated by supervisory grades.”  Why I would eliminate and ban the use of these meaningless slurs: Anti-Semite, Homophobe, Racist, Sexist, & Capitalist. My answer to a young friend’s worry that “Trump will get us into a war.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Masturbation, the art of selfishness.   Why is the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, so over decorated?    Monogrammed towels?  Soap shaped like seashells?  Really?  Why are we so embarrassed about a perfectly natural bodily function like emptying our bowels?  What does relieving oneself have to do with masturbation?   Why did Onan in the Bible have to die?  If a woman never marries, is she better off with a child or without?  Why are welfare recipients not the most patriotic and appreciative citizens?  How to avoid all awkwardness in the masturbation conversation with teenagers.  Why did the great, great, grandmother of King David dress up as a prostitute?  Why did her former father-in-law not recognize her?  No it won’t grow hair on your hands or make you blind, but it will……. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mrs. Lapin and I were offered a guided tour of the new Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.  We accepted, planning on spending an hour there.  We were confident that an hour would more than suffice.  We know the Bible, right?  We frequently visit Israel.  We’ve already seen one too many archeological artifacts.  Gosh, was I wrong! We spent five hours there.  They couldn’t get rid of us. And we are eagerly planning our next visit; sooner rather than later.  How often is your rabbi speechless?  Ridiculous, right?  But I was lost for words.  The museum is deeply moving for any American regardless of faith and profoundly impactful for any sentient human being.  In this show, I describe what we saw and I place it in cultural context in terms of the socio-political canyon that cuts through our American culture.  This is an immensely significant addition to our nation and I feel indebted to the Green family, creators of Hobby Lobby whose generosity and vision made it possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi

People say, “I’m not religious but I’m spiritual”.  What does that really mean?  What is spiritual reality?  Why do prostitutes still prosper in the era of Tinder with quick and free hook-ups?  Why are so many mental health professionals secular when every indication is that spiritual reality is a powerful factor in mental rehab?  The role of Darwin, Freud, and Marx at the start of the 1900s.  My close encounter with a real, live African lion. Definitions of spiritual and physical and how many of the joys in your life depend upon each? The exact location of heaven.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to overcome  the resistance that obstructs every attempt to improve our lives, New Year resolutions notwithstanding.   Health & weight loss; alcohol, drugs, & other addictions, career advance, debt reduction and almost everything else that involves us in a struggle pitting our higher selves and our betterment against our lower desires, our laziness, and our lethargy.  Learn the lesson from a famous musician & hear him play.  Developing a ripped body without effort through electro-muscle stimulation. Reviewing President Trump’s first year. Judeo-Christian religions liberate; secular liberalism restrains and restricts.  Sexual harassment between 1967 and 2017.  A secretary was not a toy, but is she now?  And one of the best ways for a young woman to get ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My polite response to the rude people who accosted me for driving a fuel-hungry, twelve cylinder automobile.  Why we circumcise.  The higher and holy purpose of energy and how the Left has it all wrong.  What Chanukah lights have to do with foreskins.  Why airplane engines burn oil not coal like older railway locomotives.  The real purpose of aging and why not to dye your hair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does the Canadian town of Halifax send Boston a fifty-foot Christmas tree every year?  Why have great senators of the past like Hiram Revels of Mississippi, Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, & Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson of Washington been replaced with the clowns, creeps, crooks and cranks in Congress today?   Want to hear a fantastic 100 year-old poem answering this question?  The bullying, grabbing, groping, and touching of women (as well as of themselves) by disgraced men isn’t masculine at all—it’s pathetic.  Masculinity is what most women yearn to surrender themselves to. It follows that males who seize what no woman wishes to grant is the very opposite of masculine.  It is their behavior that is appalling not their masculinity.  The culprit is their character, not their chromosomes.  President Trump-Jerusalem Hero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Why do politicians and the intellectual elite hate successful business professionals, but they prostrate themselves at the feet of super-wealthy stars of sports and entertainment?  What can we learn from the 1991 movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance?  Who really owns a business, stakeholders or shareholders?  Where does the ubiquitous dollar $$$ sign come from?  As long as employees feel fulfilled, expenses can grow faster than revenue – True or False?  Why you should not think of your spouse as your ‘best friend’.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54 Years ago this week, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas underwent the most momentous and historic 48 hours ever undergone by an American hospital.    The hospital was resilient enough to endure it and continue functioning.   Resilience is indispensable for any person, family, or business that hopes to survive.    When blows of fate fall, those who are resilient absorb those blows and bounce back.  They are buffeted and bent by the storm winds but not broken.  They spring back because they possess resilience.  What is the secret of resilience?     That is what you will know by the end of this short Thanksgiving show.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the body’s Divine Design reveals the true nature of human sexuality and the real nature of masculine and feminine.  The simple anatomical device which would render Viagra obsolete and bankrupt Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.  Widely accepted scientific theories that turned out to be huge mistakes.  Are modern theories of sexuality possibly all dreadfully wrong?  Be married to the only person you’ve ever had sex with?  Really?  Could TV hits like Friends, Seinfeld, Big Bang Theory and others really be wrong about sex?  Oops!  Has your wife just cut her hair short? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism:  These are ALL creations of the LEFT and all strip individual freedom and responsibility while they promote governmental tyranny.  In this show I describe what lies at the RIGHT end of the spectrum. The Left allies with Islamic Fundamentalism which only Israel has even a clue of how to defeat.  Hint: Follow the money.  I interview the author of Harpoon--Inside The Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters.  Wild  inside details of under-cover, special ops that  Israel’s Mossad employs against Islamic killers, their bankers and their bagmen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Secular Fundamentalist pundits in print and TV don’t know why Saipov the Slaughterer mowed down 8 Manhattanites with his truck last Tuesday.  “Why, oh why, would he have done it?”  they cry in mystified confusion.  It certainly can’t be because of his religion.  Turns out that knowing your opponent’s central core principles is a huge advantage whether you’re dealing with your children, a business transaction or terrorists.  In the mid-20th century, there wasn’t enough space in the world for both Nazis and Jews. Now, early in the 21st, there’s not enough space for both Moslems and Christians. And Jews?  In this show I reveal their role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show is a lecture I delivered a few days ago to a terrific organization of Christian business professionals who collaborate on developing their businesses according to Biblical principles.  There are many such organizations in the United States and I have been privileged to speak for quite a few but this one, Kingdom Chamber of Commerce is one of my favorites.  I discuss the significance of change in business, now to embrace it, exploit it, and profit from it.  The permanent principles I teach apply equally to employees and homemakers as they do to entrepreneurs and executives.  I do hope you enjoy it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices