Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Rabbi 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

President 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 if the West deteriorates and dies, it is not only bad for you and me,  it is even worse for millions of other human beings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ayn 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 works and how male/female relationships work. Teach them well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’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 redistribution but loving the concept of the family? It seems impossible. Let’s listen to discover why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It 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

Why 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 negative also think marriage is only one way, and not the best way, to organize society?  Are these all coincidences or is there some hidden secret force guiding it all? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’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

In 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 those words around is the equivalent of a Guantanamo detainee flinging a bag of his own feces at an American officer. I explain how the world REALLY works, even in these darker corners. So, remember, always choose LIFE!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I 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

Another 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It 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

Why 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 married to one another? Yes, and what is more most men and women thrive better in marriage than they would in alternative living arrangements. People know better than to defy physical laws yet they often assume spiritual laws are less immutable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When 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

China 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 jobs leaving. And remember, nobody can make you do anything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether 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

This 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 cigarettes and a large consumption of alcohol? American Alliance of Jews and Christianswww.RabbiDanielLapin.com Ancient Jewish Wisdom TV Show http://www.tct.tv/watch-tct/on-demand-ajw Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rabbi-daniel-lapin-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

t’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 unmarried. Marriage makes all the difference.American Alliance of Jews and Christianswww.RabbiDanielLapin.com Ancient Jewish Wisdom TV Show http://www.tct.tv/watch-tct/on-demand-ajw Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rabbi-daniel-lapin-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only 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-Immigrant. He was also pro-slavery. And he painted beautiful pictures and changed the world with his invention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sadly, 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 finances. Sounds easy but like baking, bookkeeping and ballet, it helps to know just how to do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices