Rabbi Daniel Lapin

That big red button near my steering wheel is marked START. It is worth studying. We nearly always know what our goal is; what we wish to achieve. We may even have a sense of what the journey has to be. But few of us recognize the power of The Start. Jeff Bezos knows exactly when he pressed the start button for his enterprise-Amazon. Do you? Make a start on your growth plan and join all the other Happy Warriors in the Happy Warrior community https://www.wehappywarriors.com/ The guys who launched Google; they know exactly when they pressed their start button. Do you? A START is like a runner's starting blocks, something to push against and launch yourself, hurtling into high speed. I know a chap who can't wait to have a baby. He's even building a beautiful hardwood crib for his future baby. He loves babies. But he doesn't love women; or a particular woman. He's never going to have a baby--he can't press START. A start is a commitment which many of us guys try to avoid. But no start means no commitment which means no destination and no success. The Bible begins "In the beginning...". Have you prepared your beginning; your START?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billions of Bibles. Who cares? Why reading parts of the Bible can really help you, even if you don't believe in God. How does knowing why Moses and Joshua took off their shoes help your career?  How many actions did you take today that were motivated one hundred percent by spiritual rather than physical causes? (Clue: Clothing.) In 1993 all the smart elites knew that the entire world, every country, would adopt the American model of democratic liberalism. Soon, countries like Iran, Somalia, and Libya proved them quite wrong. What caused their mistake? Join our Happy Warrior community  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/  How encouraging group identities based on race, class, and gender helps government seize and retain full control of a population. Defend your unique individuality, it is the key to your freedom.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do people make choices and decisions? Are we always rational? The value of all the 5 Fs and how one of them in particular helps us understand others (and ourselves). The Father Brown detective mysteries. Other mysteries like why the same people who oppose executing murderers also want more freedom to execute the unborn. They claim to want women to be able to choose but only if they choose career over marriage and family. The five fundamentals that define civilization. The five signs of impending extinction of a society. What does this say about your society? Why have so few politicians ever told you that confiscatory rates of taxation are immoral? He told me that Jews don't know how to fight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 3 ways of responding to the biological imperative of reproduction; Abdication, Animalism, Civilizational. What the creator of the twenty year-old, influential HBO television show S*x and the City said about having children. Is the Hebrew Bible a practical political and sociological manual or a theological text? Your son might be your most valuable investment. (What about your daughter? Covered in the bonus podcast for Happy Warriors) By what age is your son's character, set of values, and spiritual matrix formed? Who is really raising your son and implanting that spiritual matrix? You and your spouse? The GIC your son attends? The entertainment he consumes? Or you? Join our Happy Warrior community  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/  The ten most destructive ideas that the state, its agents, and the culture are implanting in your son's brain and how to counter them.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The big new thing in American business is the meteoric increase in the number of employees taking off days for mental health. Sounds like a good thing, right? Seems to afflict mostly the under 35 crowd. There is also a monumental increase in conversation about mental illness. A frightening large proportion of people are taking psychiatric medication in numbers never before seen. So, is mental disease on the increase? Or are normal challenges of a busy normal life being pathologized into mental disease? Especially since there is virtually no mental disorder with any detectable biological marker. Different doctors--different diagnoses and different treatment. Unbelievably large numbers of school boys are taking stimulants like Ritalin or Aderall. Does this reflect growing medical sophistication or a terrible wrong turn. What does your body have to do with all this? What does your soul have to do with all this? Join all the other Happy Warriors in the Happy Warrior community https://www.wehappywarriors.com/    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being self-disciplined and courageous are not just right things for men to do they also make men stronger. How some men on dating apps employ similar strategies of deception to spiders. Why Stockholm Syndrome happens and why women are slightly more impacted than men. In spite of what they may tell you, women are really really not attracted to men who sob in self-pity. They may say they admire it, they may say they respect it. But they are not attracted to it.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four questions asked by young women and the terrible answers they got. My parents resent the guy I have been dating for 4 years. My boyfriend is 5 years older than I and I am now 21. My parents are judging him because his parents divorced. That is not his fault. The old fashioned way I was raised makes me feel guilt whenever I have a bit of fun. I am not a slut; how do I stop feeling like one? I love my boyfriend very deeply. I am 17 and a virgin. I am not sure about how far to go but I don't want my boyfriend to leave me. Your rabbi analyzes the answers these sad young women are given and the pathos their gushing gratitude to the destructive hosts evokes.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What woman is attracted to a man less powerful than she is? What country obeys another country less powerful than it is? Power = Prosperity + Prestige. Why America has not won a war since World War 2. What the Biden administration wants as the end play in the Israel Hamas war. Olympic male boxers defeating females and why woke people almost inevitably reject Judeo-Christian Bible based values. Where are the Hassidic Jewish progressives or the devout Evangelical Christian progressives? Why do they not exist?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know how to define love? Well, we take a crack at it in this show and learn valuable lessons on how to love. Love is not a feeling--it is an action. Learn how to do it and you can surround your life with the joy of love. We examine war. Why is it that America places few restrictions upon Ukraine which stands no chance of defeating Russia while placing severe restrictions upon Israel that deny it the victory it could almost certainly win? Why is it that after World War 2, the last war that the United States won, America seems to have lost the will to win? What does this portend for the future?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do far more men go bald than women? Why do far more men go bungee jumping than women? Why do extreme sports attract far more men than women? Why are death defying (and sometimes, death imposing) heroics more the province of men than women? All this and more is explained by your rabbi in today's show. Working out, weightlifting, and running, demanding more and more from our bodies, is thrilling and satisfying; how about doing the same with our souls? You might want to read more here https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/soul-construction/ It's been two and a half weeks since our beautiful second young daughter returned to God's embrace. I reveal how I am coping and what I most miss. Hair, there, and everywhere. How you can know that men and women are not interchangeable.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices