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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: Formula For Creating Wealth
Date: 06/06/25 Length: 00:27:23
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Greetings, happy warriors and welcome to the rabbi Daniel Lapin show, where I your rabbi reveals how the world really works. As always, I deeply appreciate your participation in the rabbi Daniel Lapin show. What does participation actually mean? Well, it means that you listen and we really can make no greater investment in anything or in anyone than our time. And this is one of the reasons that we feel so close to our children. It's an almost inevitable human feeling, because we've invested so much in them, and we do feel close to things or people in whom we invest. And so closeness to children, sure. I mean, it's it was not only nine months of pregnancy where both husband and wife, both father and mother, are aware almost every waking moment that their life is about to change in spectacular, significant and wonderful ways. And they prepare for it, and they prepare the baby's cradle, and they and the way the mother eats and takes care of her health. And then with each passing day and week and month and year, you've got more and more invested in your child. And the result is you feel deeply, deeply committed to your child. So investing time is really significant, and you invest time by listening to the show, which is one of the reasons that I work very hard. I even sometimes have sleepless nights, making sure that what I deliver to you, and what I impart on the rabbi Daniel Lapin show is not going to waste your time. So today, what I want to tell you about is something that my coaching clients all learn early and quickly and well, and it's something that we spend a great deal of time working on, and we do the exercises to make sure that people wrap themselves around it. And that is that your wealth, your affluence, your ability to create money. And yes, you do create money. You don't take it, you make it. You don't take it making money. And that's a very important thing to understand. That's for another topic and another time. But in order to make money, you need other people, and you need to connect with other people and without that, it almost is doomed to failure. And one way that I detect a problem in this area is that people tend to over rely on emails. Let us imagine that you need to set up a sequence of appointments. And again this, this is something that impacts almost anybody in business, and who is in business, well, pretty much if you are not a tenured University professor, and you are not a judge on the United States Supreme Court, and you do not work for the post office. Well, then you're in business, and that means that you have to please other people. And one of the ways that you please other people is making sure that they know ways in which you can please them. We may call it advertising, but that has acquired an almost cynical overtone. So don't necessarily think of it as advertising, just think of it as letting people know how you can improve their lives. And one of the ways of doing that is you arrange meetings and you want to contact somebody, you want to say, I'd like to sit down with you and take half an hour of your time to explore ways in which I can be of service to you. Now there are better ways and worse ways of saying that, but that is the essential message. Now, some people try and accomplish that by means of emails, and the few who really succeed do it by means of phone calls. They do it by emails because. Yes. For one thing, the comfort level at communication is low. And when you're talking to somebody on the phone, you can't take three minutes or 90 seconds to figure out what the word is you're going to use next. You need a degree of fluency. But if you're writing an email, you can take as long as you like. There is also a tendency on the part of some of us to be a bit pessimistic and to be fearful and to feel that a phone call is going to result in rejection, which is going to be painful. And so an email, once you click on Send, it's gone, and nothing can touch you. You're bulletproof. You're impervious to anything, because nothing will happen until an email comes back or doesn't come back. But in a phone call, the person might say, why are you bothering me? I've told you before, I don't have any interest in what you're selling. Fine. Okay, it happens on to the next phone call. That's why there's 7 billion people in the world. It's not a disaster and and there's a whole way of learning how to do cold calling. Cold calling is hard. There's no question about it. It is very, very difficult. And almost everybody who has succeeded in business has spent at one time or another, usually earlier in their career, but not necessarily, some time cold calling or doing a variation of cold calling, and in other words, calling somebody up and letting them know how you can help them. They may be interested. They may not be interested. There are better ways of catching their attention. There are worse ways. There are better and more intriguing ways of engaging and there are less These are all techniques that need to be learned, and I'm not going to be covering them now, but what I am covering now is that if people lack an inherent liking of other people, it makes it difficult, and that's usually the reason people fall back on emails rather than on phone calls, because they don't actually like other people deeply, and they don't enjoy engaging with other people, and so an email is A more pain free, risk free way of doing it. And yet the reality is, business results from phone calls much more than from emails. It is a simple and almost self evident reality, so your wealth, your ability to make money depends on other people. It depends on knowing other people and liking other people and connecting with other people and collaborating and cooperating with other people. So is that that connection and that collaboration ends up creating something new. That is how business works, and I am now going to dive in to a little bit more of an understanding of exactly how this works. And before, before that, first of all, I want to make sure that those of you who want to get your hands on and wrap your heads around more of our material, more of ancient Jewish wisdom, and you're finding that you are obtaining all our free material on Rabbi Daniel lapin.com that's right at Rabbi Daniel lapin.com not only can you hear this podcast, but there's also a whole lot of other material. You can read Susan's musings, and you can get hold of thought tools, and you can listen to these or read them whatever you whatever you like, and you may discover however, that that isn't enough for you. And if you want to dive into deeper teachings and you want to access bonus content that is available to paying basic members. You can actually try it free for two weeks. So you just go to we happy warriors.com right? One, one, big, long word, we happy warriors.com and then you'll see a button marked, try basic membership. And you click on that, and away you go. You'll see if you like that, and if you do become a member, then you do get access on an ongoing basis to a whole lot more information. For instance,
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along with this podcast, there is a special bonus podcast. First for members, and this week, it's going to be about Israel's big basic mistake. And it was what, what is the big basic mistake that Israel is making right now? And I'll be discussing that accessible to you in the bonus for we happy warriors Members section. So do enjoy. I hope you will now recognizing that other human beings are the source of your wealth, rather than assuming that other people are competitors for your wealth is very counterintuitive. In other words, it's much more natural to view other people from beneath lowered brows, with suspicious eyes, assuming that everybody else is breathing your oxygen. This is very natural, very normal. And yet I think I can say with considerable certainty that if you are in any way interested in improving your financial destiny, I think it is safe to say that almost nobody succeeds until they overcome this particular problem, until they start seeing other people as the key to your success, not the obstacles as the key to your Success, not the competition to you for your success until it's possible to overcome that it is almost impossible to move forward into the bright, sunlit postures of financial security. How you view other people is critical, and some of you will be interested in where ancient Jewish wisdom derives and understands this material from others less so. So I won't spend a lot of time on it. I'll just spend a few moments telling you where this is sourced, and it's amazingly early. It's as early as chapter four in the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, by the way, just in passing, I'll tell you that I've always found it very interesting the extent to which secularism blinds people, the extent to which a viewpoint based in what I call the Religion, the belief system of secular fundamentalism, obstructs people from achievement and from understanding. And whereas a conventional Judeo Christian, Bible based vision, makes an enormous difference, is very, very helpful. And my own example, my own experiences on this are the number of times and I will confess I do this deliberately sometimes, because I just love seeing the experiment succeed every time. And that is that I tell people, I want to tell you something I learned from racing car driver Mario Andretti. And I'm again, I'm just giving the story, and I'm not going into the details now, so I'm not going to tell you right now what it was, but that's how I introduced and people, even people of deep secular conviction, lean forward in their chairs. They're eager to hear even if I say that, I am going to tell you something that I learned from the French philosopher Voltaire. People lean forward, even though Voltaire said very little in his entire life of any value. The you know, people lean forward in here. As soon as I say, I want to tell you something I learned from the Bible, I get blank looks, people slumping in their chests, their chins drop down. It's the most fascinating thing to me that there is so much of an antipathy. It was this, this enormous culture clash between the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a worldview that is determined to strip God from the landscape that is really one of the most dramatic aspects of what's going on in the world today. I'll talk about it just a little bit more in a moment. But at any rate, suffice it to say that I don't think any happy warriors, even if you're not biblically oriented, even if you are atheistically, and we have many atheistic listeners, I very much doubt that you would shut your ears to information simply because. As it originates in the Bible. But at any rate, here it is. And you may think you know the story of Cain and Abel, but actually you probably have never heard it told like this, Chapter Four of Genesis, verses eight through 12, four little verses, that's all you have to know. And it starts off saying Cain spoke to Abraham. Cain spoke to Abel in the field, and it doesn't say what he spoke about. And ancient Jewish wisdom goes on to explain that in the Bible you will not find any information or in that you already know, and you won't find any instructions to do things which you would do automatically. So if you are told, if the Bible were to say or somebody would tell you, the Bible said, make sure you eat regularly and make sure you take deep breaths of oxygen. No, the Bible doesn't tell you that, because people will do it intuitively. People eat and breathe just they do. So you don't need to be told that. If the Bible tells you something, it's because you may think you know it, but you don't actually. And so it doesn't tell us what a what a Cain said to Abel in the field, because it assumes we can figure it out for ourselves. And sure enough, about 2000 years ago, becoming worried that people were losing the ability to figure it out for themselves. The the the transmission of it began, and it was written down. And what it tells us is that it's pretty obvious. You know, basically, you got Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel and maybe some other siblings. It doesn't it's not important, but the population of the world is tiny, and Adam's getting old. And sure enough, Adam is going to die soon. So what Cain said to Abel is very straightforward, and that is, as the oldest son, I will inherit the world you, however may, of course, live wherever you like, all you have to do is pay me rent. That's what Cain said. Abel responded and said, on the contrary, we are two brothers. We are going to split the world. You will take half, and I will take off. And by the way, I would like the half that includes British Columbia. Okay, all right, sorry, I that that's not true. That wasn't I just dropped that part in because I love boating in the summer in British Columbia, but it Abel really just said, I want half the world.
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Cain said, I'm not going to tolerate you trying to take half the world away from me, because my name, Cain, like all Bible names, have very significant meanings. And Kane's name actually means material acquisition, getting stuff, owning stuff, having stuff, and somebody whose entire being is about owning stuff is not about to sit by while his brother strips him of half the world who's willing to take a loss of that magnitude, and so he does the only thing possibly he eliminates him. He kills him. And God said to Cain, okay, fine. So as a result, you get to get two punishments. Now, people who are familiar with the Bible, even usually think that the punishment is that you're going to be a wanderer around the world. Trouble is that's only one of the punishments. There are actually two. And God punishes Cain with a very quid pro quo, a tit for tat, a punishment to fit the crime. And God says to him, Cain, number one, you're going to be a wanderer. And number two, nothing you plant will ever yield a crop. Now you got to understand that what God has done to Cain, this is the most beautiful quid pro quo that you could imagine, because Cain thought that his wealth lay in land and that what he had to do was eliminate Abel, and therefore he'd be twice as wealthy. And God said, here's the punishment. You see, you think your wealth lies in land. All right. Well, land is good for two things, developing and agriculture. I include mining and agriculture, but mining is only useful if there are other people who find what you pull out of the earth to be useful. At least agriculture can keep you alive. And so God said, so fine. As far as development is concerned, you're going to be a wanderer, not going to let you stay in one place ever long enough to build a house or a building. And I'm. Two anything you plant won't grow, and you are quickly going to discover how dependent you are on other people. And that really is the essential message. You do need other people. And obviously the lesson to Cain was became very, very clear during the rest of his life. And very first thing he does is he builds a city. You think to yourself, well, who needs a city for four people or three people or five people on the planet? And you've got to understand what the significance of a city is when the Bible is understood through the lens of ancient Jewish wisdom. But essentially, to make it brief for now, Cain wanted to telegraph a message to God that he understood very clearly, the lesson he accepts his punishment and he realizes that wealth is comes from connection with other people, not eliminating other people, hugely important. And so he builds a city, and from that day to this the place where wealth is best created is in connection with other human beings, and cities are where that connection is best achieved, right? That's the concept, and it's one that lies solidly at the heart of ancient Jewish wisdom guides to financial prosperity. Anytime you'd like to dig a little more deeply into this idea of readjusting how you view other people, and how to move onwards from that adjustment where you now begin to realize that other people are the key to everything you want. And as the late great my friend Zig Ziglar used to say, if you help enough people get what they want, you'll get everything that you want. And really, there couldn't be a more succinct way of articulating exactly this idea. But it all starts off with learning to like other people, and learning to want to connect with other people, learning to enjoy communicating with other people. And yes, that means using the phone, not email, because whenever I get an email, I think to myself, You know what? This is? A boilerplate email. This person probably sent it to 75 other prospects, and he used artificial intelligence to personalize the first line of every paragraph. And I'm supposed to think it's genuine and authentic. A phone call is genuine. Authentic because the person is not talking to a whole lot of other people. He hasn't commoditized the relationship. He's talking to me, and he is reacting to what I say, and that's thrilling. It's connecting to another person on a deep, significant level. It's wonderful. And delving more deeply into this, I actually have, well, you know what? There'll be a free ebook called The called boost your income on rabbi, Daniel lapin.com so you may want to get yourself a copy of that. But that takes us more deeply into the practicalities of moving from here to there, where, where most of us, and I dare say, for a certain age group, this is becoming more applicable today than it used to be in years gone by. Because I do think that social media a lot of time in front of the screen, people entertaining themselves by sitting in front of a screen, people playing video games, very often at a remote distance from other people, very different, by the way, from a board game around the family dinner table, you know, on a Saturday night, very, very different experience. But I think it's possible that younger people are becoming more detached from other human beings. I think it's a sad but safe presumption that unless this trend is reversed, we can definitely expect an economic hit, we can definitely experience and anticipate a deterioration in economic circumstances because viable economy, money making, growing economy, wealth production, all of this depends entirely. Family on human beings, connecting with one another in a genuine and real kind of a way. So I'm sure if you are a normal human being, as we all are, then there are ways in which you can improve this in your life, because connecting genuinely with other people, whether it's on a family basis, a financial basis or a friendship basis, three of the five F's, the other two are fitness and faith. And if you are able to improve the way you connect with people, both in quantity and quality, if you can improve and increase the number of people you connect with, and the authenticity and depth of the connection your life improves. That's all there is to it, and none of us are operating on 100% efficiency in these areas. So it's probably true for each and every one of us listening to these words, that includes me, each and every one of us can probably do better at our connecting with other people, whether it's in the friendship zone, the Family Zone, which includes romantic or The Financial zone, connecting with others is the real key to it all, and I'm sure that this is something that each of us can benefit our lives through so happy warriors in my zeal to ensure that I waste none of the precious time that you have invested In the rabbi Daniel Lapin show, I will leave you now to contemplate those ideas that each and every one of us can improve our lives by improving, first of all, the number of human beings to whom we are connected, And secondly, the depth and authenticity of those very connections. So I want to wish you a wonderful week of growth and progress in your 5f onwards and upwards with your family, your finance, your friendships, your faith and your fitness. I'm Rabbi. Daniel Lapin, God bless you.
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