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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: Do What You Like With Your Body But Your Soul Won't Play Along
Date: 12/12/25 Length: 00:24:57
Daniel Lapin 0:00
Greetings, Happy Warriors and thank you for being part of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, where I your rabbi reveals how the world really works. And one of the ways the world really works is by being in contact with reality, things go better when you're in contact with reality. And I coined a term for woke progressives a little while ago. I call them reality deniers, because almost every aspect of what the woke people in the United States and elsewhere in West Europe are choosing and selecting are in opposition to how the world really works. Let me explain what I mean. One of the love affairs going on American university campuses, and along with the literati and glitterati, along with the intelligentsia and the babbling Talking Heads, is a love affair with socialism. They're all excited and enthusiastic about socialism. What's that about? Well, again, if there is anything that has been proven again and again and again, is that an economic system based on socialism doesn't work because it defies how the world really works another area in which they defy how the world really works, and they defy reality, and they are therefore reality deniers. Is male, female relationships, all of feminism is a huge, big Croc destroyed the lives, seriously damaged and destroyed the lives of who knows how many million young women and older women who bought into feminism, and still, many of them still try to promote the tired, failed ideas of feminism and it's simply between wrong ideas of male and female and wrong ideas of how money works. They're well on their way to successfully destroying any society that gives them authority. And if that wasn't enough, they've got one more area of total and utter failure, and that is time to them, time is predominantly the present. The past is of little importance, and tearing down statues is their way of showing that history in the past just don't really matter. Do they and the future? They don't care about the future either. Abortion couldn't be a stronger statement of indifference to the future. And so the interesting thing is that all of these ideas substitution of the present as the only part of time that matters. Past is irrelevant. And even more than irrelevant, it's wrong. It's everything in the past was bad. They're incapable of recognizing goodness in the past and future doesn't exist. Everything is for the here and now. And so you have promoting the idea in the woke, secular left. You have the idea of not getting married, not having children, and oh, they are so vocal about this. Children harm the environment, and so on and so forth. Could there be anything demonstrating greater blindness with respect to the future. My goodness, what a lonely existence awaits those people down the road, no understanding of time, no understanding of male female relationships, no understanding whatsoever of money and this is perhaps the biggest clash taking place in the world today, a clash between the secular, fundamentalist ideas of The religion of secularism, and the ideas of the Bible. What I mean by the ideas about people sometimes get confused by that and they think, Well, you know, I'm talking about animal sacrifices and all kinds of other ritualistic parts of the Tanakh of the Hebrew Bible. No, I'm speaking about very. Practical things. For instance, you have a decision. If you're putting a society together, you have a decision to make fairly early, and that is, are you going to be in favor of marriage and family, or are you going to be in favor of individualistic existence? In other words, the basis of society is individuals, or the basis of society is families. You got to decide that. You got to decide early on whether people will own things. In other words, ownership of property, is that an important thing, or is it a bad thing? Karl Marx, from the beginning of his writings and repeatedly thereafter, stressed that private ownership is terrible. Ownership of everything should be communal, and the Five Books of Moses could hardly be clearer the whole of the Hebrew Bible, it doesn't say men sitting under fig trees. It's a man sitting under his fig tree. And a lot of the rules and regulations in the Old Testament have to do with opposing rights of different property owners. Obviously, the pattern is owning property. Obviously the pattern is one of male female relationships, structuring a family as the basis. And so, yes, the Bible reveals the overall idea of family as the unit private ownership. Everyone gets to own, and society works better when people own. And that extends also to accommodations. Neighborhoods are much better where, when there are places that are owned, where a neighborhood is occupied by owners rather than renters, you get a different feel in that neighborhood. It's good for everybody. And then finally, the question of time, understanding past and present are every bit as important. Past and future are every bit as important as present. And again, the Bible could hardly be clearer on that point, obviously, and this clash can be best exemplified by being, being an argument between Jerusalem and Athens and even the great world war two wartime leader Winston Churchill, in his book The History of the English speaking people, and also, in his book history of the Second World War, speaks about Jerusalem and Athens as these two great cities. And interestingly enough, both of them produce olives. Olive oil comes from both places. And that's just one interesting thing. And you know, I've taught many times that there is no such thing as coincidence. Coincidence is nothing more than an attempt to camouflage God's management of the world. And so we characterize this conflict between the two views, male female relationships, hey, go ahead. Male female relationships are all about turning your bodies into amusement parks. Jerusalem says your body is a temple. Athens, Greece says no, your body is an amusement park. Jerusalem says time is past and future just as important as present.
Daniel Lapin 8:24
And Greece says, No, the present is what really matters. And Athens says nobody should own things. And Plato had a lot to say about that. Greece was not into that. Athens, Jerusalem, very much into owning things. And they're further. You know this, this is very consistent. Athens says nobody should use energy. Notice that that corresponds to left wing wokeism today. But wait a second. Where do I get that from? Where does it say that Greece believed simple all the books, the stories of Greek mythology, lay out the philosophy of now, when I say Greece, by the way, that's not if you go on a sailing vacation in the Greek Isles today, it's got nothing to do with what we're talking about. We're talking about historic Greece, Ionia, Ionia, as it's often called. I don't know if it's still true, but Greek postage stamps used to have the word Ionia as the traditional name of biblical Greece back in those days, and that comes from the Hebrew where, in the Bible, one of the sons of Japheth, who is a son of Noah, is actually Ionia. In the Bible, it says it's y o n yavan and when that is read, transliterated from Hebrew alphabet to Greek alphabet, you get Ionia, and that is, and so, yeah, the stories of. Greek mythology lay out the philosophy of biblical Greece, what Greece stood for. And one of the stories in Greek mythology is that a hero, Prometheus, resolved to steal the gift of fire from the gods, because up till then, only the gods are allowed to use energy. It's a little bit like is doing now. Where, when people you, when celebrities use their private jets on Monday and spend Wednesday and Thursday talking about the environment? The hypocrisy is laughable. The idea is that it doesn't apply to them. They can use energy. It's just you and me. Shouldn't use energy. Well, Prometheus tried to steal energy, fire. Energy. Fire is the basic unit of energy for humanity, which he did because Zeus believed, and all the good Gods believed, fire was only for them. Prometheus gave it to everybody. And in punishment, Zeus arranges for Prometheus to be tortured for all eternity. By contrast, in the ancient Jewish wisdom, Adam is thrown out of the Garden of Eden with his wife, and he says, I don't know how I'm going to survive out there. And God says, Well, come here. I want to show you I'm going to give gonna give you a gift. I am sending you out of the garden, but I'm gonna give you a gift. And God strikes a stone, a flint gets sparks, starts a fire going. Adam leaps back in terror. What's that? God said, this is a great gift. It's called fire. It's going to scare away animals, and it is going to allow you to cook previously inedible food to delicious food, and it's going to warm you in the winter and give you light in the dark, and from then onwards, that is correct. And the holiday that celebrates this, of course, is Chanukah, and that's why Chanukah revolves around oil. In fact, even the description of the holiday even embodies the word oil. And we have a if you're interested in any of this and want to delve in more deeply, we've got a wonderful resource. I think it costs about the same as a cup of coffee to be honest. It's called Festival of Lights. It's an online program you can get hold of it. It's called Festival of Lights, how to convert a 24/7 existence into a 25/8 life. And yeah, that has something to do with time management and a Greek idea of time Greece is involved very much with the present. And one of the stories I tell in this beautiful resource, again, it's an you'll be able to just go to Rabbi Daniel Lapin calm and go and get yourself a what is the Go get yourself a copy of festival of light, transforming your 24/7 existence into a 25/8 life. And you'll do that at Rabbi Daniel lapin.com just go to the store and you'll find it there quite easily. So I tell a story in there of how my father used to somebody once said to him, you're getting gray hairs in your beard. Why don't you use a hair dye to get rid of the gray hairs? And he said, You don't understand, I tread cherish those gray hairs. Every time I look at myself in the mirror, my gray hairs remind me that I must use my time very diligently, because time is not limit limitless, and so I like that. Now I point out that, although there's no coincidence in in reality, it's so fascinating that the most famous hair dye for men used to take white out of their beards and out of their hair. Is called Grecian formula Greece.
Daniel Lapin 14:06
That's right, that is exactly the idea.
Daniel Lapin 14:09
And Keats writes a poem called Ode on a Grecian urn and he talks eloquently and lovingly about this picture of a man chasing a woman on this old Grecian urn is looking at, and he's saying, you know, I much prefer this to real life, because in real life, these lovers are going to grow old, but here, I like the fact that they're always going to look the way they look. Right. Now, that is a Grecian approach to life, a Jerusalem approach to life is, let's be with reality, not how we would like the world to be, but let's understand how the world really works. And the way the real world really works is that we do age and that there are ideal seasons of life for certain. Things. For instance, biology dictates that there is an ideal time for a woman to have babies. It's a period of about 15 years. That's all 20 say the age 20 to 35 does it work after that? Sure it does. But fertility has dropped off significantly, and potential problems increase. In likelihood, it's about 20 years. You got 20 to 3515 years. It's the isn't limitless time. You really have to think about this. Feminism destroyed the lives of so many women by telling them, oh, don't worry about that. Focus on your career. No, there is a good time to focus on the career. Let's talk about men for the moment. For men, say 25 to 50. After 50, you know, energies begin to wane. Warren Buffett is going close to 100 God bless him. And he's working and but generally, for most people you know, George Burns lived to be over 100 and smoked a couple of cigars every day. Good luck for him. May he rest in peace. But it's not a rule for everybody. In general, it's wise for a man not to waste his 20s and his 30s and his 40s, not to waste them, because those are the times in which the season is for building up your finances. And it's so remarkable that the celebration of Hanukkah emphasizing as it does, the clash and the conflict between Jerusalem and Athens, and the importance of making sure you know the difference and realizing that the culture and philosophy of Athens, which is all too visible in society around us, is going to hurt you and harm you. It's going to hurt your children. It's going to hurt your life in every way the philosophy of Jerusalem takes you forward. And you know, sometimes people who are devotees of the world of Greece mock those of us in the Jerusalem camp and, and say, Well, we're having fun. You know, you're, you're working and, and you're, you know, you're raising children, and you're having to devote yourselves to your families when we're out there having fun. And the best answer is, come back in years to come, and I'll let you enjoy the sound of my children laughing. Yeah, that's right. So the festival of Hanukkah coming up very, very soon is really about this. It's about exulting in the use of energy. We love using energy because it buys us time. And time, of course, is limited, but use energy. Don't walk to the next town if you have to visit there, don't bicycle. Drive an internal combustion powered car, and you'll get there, and it'll save you time and money and health and everything use energy. That's one of the messages of Hanukkah. Another message is go with Jerusalem, rather than Greece and be aware all the time that your past is just as important as your present, and your future is just as important as your present. Not betraying somebody, a friend of yours, very important. Not betraying your ancestors, just as important. Being cautious about the future, being aware that there is such a thing as the future, not everything is the present. That's the message of Jerusalem. Go for it, and you'll recognize, of course, that this is all embodied within the 5f program that I teach right family, finance, faith, fitness and friendships, past, present and future, all wrapped up in all of that, and build your family. That's a message of Jerusalem, Greece, the message of Greece. And again, I just want to tell you I'm not denigrating anybody living in Greece today, or any This is a philosophical description having to do with what Greece stood for in those early days when it was at war with Jerusalem, literally. And there was a war, and many people of Jerusalem joined the Greek side in exactly the same way that many Hebrews in America today join the side of. The Greeks on the side of wokeness and secularism and socialism and progressivism. Yeah, that's a very sad reality, but that's why we have to understand that this isn't about group identities. This is about ideas. It's about culture, and you will be able to get so much of a clearer idea of what's going on around you and what the future bears. What are the soft footsteps that you hear? What are they suggesting is coming down the road to you? If you understand that the primary philosophical struggle is a struggle between Jerusalem and Greece, you will find yourself well on the way, it is family, it is time, it is money, and within that are so many other things, like energy, Like building up a a, a
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collection, building up a sizable portfolio of assets. Yes, there is value that. That is very much the idea. That is what we're trying to do. And this is very much a part of this eternal and titanic struggle two ways of looking at life. You don't make the mistake of thinking they're 17. There's really two. And all the other things fall into either Jerusalem or Athens, Jerusalem or Greece, or somewhere on the spectrum between them, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. But fundamentally, that is, of course, the real argument, that is the real debate. And so do be sure to go to Rabbi Daniel lapin.com Have a look at this beautiful resource called festival of light. And we are in a time where we all celebrate with light. We do we realize that bringing light into the world is part of what the message of Jerusalem is really all about. Whether you are Jewish or Christian. That is really what is happening. And somebody said to me the other day that he belongs to the new Christian Right, which throws out, which ignores the Old Testament and focuses only on the new well, he said, So what do you say to that? I said, I wish you good luck. He said, why? I said, because the Old Testament, in contrast to the new, the Old Testament, has loads of information about male female relationships, not just regulations, but real information. If you want an understanding as to why the overwhelming majority of marriages happen because the man proposes to the woman, and almost none happen when the woman tries to propose to the man. The answer to that is in the Tanakh. It is in the Hebrew Bible, and so it is with rules about getting to understand money. It helps a lot if you have a rabbi, because a lot of the information of what money really is and how and look, there's a reason why Jews do disproportionately well with money. The Hebrew Bible is replete with all you need to know about money, finance, business. It's all there ancient Jewish wisdom unpacks it and lays it out. It's more easily ascertainable in the Hebrew in original than in the English. But it is there and that is what I tried to do in these shows, revealing how the world really works. That's exactly what the Hebrew Bible does. It reveals how the world really works, including in these critically important areas of male female relationships, money and time. And I hope that you enjoy let me know what you think of it after you've listened to it. It's called festival of light and transforming your existence, your 24/7 existence, into a 25/8 life, you will enjoy that, and you'll find it at Rabbi Daniel lapin.com hope you enjoy it and let me know how things are with you. Also, if you're not yet a member of our happy warrior community, come on in. There's room for all, and we'll look forward to seeing you right over there. So until next week, thanks for being with us. Thank you for spreading the word on the rabbi Daniel Lapin show, and I wish you a journey of growth onwards and upwards with your family and finances, your friendships and your fitness and, of course, your faith. I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin, God bless.
