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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: Money, Marriage, and Murder. Get Wise.
Date: 03/01/24 Length: 1:01:25
Daniel Lapin 0:00
Welcome, happy warriors Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show where I, your rabbi, do my solemn best to reveal how the world really works. Thanks for being part of the show. Thanks for all you do to help promote the show, because my solemn mission is to provide guidance and inspiration for happy warriors. And you already know what I mean by happy warrior, don't you? Right, because every one of you, regardless of your age, or condition, I see each and every one of you as a beautiful woman, or a handsome and versatile man. No Gender Spectrum, no confusion, just happy warrior men, and happy warrior women. This is because this show focuses as much on your soul as on your bodies. And I know that every listener has a young and vibrant soul. What is more, we're all happy warriors. Because to live productively, we have to fight every day, against the force of entropy. If nothing else, you fight to maintain your possessions. You fight to build and maintain your family and your money, your body and your business profession or career. You see God created a world in which chaos and disorder rules. chaos and disorder are the natural default condition. And so life is a fight. And that is a very good thing to stop fighting, to stop seeking and stop striving is to die. And I say you're not just warriors, but happy warriors. Because you throw yourself into the fight for eight or nine or 10 hours a day, six days a week. Well, that's pretty good, but to do all that with a debonair smile on your face and a jaunty pace to your stride. To do all that while generating an irrepressible surge of happiness welling up in your soul. That means you are spiritually grounded in everything that is life-affirming, devoted to your faith, your families, your finances, your friends, and your fitness, knowing that you can triumph over those who both intentionally and unknowingly promote a dark abyss of satanic, secular socialism, and all of the many destructive and evil social pathologies that it generates. Now a couple of things that you can do for me, number one, is to go ahead and subscribe to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, that will be wonderful. So just go right ahead and hit that right now. And that way, we are connected in that sense that you will know each week when the new podcast posts. And secondly, you might want to think about becoming formally affiliated with the international community of happy warriors. And you do that by going to WWE happy warrior.com we happy warriors.com That's all you have to do. And you'll be able to join our community right there. I really I may not have said that as clearly it's we happy warriors plural.com we happy warriors.com And that way you can join the community. Now you know, my dear happy warriors, that there is a huge disparity between intelligence and wisdom. When I mock a professor, as I will do later in today's show, I don't doubt for a minute that he may well be more intelligent than I am. Very possibly he may have a higher IQ than I do perfectly possible. But he's not wise, not even close to being wise. And if it comes to a choice, I'd much rather have wisdom than intelligence than intelligence. I mean wisdom. Without intelligence, you can still live a good life, intelligence without wisdom. You are you end up being a smart fool.
Daniel Lapin 4:53
And one of the ways of obtaining wisdom is by realizing that the Bible is not a history book, it's not a narrative. It's not a storybook. It's not a fairy tale. It is a guide to a complex matrix of life and to things in life that are as true today, and as relevant today as they were 1000 years ago, and they will always be relevant, as long as there are people on the planet, and that is male, female relationships and money, those two things are always going to be relevant. And in order to become a wise person, and the wisdom carries over. When one is wise in the area of male-female relationships and money, then one is also wise in areas of child-raising, and building a business and working out transactions. And so it's always a good place to start. And that's the reason why, the reason why Susan and I prepared a resource for you on one of the most fascinating well, they're all fascinating, but one of the most important to us books of the Bible, the Book of Ruth, because the Book of Ruth, we term the Chorus of Connection. And wouldn't you agree that the crux of the point of both marriage and finance is connection, you have to connect with somebody before you can live with them. And you absolutely have to connect with somebody in order to do a transaction with them that makes both of you richer than you were before. And so the Book of Ruth is marvelous, in this respect, imparting so much in the way of sheer wisdom, understanding how the world really works. And so we've got, not only is this available to you, but it's available to you at a special discount happy warriors. And what are the sort of things we covered and I get it, you know, it's a long, long study program and, and you're going to want to go through it with somebody who's important in your life. And you're going to want to go through it more than once. But to give you an idea, you see, as well, we've got as a woman, Ruth, and she has a mother-in-law. And the mother-in-law's name is Naomi. And Naomi has a daughter-in-law, Ruth and she has another daughter-in-law, Orpah. And they're all without the three women are alone. And she, they start heading back from where they are in Moab and why I speak about why it's the fields of Moab not the country of Moab. It's all every word there matters in terms of gaining a deeper comprehension of really important things about life. So in verse 11, she says, Go my daughter's. Go, I tell you why you're still going with me. Do I still have sons in my womb? Do I still have sons for you to marry? These are two young women who were married to her sons who died young. And now they're young widows. So weird thing, isn't it? These are two young widows who are affectionately clinging to their eldest mother-in-law. And she seems focused on them wanting to marry another son of hers. And as she rightly says, there's no point in them waiting for her to have children, because She isn't pregnant. And she's getting old. And even if she had the hope of being with a man that very night, yeah, that's what she says to them, and got pregnant, that those who wouldn't want to wait around till that newborn grew up to be a man, even if it was a boy, not a girl. Wouldn't you agree that at this point, these two young women would look at each other meaningfully and, and they'd sort of point their fingers at their foreheads and say to one another, what's happened to the old girl? She must have gotten too much sun, or the grief of losing her husband and her sons has gotten to her. Here we are. We don't have shoes. We're penniless. We don't know where we're sleeping tonight. We don't know what we're eating tomorrow. We don't know what tomorrow's gonna bring and she's babbling on us about marrying her sons. Well, Nomi knew exactly what she's doing. But
Daniel Lapin 9:39
that's what I explained. And I explained that it's very easy to dismiss parts of the Bible, you know, scornfully, saying, Well, you know, that's just the patriarchy or women were considered property and so on and so forth. But one misses the opportunity to gain deep and significant understanding of how the world really works, which is really just another definition of wisdom, when you think about it right? Then, I mean, to give you another example, little further down the way Orpah leaves and goes home, to the house of her mother, not her father, why? It's usually the house of the father. Why does it say to the house of the mother in the book of Ruth, that's weird. Well, guess what, you'll be amazed to hear that there is a very good reason for that. And then, later on, it seems they've Nomi sets her eyes on a man who will be a good husband for her daughter-in-law, Ruth. And, and she tells her Ruth, actually, Naomi tells her daughter-in-law, go and down to where this man will be tonight. And, and I want you to first of all, bathe yourself put on perfume dress beautifully, and go to without letting yourself be known to anybody. Go to where Boris has just finished having dinner. And note where he's sleeping, and then come to him in the night. And, and you'll find that in the standard translation, you'll find in many Bibles, it'll say, uncover his legs and lie down. And from there onwards, he will tell you everything you should do. Ruth's reaction should be excuse me, Mom, I don't understand. I'm not that sort of girl. The her mother-in-law has been so protective her wants her to go in late at night, to the bed of a man she's barely knows. It's, it's quite, it's quite amazing. And again, it's not just a story, but we're gaining and understanding into money and marriage, something. Now again, this isn't good general dating advice. But that's not meant as dating advice. It's meant as an understanding of how the world really works. And so boys ate and drank was in a good mood, Ruth Come silently, and she uncovered his legs and she lay down. Now, I have to mention that one of the things I do in this program is give you the accurate and correct translation, even though most English translations cover it up, mainly because it's awkward to have to explain something very complex. Because what I'm about to tell you is so shockingly explicit, that it would have required considerably more space to explain then translators have available. At any rate, her mother-in-law said to her go down and not uncover his legs, but uncover his jewels, and I think enough said on this topic for now.
Daniel Lapin 13:18
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Daniel Lapin 14:16
So with that done, let's move right on. Now, something happened this past weekend and this. This particular podcast is releasing at the beginning of the month of March. And what happened this past weekend is that a 25-year-old US Air Force enlisted man went ahead and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. And he said he's set his camera up and he live streamed and he made a statement he said he could no longer abide being complicit in genocide, and the last comprehensible words he uttered before collapsing in the flames. We're free Palestine. Okay. So they've been a lot of comments about this going around. And I want to tell you how I view this. First of all, there is a professor of philosophy called Cornell West, who is a black guy. He's an academic, and he is the darling of the left. And for a lot of reasons, and he, he had his little statement on this. So listen to Cornell professor, Professor Cornell West speaking on this, "Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell, who died for truth and justice. I pray for his precious loved ones. Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real-time." I would imagine that, if Aaron Bushnell who committed suicide had done so, in celebration of white supremacy, I would imagine that Professor Cornel West would not be nearly as impressed with a brother, Aaron Bushnell's extraordinary courage and commitment. I guess it depends very much on on the on the cause? Well, what I want to clarify for you is that I don't care whether brother Aaron Bushnell died for the Palestinians or for the Israelis, I don't care if he would have taken his own life, to protect the life of the unborn and to protest abortion, or whether he took his life in order to advocate for a does not matter, not one little bit. And I think that's the really important thing to spend just a few moments understanding.
Daniel Lapin 17:23
Look, you know that religion discourages suicide, you know, that the medically assisted suicide regimen in Canada is opposed almost exclusively by religious organizations. The euthanasia movement in Europe and the growing euthanasia movement in the United States with doctors help people take their own lives. That is, it's protested almost entirely by religious people. And in spite of the fact that there is an attempt to whitewash it by calling it Death with Dignity or the Act to allow people to die with dignity. It doesn't take very long, of course, for people to realize that there's really not a whole lot of dignity about it. And for doctors to be involved in that is a terrible thing. And what is more, what becomes a red choice, or what starts off as a red choice doesn't take very long before it has turned into an expectation that it's socially not only acceptable, but socially expected, that people who are at a certain stage of age or illness are expected to sort of ease the burden on society by just moving themselves along a little bit. So with religions protesting, and I think everybody knows that religions discourage suicide, in Judaism, and in the Bible, it's more than discouraged. It's pretty much the equivalent of murder.
Daniel Lapin 19:13
With the I could I could actually say, murder and suicide. Yeah, pretty much the same thing. And the thing that I think might be interesting for you to know is that there is a general rule in the Torah, oh, in the Five Books of Moses, that you are part of society, you are one more person. And so whatever you are not allowed to do to anyone else in society, you are also not allowed to do to yourself, you follow? So you're not allowed to speak badly about other people. You're actually not allowed to speak badly of yourself. You're not supposed to lie to other people, you're not allowed to lie to yourself. You're not allowed to kill other people, you're not allowed to kill yourself. And that's how we know that suicide is prohibited that God frowns on suicide. So it's important to understand then that, to quote, Professor Cornell West, brother, Aaron Bushnell committed an immoral act, it's not relevant as to what the cause was. It's not relevant to why he did it. Did he grow up in weird circumstances has He Has he fallen into the grip of left wing, it's all irrelevant. You don't praise somebody who took his own life. As a matter of fact, if it is a Jew who takes his own life, it becomes a very serious question mark as to whether he can be buried alongside his family in a Jewish cemetery. That's how evil it is. Taking someone else's life, taking your own life, same thing, it's a really, really bad thing to do. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the cause, in the same way, that taking someone else's life in order to promote a cause, it doesn't make it any different. Murder is evil. That's all there is to it. And I believe just on a pragmatic level, Americans like Professor Cornel West, are doing a huge disservice to society. And I'll tell you why. Do you know how many people are murdered in America on an average day? About 50 Human beings have their lives snuffed out by vicious thugs on any ordinary day in the United States of America? That's right. I mean, it's you think about that. That's a lot of people. And, you know, here now, Aaron Bushnell on Sunday made it another one. But here's the problem. The more you normalize this kind of thing, the more you begin legitimizing political violence. And at that point, you, you know, you've changed your society into a very primitive environment, where it's now okay to inflict physical violence on people in order to promote a political position. I mean, the end is near at that point, it's pretty serious. So the correct, in my view, the correct approach is to I wouldn't call it a tragedy, it was an immoral act. I would say that I am, hauntingly sad for Aaron Bushnell's family and for his friends. It's, it's a sad thing. It's horrible. But what he did, was thoroughly immoral was completely wrong. And calling it anything else means taking one more horrific step closer to political violence in the United States of America. And so, for the very first time, old-world conflicts have been introduced into America by the aggressive and radical Muslim world. You think about it, I mean, Turks and Cypriots. And Irish Catholics and Protestants, you think of all the dozens of different ethnic conflicts around the world, somehow or another. They never came to America, the Germans in the French, and Germans and French, I mean, I don't even remember how many wars they fought against one another. There's no love lost between the Germans and the French. And yet French came to America and Germans came to America. And that was it. The old world was left behind. And these battles were not fought on the streets of America. And for the very first time, resistance by any means necessary. That is a formula to legitimize political violence. And so people are injured and sometimes they've been killed in on American streets, by muslims or muslims supporters and encourages in the cause of an old world conflict that has been going on for a very, very long time. And Aaron Bushnell's death should not be called a sad tragedy. It's sad for his family and friends. This, but what he did was an act of killing. And there's no difference between killing yourself and killing somebody else the, the philosophical underpinnings of that is very simple, which is that you don't own your own body God does. It Simple as that. And so what right you have to terminate your life you don't have your right to terminate your own or anybody else's. So that is the, in my view, the correct take on Aaron Bushnell situation. Let me move from that sad topic to a much happier topic of marriage. And, and before I do that, I have to tell you that there was a magazine that was really very dominant during the first 60 years of the 20th century was called McCall's magazine, it was one of the big women's magazines. It reached a point where it was third, it was the third most popular magazine in the United States. You know what the first was I'm talking now about 1950 to 1960. Reader's Digest was the most popular magazine in America. The second most popular was TV Guide. Isn't that interesting. And the third was McCall's, which was a woman's magazine and brought to my attention. Interestingly enough, was an issue of McCall's magazine, from 1958. So this issue of McCall's magazine gets brought to my attention, and it's interesting, you know, bright cover with some pretty flowers in a vase, and a lovely little kitten, playfully smelling the flowers. And then there are a couple of articles highlighted on the cover. One of them is an article by a man called Senator John F. Kennedy. That's right. Later on to be President Kennedy assassinated in 1963. This is 1958. He's still a senator. And, and he was so carefully groomed for the presidency. He used to have people who like Sorenson was one of them who used to write articles and books for him in his name. And here we have an article like that not written by Senator Kennedy, but credited to him in the magazine, three women of courage. And this has got a huge circulation in America. And so right there, and then two years before he wins the presidential campaign, against Richard Nixon in 1960. Just two years before that, he is listed as credited as the author of an article three women of courage by Senator John F. Kennedy. This is so I mean, from a political perspective, such invaluable promotional, and, and political capital being generated by an article like that. And then
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new houses, what to look for in 1958. And Are sex manuals, a threat to happy marriages by Dr. David Mace. So there it is, you know, a very popular women's magazine 1958, the height of its popularity, came the early 60s, and it declined and declined, and it wasn't long before it was a goner. And you can't it's no longer published today. But the article that interests me in this issue is 129 ways to get a husband, a brainstorming report on how to get married. And sure enough, there are 129 suggestions. And they are all listed. Look, of course, some of them are funny. In today's climate, some of them seem downright weird. But you got to understand there's something very interesting that's been revealed here and I found this absolutely fascinating. And that is that a woman's magazine, this is not you know, this is this is not a teenager's magazine. This is a woman's magazine takes the job of getting married seriously. And so, to just tell you the first, the first few: get a dog and walk it; Have your car break down at strategic places. Number three attend night school take courses men like join a hiking club. Look in the census reports for places with the most single men. Read the obituaries to find eligible widowers. You see women of all ages, women wanted to get married. And so the article was to some extent humorous of course, but at the same time, it responded to a real sensitivity on the part of women. Sit on a park bench and feed the pigeons. Get a job in a medical, dental, or law school. Becoming here's number 12 become a nurse or an airline stewardess. Remember that word stewardess - become a nurse or an airline stewardess. They have very high marriage rates. Why? Because a kind woman with a smile on her face, who takes care of you is irresistibly attractive. That's how it used to be. Now today, there are no stewardesses. And those people who are tasked with caring for the passenger cabin on airplanes are more often snarling harridans than they are smiling stewardesses. But there it is, back in 1958. That made a lot of sense. And even if you didn't necessarily take it seriously, it was thought-provoking. And number 18. Tell your friends that you're interested in getting married, don't keep it a secret. Okay, that's that's very good advice to this very day for anyone wanting to get married. Buy a full-length mirror and take a good look at yourself before you go out. And then they're divided into sections, you know how to find them, how to land them, and so on and so forth. It's all it's somewhat tongue in cheek, but at the same time, you find yourself reading through it and it's it, there's something into it. Listen to this one number 98 Turn wolves into a husband material by assuming they have honor. Well, that of course is an anachronism today, isn't it? Resist the urge to make him over dash before marriage that is remain innocent, but not ignorant. That's good advice to the present day.
Daniel Lapin 32:47
And so so goes now the reason I mentioned this is because around about the same time that no actually when was it? No, this was more. This didn't come out in ninth. In a current in a recent issue our relatively recent issue a few years ago, the magazine Psychology Today, a wrote a an attack on the McCall's magazine issue of 1958. And it was written by a woman who's made a career out of not only being single all her life, she's in her 60s Now, but promoting it as the best possible lifestyle. And, and so she she writes in Psychology Today, a hilarious and horrifying article from McCall's magazine 129 ways to get a husband and she speaks about it's different today. Today we got lots of women who are enjoying being single who are not looking to be married and an article like that would make no sense today whatsoever. And so she runs through the 129 and comments on each one. And again just a couple of them to give you the gist
Daniel Lapin 34:16
Join a hiking club you remember that was number four. Join a hiking club if you like hiking clubs, but hiking solo can be awesome. Really, in this day and age you telling women to go hiking alone really? Come on. Look in the census reports for places where the most single men, she adds look for places that offer the life you love. Maybe you already found such a place. Congratulations stay there. Let's see. Here's another one. Get a job in medical, dental or law school. And again the reasons for that are obvious. And now she says become a doctor, dentist, or lawyer, you are a badass so you don't need to marry one. How about the one number 12 become a nurse or an airline stewardess. They have very high marriage rates. Here this woman in Psychology Today comments become a person who thinks for herself they have very high rates of living the life that works for them rather than the life Everyone tells them they should want tell your friends that you're interested in getting married don't keep it a secret there was no 18 year remember? She says Tell your friends you have no interest whatsoever in getting married don't keep it a secret tell your mother tell all your other relatives tell all the random people you meet on the street declare it on social media yeah all right. Anything else here that they have one go back to your hometown for a visit. The wild kid next door may have become a very eligible bachelor while you were away. And Psychology Today ads go back to your hometown for a visit chances are that annoying kid next door won't even be there anymore. And number 26 In McCall's magazine was don't room with a girl who is a sad second let her pull you down to her level. And Psychology Today says don't room with anyone. It's so awesome having your own place? Yeah let's seesays McColl magazine in 1958. wear high heels most of the time, says Psychology Today. Now, wear shoes with no hills, they are way more comfortable or don't wear any shoes at all. Number 54 In McCall's magazine in 1958. Tell him he's handsome. And, and Psychology Today says talk to someone who is less needy and insecure. By the way, I've noticed that's a big thing among feminists today. Anytime that a man expresses a preference or an express or an or preference is expressed, the answer is always he's needy and insecure. And we don't need needy and insecure men look at the certain realities about men and women and male and female relationships. And one of them is that it is very easy. For a man to make a woman feel insecure, it's very easy for other women to make a woman feel insecure. But what is less well known perhaps, is that the right woman or the wrong woman, if you like has the capacity to make almost any man feel needy and insecure. Men do have insecurities. Almost even the most confident appearing man can be reduced by the wrong woman or the right woman, the woman who can do such a thing. So again, the thing of Oh, stay away from insecure men.
Daniel Lapin 38:28
I've had to deal with this quite often because, you know, from time to time I say that. You know, young men consult me from time to time. Sometimes I teach classes for young men. And and I say to them, look if there are two women equally attractive and appealing, but one of them is an eager career woman making a lot of money. And the other one is a nurse or an airline stewardess or a kindergarten teacher, and who is a who says, I'm not that interested in a career, I want to be a wife and mother. There's no question go for that one. And then women come to me afterwards and say, Well, you said this. I said, Yeah, I did say then, well, why why are you catering to insecure men? Call it what you like. But when we say that we're not being insecure. We're simply being realistic about the kind of woman we'd like to build a home together with. That's all and so don't underestimate the appalling damage that feminism has done to women in the United States of America. McCall's magazine said double date with a gay listen to this 1958 You could still use the word gay double date with a gay happily married couple they do not mean a gay couple. They mean a happily married couple, a cheerful happily married couple, so as to let you're the guy you're dating, let him see what it's like. That's such good advice. That's really a good thing. And Psychology Today Today says set him up with a married couple then go home. I mean, there's a snarkiness to them. And it's not based at all on helping women who want to be married. It's based on doing everything possible to sabotage women in that area, and try to persuade them that somehow being single is desirable.
Daniel Lapin 40:52
Now, let me just clarify, let me tell you what I'm not saying. I'm not saying that you can never ever be happy as a single person. I would never say that happiness is a decision. That's all and of course, you can be happy as a single person. You can be happy in in all kinds of so you can even be happy in horrible situations. But happiness is a decision. I'm not saying single people are bad. Heaven forbid, I'm certainly not say maybe single people are often sad, but not bad. I'm also not saying that nobody wants to be single. Right? I think it's quite possible that there are many people who think they want to be single. I think there are many people who deciding to make the best of being single, tell themselves that they want to be single, and they may even be some really want to be single. That's you know, that's all fine. But what I am saying is that the overwhelming majority of people. Now the McCall's magazine article was about women. But it's not, you know, this is true for bed as well. But, but what I'm saying is that the majority of women would like to find the one the majority of women would like to be mated for life. Right, hopefully with a great guy. Why do I say that? I mean, am I, the majority of women? Do I speak to the majority of how do I know such a thing? Well, one of the things I don't depend on are studies, research or experts. I try and do thought experiments. I try and do calculations. What I mean by that. Well, I look at the plethora of dating apps, dating websites, matchmaking agencies, that tells me that there's a lot of people using those services, because there wouldn't be that many of them otherwise. Right? There's also a plethora of companies manufacturing cars, right? You probably can't even name every car manufacturer, I'm not sure I can nap, maybe I could. But the market responds to reality. Let's recognize that the market responds to reality. And so if there are a lot of companies making something, then it means a lot of people want that. How many women's magazines and women's websites speak incessantly about matching marrying and mating? It's like the number one topic. And so I think it's a reasonable assumption that the majority of women would like to be married for life to a wonderful man. I also am aware of the very large number of older single women who are distressed about having waited too long, perhaps waited too long for what? Well, marriage, obviously. And if, as Psychology Today would have it, that being single is awesome, then why worry? And why be unhappy about having waited too long.
Daniel Lapin 44:34
I think also that it's important to remember that we are hardwired for permanence in intimate relationships. We are now you might say well, you know, it used to be that way people used to marry young and stay married for life that was much more common but That's not because flexibility never occurred to those old-timers. It's just that over the years, they saw that impermanence did not work so well. You see, here is one of the great casualties of secular liberalism. One of the great casualties of progressivism is that it contracts your timeframe. And so if one is a religious person, then you are very aware of the past and of the future, as well as of the present. Right. It's not an accident that the largest terrorist attack on American soil was in 2001, on September the 11th. Because when Muslim forces were defeated at the gates of Vienna in 1683, they were defeated by a Christian army on September the 11th. And as religious people, Muslims have a long memory, they think in terms of the past, and the present, and the future, Christians, same thing. Right, they are very much aware of the past, I have many Christian friends who think very much in terms of what would Jesus do. And, and, and Jesus is alive to them. And, and they're also aware of the future of what they believe are God's plans for the future. Jews. Moses is as alive today as he was 3300 years ago. And the future Yeah, very much aware the future. Now, the reason this is important, and yet one more reason for why it is that atheistic regimes have never yet created strong and viable economies. The reason is, because for success in business, you really do have to have an understanding of past, present, and future. As a matter of fact, or even go further and say that what it really is, is to understand that the present is really just a thinly sliced action that converts the future to the past. And thinking in those terms, makes you a much better business professional, because you can more readily understand trends. If you are comfortable with an eye on the past, and you're comfortable with an eye on the future. Your ability to make good financial projections, your ability to decide what goods and services you are going to specialize in creating and providing in five years time. All of those things depend on a comfortable familiarity with time, which is not something that is generated at all, by secular woke progressivism. And so smashing of statues is a childish abolition of the past. And comfort with abortion more than comfort with abortion, making abortion the centerpiece litmus test of loyalty to the left. Yeah, destroying the future sure it's irrelevant. That doesn't mean anything. But for traditionalists, for those who are in contact with how the world really works, well, we understand the need for past and future and understanding of the past and the future. And that is a little bit about the idea also of the permanence of intimate relationships. And that's really what what people want. It's partially hardwired that way. And it's partially that back up until the 60s, there was more comfort with past and future. So getting married was something that makes much more sense. If you do have a sense of past and future.
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In other words, if you had any idea of what your relationship could one day be with a child. And beyond that, who knows, maybe even a grandchild, you would get married, not tomorrow. But today you would run, not walk. But most people, tomorrow isn't a reality the future isn't real because people have suffered the casualty of secular progressivism and lost a comfortable familiarity with future and past. But old timers were able to look at trends, they understood paths, they understood future. And they saw that impermanent short-term intimate relationships didn't work. So well. They saw that attended. And this was no I mean, you could read the stuff as I have stuff going back to the 19th century, maybe even earlier. But I've seen 19th-century writings, where a decline in marriage and short-term and an increase in short-term, intimate relationships causes a population of justifiably resentful women. That's right. And heavens, don't we have that today in America, a growing and already very large, frighteningly large population of resentful, angry women, justifiably in many cases, but that's very simple, you see, because if you understand that the act of physical intimacy between a man and a woman creates a permanent relationship, whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you accept it or not, makes no difference. It's a reality, it's there. And so very naturally, women may well believe that they are as comfortable as men are with short-term relationships. More often than not, women believe that if they maintain the relationship with a guy, it will lead to marriage. And when it doesn't, and they've spent 234, or five, in some cases, one case, I know seven years, dating, or living with a man only to have him move on, usually, to a younger woman, a younger woman at that point. Of course, she's angry, of course, she's resentful, she may not express it, she may not even acknowledged herself, she feels it. But heavens, it's perfectly natural and perfectly normal. For her to be angry at men. I get it. And this has been going on in America since the 60s. So we've now got two generations already have women who have been badly treated as the mildest way I can put it badly treated by men. And the man says, Hey, I was always honest, I always I told you there was no future in this, that I'm not getting married. But it doesn't make any difference you see, because so powerful is the physical experience, that no words can begin to match it. And so the words that she hears him saying, I'm not interested in marriage, I'm not looking for marriage. I'm just, you know, I like spending time with you. Let's not spoil it by talking of marriage. She doesn't hear that. Because the exuberant feeling of ecstasy released by the experience of being together, says to her, I love him and he loves me. And it's not going to be long before this is going to lead to marriage. And then it doesn't. And she is a like a bride abandoned on the morning after her wedding. It's not good for society to have a large population of angry and resentful women is it? And again, you only have to look at American politics and who is who? And to look at the statistics which fascinate me. On how many more women are influenced by woke progressive thinking than men. Many men are too, but the numbers don't even compare. It appeals strongly to women. And so you see, the old timers were right. Promoting permanence in male-female relationships. helps to avoid the growing population of legitimately angry and resentful women. But that's not all my friends you happy warriors guess what else? Temporary physical relationships? Do? I've told you what it does to women makes them angry and resentful. What about men? It D masculinized. As men, what? Really? Surely all these men casually hooking up are just being very masculine? No, not at all. Here's the thing. I want to tell you a timeless truth. Listen to it carefully. You it is d masculinizing. unhealthy, downright bad for men to be takers, and not give us it's a bad thing for men. With you happy warriors that are raising boy children, you can almost not start too early in having them do things for you and do things for the family. Allowing a human male, to be a giver, much more than a taker turns him into a man, it masculinized as him men who connect with women, and then move on are takers and not give us at least the man who patronize us, the organization on the outskirts of Las Vegas, in which he can dally with a professional lady, at least the man who patronizes that organization pays he's a giver as well. Don't laugh, I could hardly be being more serious. But the man who takes from a woman and moves on his given her nothing, nothing at all. Now, some men with perhaps over-healthy egos will say I gave as good as I got. And they'll say, look, she got as much joy from the interaction as I did. Don't praise yourself. It's not true. I'm not saying she didn't enjoy it. I'm not saying that. But what I'm saying is that if what you're saying is true, then she would have been chasing you as much as you chased her. And that's simply not the case. Men go seeking women, women, for the most part, do not go seeking men. And, and it's a really important thing. It's even in the language, it's an important thing to understand that in the sexual relationship, the man is more of a receiver. And the woman is more of a giver. It's important, really important to understand that. And, and that's why it's I mean, it's even, even in language, we acknowledge that she gave herself to him, she surrendered herself to, it's always a giving on the part of the woman and a taking on the part of the man. It's it's understood in language, it's understood in the emotions of the moment. It's a reality that is tough for most men to hear. But you're not most men, you are happy warriors. And so I beseech you, to hear me very clearly on this. And that is that there is nothing that in masculine it's a man No, I don't mean in escalate. That's not quite the right word, de masculinized as a man more than being a taker and not a giver. And there are very few ways in which a man is more a taker than in the physical relationship with a woman. And so taking and receiving without giving D masculinized as men. And so, this is why in the up till the 1950s or 60s,
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ordinary people they they understood the appeal of shacking up and hooking up. They understood the appeal of that but they knew it's not good For the durability, and functionality and success of a society, they knew it doesn't work. And so they held society together fairly nicely, until the 1960s. And at that point, lots of things began to you know that. And so that gives us a little bit of an idea of what is going on in male-female relationships today, and how you happy warriors can be thinking about this in a much more positive way for yourselves, for your friends, for people with whom you are connected, all of these things really, really valuable. So until next week, this is your rabbi saying goodbye to you from the rabbi Daniel Lapin show for this week. And I wish you a week of moving and progressing in your five F's bracing in your family and your fitness, your faith, your finances and your friendships. Until then, God bless.
