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#3 Biblical Secret for Making Money is Know Yourself. - 2/3/18 Feb 04, 2018

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Is there a scientific test for honesty? The most important organ for making money (If you're not a swimsuit model!) Do identical twins have same or different fingerprints? The power of optimism in financial interactions. Do you know what medical school your doctor attended; do you really know if he attended medical school at all? The danger of fear and how to get rid of it.

Boats And Whales, Adultery And Tigers, Zoos And Puritans - 1/27/28 Jan 30, 2018

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Everything we think we know about Mutiny on the Bounty is a lie! 3 Hollywood movies distorted the truth. The 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great work of art nourishing our higher selves with serious thoughts about good and evil, marriage and morality, hypocrisy and nobility, the inevitability of consequences and yes, adultery. The 1995 movie The Scarlet Letter starring Demi Moore has as much to do with the book as the movie Free Willy has to do with Moby Dick, another great American novel written by Herman Melville at the same time as The Scarlet Letter. And while we're on the topic of books and animals, I tell you something you don't know about The Life of Pi.

Yes, it was the mass adoption of the birth control pill and it was a SCOTUS decision that for the first time in US history declared that saying a prayer in public schools was against the law. This was the dangerous prayer that Steve Engel and his fellow leftists got the court to declare illegal: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country."

Effective & Honest Communication Matters Everywhere But Politics - 1/20/18 Jan 22, 2018

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Communicating honestly & effectively produces wonderful results in romantic, business & social interactions. Only in politics is the reverse tolerated. Here's what a politician would call a spade: "It's a one person operated, foot-powered implement of wooden-metallic composition designated primarily though by no means exclusively for use in agricultural, horticultural, & constructional activities for purposes of carrying out such excavational tasks as may be designated by supervisory grades." Why I would eliminate and ban the use of these meaningless slurs: Anti-Semite, Homophobe, Racist, Sexist, & Capitalist. My answer to a young friend's worry that "Trump will get us into a war."

Ancient Jewish Wisdom On Masturbation - 1/13/18 Jan 17, 2018

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Masturbation, the art of selfishness. Why is the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, so over decorated? Monogrammed towels? Soap shaped like seashells? Really? Why are we so embarrassed about a perfectly natural bodily function like emptying our bowels? What does relieving oneself have to do with masturbation? Why did Onan in the Bible have to die? If a woman never marries, is she better off with a child or without? Why are welfare recipients not the most patriotic and appreciative citizens? How to avoid all awkwardness in the masturbation conversation with teenagers. Why did the great, great, grandmother of King David dress up as a prostitute? Why did her former father-in-law not recognize her? No it won't grow hair on your hands or make you blind, but it will…….

Your Rabbi Goes Green--The Right Way! Jan 15, 2018

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Mrs. Lapin and I were offered a guided tour of the new Museum of the Bible in Washington DC. We accepted, planning on spending an hour there. We were confident that an hour would more than suffice. We know the Bible, right? We frequently visit Israel. We've already seen one too many archeological artifacts. Gosh, was I wrong! We spent five hours there. They couldn't get rid of us. And we are eagerly planning our next visit; sooner rather than later. How often is your rabbi speechless? Ridiculous, right? But I was lost for words. The museum is deeply moving for any American regardless of faith and profoundly impactful for any sentient human being. In this show, I describe what we saw and I place it in cultural context in terms of the socio-political canyon that cuts through our American culture. This is an immensely significant addition to our nation and I feel indebted to the Green family, creators of Hobby Lobby whose generosity and vision made it possible.

Where Is Heaven? Really! 2018 The Year For The Death Of Materialism - 12/30/17 Jan 03, 2018

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People say, "I'm not religious but I'm spiritual". What does that really mean? What is spiritual reality? Why do prostitutes still prosper in the era of Tinder with quick and free hook-ups? Why are so many mental health professionals secular when every indication is that spiritual reality is a powerful factor in mental rehab? The role of Darwin, Freud, and Marx at the start of the 1900s. My close encounter with a real, live African lion. Definitions of spiritual and physical and how many of the joys in your life depend upon each? The exact location of heaven.

When Will-Power Is Just Not Enough; Trump's First Year Dec 26, 2017

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How to overcome the resistance that obstructs every attempt to improve our lives, New Year resolutions notwithstanding. Health & weight loss; alcohol, drugs & other addictions, career advance, debt reduction and almost everything else that involves us in a struggle pitting our higher selves and our betterment against our lower desires, our laziness, and our lethargy. Learn the lesson from a famous musician & hear him play. Developing a ripped body without effort through electro-muscle stimulation. Reviewing President Trump's first year. Judeo-Christian religions liberate; secular liberalism restrains and restricts. Sexual harassment between 1967 and 2017. A secretary was not a toy, but is she now? And one of the best ways for a young woman to get ahead.

Could You Transform Your 24/7 Existence Into a 25/8 Life? - 12/16/17 Dec 19, 2017

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My polite response to the rude people who accosted me for driving a fuel-hungry, twelve cylinder automobile. Why we circumcise. The higher and holy purpose of energy and how the Left has it all wrong. What Chanukah lights have to do with foreskins. Why airplane engines burn oil not coal like older railway locomotives. The real purpose of aging and why not to dye your hair. Make a mistake with a recipe or driving directions and people gently correct you. But if you don't agree with them on use of energy, you're not mistaken, you're evil! If you don't recycle, you're not just ignorant, you're evil! If you prefer a 12 cylinder 420 horsepower gasoline driven car that can do 110 MPH and go 300 miles on a tank of gas to a cute little electric car whose main purpose is to advertise your virtue and purity, well, you're just plain evil.

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