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 at https://www.wehappywarriors.com/.

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 treatments. Unbelievably large numbers of school boys are taking stimulants like Ritalin or Adderall. 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?

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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.

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.

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?

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?

(Opening song clip "Where I Want to Be" - performed by Xiao Garcia, composed by Happy Warrior member, Edward Bruce Ybanez. Used with permission.) Full song here: https://youtu.be/ev6tcLDaf68

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.

I have the pleasure of interviewing a young man on his journey from ages 13 to 23. I asked him when and how he broke away from the destructive demons that threatened his entire future. He asked me how my marriage guidance has changed over the past 40 years. Enjoy the benefits of special access to a vast library of resources as well as a monthly live chat with Mrs. Lapin and me by joining our Happy Warrior community. Find out more here: https://rabbidaniellapin.com/who-is-a-happy-warrior/. My guest's experiences applying to an American university and how it compares to the school he is attending in Israel. We reminisce about two precious years we spent together. We discuss the mistake of marrying too old and why 'settle-down' is a terrible metaphor for marriage. Two signs that can tell you the survival chances of a couple's marriage.