This Musing has been on my heart for a few months now, yet I have hesitated to commit it to paper. I have pushed off writing it, partially because I know that it deserves re-write after re-write to express my thoughts well and partially because writing down my thoughts will force me to face a
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Belief plays an essential role in healing. Having confidence in my doctor when he assures me that I am doing fine encourages a more rapid recovery than if that spiritual factor is absent. I wasn’t surprised to read an article in BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, revealing that about half the doctors
Greeting Rabbi Daniel and Susan Lapin, I have been listening mainly to your YouTube teachings for years and recently subscribed to be a happy warrior. I am married for 20 years with 2 kids. We are considering getting into Business. Rabbi. I registered a company with me and my wife being the sole directors a
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Our ten-year-old grandson is staying with us for a few days, and his parents kindly provided entertainment in the form of a thousand-piece-plus building set. He is constructing a tank, one with which he is familiar from his history readings. Unlike too many college students, he even knows who the opposing sides were in the
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, How accurate is RDL-AI Virtual Guide? We’re sending you a question that was submitted to RDL-AI by a Happy Warrior and the answer she received. How did it do? Here is the question: I have a new client that is Jewish. One of my co-workers may have broken some taboos, e.g.
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The biggest problem with the Jews is that their very existence in 2025 validates the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As the late British historian, Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975), often declared, “Jews are the fossils of history.” Jews actually vanished eons ago just like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Hittites, he’d explain. The people we see
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Shalom Rabbi and team. Rabbi, if one takes a bank overdraft in their personal capacity, not for business, should one tithe from it? In fact, from both business and personal overdraft, should one tithe from it? It’s a question that was raised in our bible study and as you can well imagine it resulted in
My husband and I, like other observant Jews, function with two calendars—the Hebrew one and the secular one. Currently, it is both the years 5786 and 2025, the months of Tishrei and October, and two specific dates within those months. Fortunately, the days of the week align on both calendars, otherwise life would be immensely
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How should a parent respond when their adult child decides to sue them because what he expected to get was less than he received from an inheritance (trust fund)? Joy Dear Joy, We assume you are not asking us for legal advice though we do find the idea of demanding a gift to be an
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One of my favorite writers is the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who opened his powerful classic Anna Karenina with the famous line: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. “When I first read it, I said to myself, “Lapin, Tolstoy is a deep and penetratingly insightful man, why
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