I have been listening to your podcasts for roughly about two years now and find them very insightful on God’s word and relevant to the times and seasons, thank you for being a blessing. I come from an African household where my father was the main provider as he had a very stable and well-paid...
I have recently become a passionate audience of your ancient Jewish wisdom show on tct.tv. I do gain a lot of understandings of why Jewish people are so successful, especially in the business world. Many of the teachings I have learnt so far are related to the faith. But that doesn’t seem to explain why...
With the current stock market losses can you explain where the loss in value goes? Brad Great question, Brad, May we try to put it into concrete terms? Suppose you owned a stock in the Weem, Acheit & Sellate Widget Company for which you had paid $10. Now you want to sell it but...
Dan Ariely is an Israeli-American teacher at Duke University in North Carolina. I think he’s smart and very well educated. Based on his weekly column in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal he is often insightful and entertaining. However, his recent answer to the question of whether people’s salaries accurately reflect the value...
I have listened to a few of your podcasts that talk about the perils of income disparity between spouses, where the wife earns more than the husband. I’m a guy, and frankly the topic terrifies me because I’d rather drive nails through my feet than face the prospect of divorce because of this kind of...
“Money, money, money…” sang Abba in 1976. What is it? It is funny how challenging it is to define. Is it those metallic discs clinking in your pocket? How about those strips of colored paper in your wallet? How about when you write a check? Is that money? What if you write on a...
Here’s an unusual thought experiment: Imagine meeting a twenty-year-old man who is suffering from near total amnesia. He explains to you that he knows how to read and write, drive a car and live healthily, but has no idea at all of what he ought to be doing to prepare for successfully living the rest...
What is your opinion of bitcoin? It would seem that it does not exist in the true sense and does not serve other human beings. Investments only have value when other people place a value on them. Jeff N. Dear Jeff, We’re getting a strong urge to start this answer by saying that nothing in...
Years ago, the little yeshiva in Skokie, Illinois, had a pathetic basketball team. Just a bunch of slightly nerdy kids stumbling around the court. Their star forward dribbled like a drunk trying to stomp a cockroach. They were so low in the Jewish schools’ league that they usually fell off the bottom of the page....
The Jewish “New Year”, Rosh Hashana, has just ended. I have been privileged to be teaching in Jerusalem where several people have asked me the same question. If God judges every human on this holyday, and furthermore He determines the fate of everyone including their financial fortunes, why bother working? Everything is up to God …
