Your Rabbi Teaches Wisdom. But For Success, You Also Need Will Power

[@BrunoPereira-eb1oh]

Peace of God rabbi Daniel, I always listen to you, I live in Buckinghamshire 🇬🇧 , 🙏🏼

[@maputo26]

Dearest Rabbi, I always love your well rounded and eloquent explanations of how the world really works. Thank you

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Thank you dear friend. Keep listening. Cordially ~ RDL

[@blessingpereye1258]

Thank you Rabbi Lapin for sharing your wisdom with us. You are my Rabbi! Yours faithfully Nigerian christian lady

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

You are so very welcome, Nigerian Christian lady--I am happy to know of you in addition to our already large congregation of Nigerian listeners. It is wonderful for me to think of you all listening there in Nigeria. Till we meet, cordially ~ RDL

[@rosalindpacana1330]

Thanks a lot Rabbi Daniel L . ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

You're most welcome Rosalind. Thanks for writing. Cordially ~ RDL

[@tiar476]

This is excellent information, it's what my husband has been saying for years, and like you, he explains to me why. People do not apply wisdom with "information" that is fed to them. Quite ridiculous. God tells us to apply wisdom, and I don't think He just means with the Bible. So thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge. Bless you.

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Thank you Tia; your husband is a smart man. Cordially ~ RDL

[@WorldNewsandComment]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

You are really very welcome, Shana. It's my pleasure. Literally. There's a saying in ancient Jewish wisdom--"More than the calf wants to drink the milk, the mother wants to give it." Cordially ~ RDL

[@kanthonyable]

Rabbi, you have gained another listener from Trinidad and Tobago. Your wisdom & knowledge about life is vast and very astounding. Thank you for taking the time to educate us. May God continue to bless you & your family

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Dear Jane--I so appreciate your kind words. I'll just confess to one thing, and that is that the wisdom and knowledge you kindly mention is hardly mine. I never would have figured it all out. This is all ancient Jewish wisdom passed down over many years and which I was fortunate enough to have great teachers for. Thank you for listening therein Trinidad and Tobago. I think I may now have enough listeners to make a good visit! Cordially ~ RDL ( www.RabbiDanielLapin.com)

[@jaredhammonds8255]

Thank you, Rabbi!

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

You're so welcome Jared. I appreciate you writing. Cordially ~ RDL

[@BrandonAOrtiz]

Rabbi Lapin, thank you so much for your wisdom!

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

You're very welcome Brandon, and the only caveat I must issue is that I wish it was 'my' wisdom. It isn't. It is ancient Jewish wisdom which I had the great privilege of having been taught. All I do is make it accessible to you. With great pleasure! Sincerely ~ RDL (www.RabbiDanielLapin.com)

[@LyndonJames570]

Dear Rabbi Daniel Lapin, I would like to extend my gratitude to you for all that you do. Your words of wisdom have helped me beyond what I can express in words. You have helped me in getting back in touch with God, whom I have foolishly ignored for so many years. I’ve also recently purchased some of your books and I have been reading the bible out loud a minimum 3 times per week! So I would just like to say thank you sir, you are a light in dark places. Keep up the great work. Kind Regards, Lyndon McNaughton

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Your kind letter is so valuable to me Dear Lyndon, your generous words uplift me. Thank you. Blessings ~ Rabbi Daniel Lapin

[@Sol-sm5ub]

Thank you Rabbi Lapin, please come to Australia we love you down here! Faithfully, Benjamin

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Dear Benjamin, I can hardly wait. I know I will love Australia and her people. I appreciate your very kind words. Cordially ~ RDL (www.RabbiDanielLapin.com)

[@Sol-sm5ub]

@@rabbidaniellapin. Your most welcome Rabbi, you have many friends in Melbourne, I love your books and learn so much from your podcasts, I just signed up to your new journey through the bible program, its incredible. Bless you Rabbi Lapin. Faithfully Benjamin

[@LidewijDiederik]

Thank you so much for this video, Rabbi. Technical explanations are very interesting, not boring at all. Learned a lot today. God bless you and your family.

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Great to hear from you again, Lidewij, thank you. I greatly appreciate women who appreciate the occasional technical discussion. Cordially ~ RDL (www.RabbiDanielLapin.com )

[@chief1b]

i enjoyed the podcast. Yes keep on with the statistics I did not know about battery energy. Cheers!

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

I'm so happy to have been helpful Thomas Cordially ~ RDL

[@hermanmoreno9217]

Self driving cars are already here.

[@misskim2058]

Thank God I’ve cut out all forms of media other than selected videos from the selected people. I never hear all the silly hype. I know a lot of people that live on the ocean front property and have done for decades and none of them have noticed any “rising of the seas“, and if anyone would know it would be the people that live right there where they would see it if it happened and they would know because they’ve been at their whole entire life. Electric vehicles have far too many problems although I did see a really cool one in a silent video from early last century it’s probably easily 100 years old now, where two girls carry the suitcase out of their apartment and set it up on the sidewalk as a pop-up car and got in and drove away. It was really cute, and probably held enough energy to get them to the corner deli and back. And Susan Lapin... Don’t worry, plenty of us ladies can follow technical parts quite easily and find it interesting. I personally prefer a muscle car, stick shift. I’d like to keep my mind and body engaged. There’s no substitute for the pure joy of driving a stick shift... Especially when it glides like butter. I collect stick shift sports cars, so if anybody wants to give me one in working condition, or if it just needs a little clutch work, tires, or a starter/alternator/battery or distributor, that kind of easy stuff, I’ll happily take it! Apparently the newest generation is completely confounded by having to operate both feet and one hand at the same time.

[@misskim2058]

Don’t mind the typos, they’re complements of Apple, it’s always changing my writing, after it’s written correctly, sometimes at the very last second it switches random words, often to obscenities, so I suppose I should be glad it didn’t do that… That being said, I correct my own mistake. I misspoke. A stick shift requires both feet and both hands at the same time, not just one hand. One does like to keep a hand on the wheel to maintain control of the vehicle, especially when the legs are so engaged, shifting gears and pausing and resuming acceleration. That’s no time to enlist the help of a knee (which one rarely does, of course, and not in heavy traffic or at high speeds).

[@crazyr605]

Rabbi I like your work, but I was curious if you could address how your message is not, in stark contrast to the main character of the New Testament and His message. Particularly about money (Matt 6:24, for example).

[@rabbidaniellapin.]

Dear Crazy R, your question is easy for me to answer. I am a Jewish rabbi; I teach the ancient Jewish wisdom that has sustained the people of Israel for 3,000 years and made them disproportionately successful. Though I dearly love my many Christian friends, I am not a Christian and have no knowledge of the New Testament. I am really happy you like my work and if it brings you greater understanding and greater achievement and greater deeper happiness, then my cup runneth over. (Old Testament, Psalms 23:5) Cordially ~ RDL

[@misskim2058]

I can add something to your question. #1: Don’t ask people questions about books they do not read. And #2, it is an insult to imply that this vid had anything to do with the issue of serving Mammon instead of the God of the Bible (which to our Jewish brothers and sisters is only the Old Testament, so I’m sure you didn’t mean to, and you didn’t know any better, but in the future, please don’t ever expect them to refer to it, it’s offensive to most of them, few even know it was written by Jews, they have a different perception of what do they think it is, and fake Christianity hasn’t helped that at all... Suffice it to say it’s insulting to many of them to refer to it in a way that presumes they read it), and to Christians is both the Old and New Testament, the latter being the collection of writings of Jews who lived in Jerusalem during the Roman occupation, as Christians know, but others do not. It is a common misconception that it was written by Romans or has something or anything to do with Catholics and Catholicism, which is actually paganism... The Romans did not like the liberating message, and certainly did not want to support anyone following the God of the Jews. Not only because He is the only God that is really God, so they were seeing the results of God backing up these followers of him, adhering to the teachings of the NT Rabbi, and they couldn’t explain it, so they weren’t happy about that, but also it was costing them money when people were not spending their money trying to appease Roman gods and goddesses. This was a debacle of epic proportions, and because the results were so astounding, it was an actual threat to the Roman Empire. How do we know this? Because of how they responded to it. That’s how. We can watch what they’ve done for the last 2,000 years, and follow their little trail all the way down through the centuries, and it all spells “damage control“ to the oppressors of the world. They have tried every which way to deter people from simply Doing. What. It. Says. Doing...what it...Says...to DO! Do! People love to hear, but it’s the doing part that matters. So, they filled people’s ears... With very carefully selected passages, with all the man-made additions and plenty of omissions. And above all, the omitted the most important DO parts. They gave the world plenty of don’ts, and some dos, but carefully eliminated and distracted people from the critical parts. They still try to do that, even with the translations in everyone’s hands, they keep trying to say that God really didn’t mean that part or this part, and that that particular Rabbi of the NT, the “troublemaker” (because anyone that gets God behind him is a troublemaker in the eyes of an oppressor) definitely didn’t mean YOU when he gave his instructions to the world. They would love for you to believe that he wasn’t talking to you, when he was most definitely talking to everyone of us. (John 14:12, as just one example). Since those who followed the teachings committed no crimes, lived moral and honorable lives and respected and worshiped the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all this didn’t sit well with the Romans, who wanted to be worshiped themselves, and wanted their gods and goddesses to be worshiped. They tried torturing, imprisoning, and horrifically murdering those who follow the teachings of the Rabbi to whom you refer. That did not stop their commitment to God. So, the Romans decided to pretend to join them (it’s that good old “if you can’t beat them, join them, or at least pretend to join them, and steer them all off a cliff“ tactic) and made a ***counterfeit*** (paganized) version of Christianity (which has absolutely precious little to do with true Christianity), Catholicism is almost Luciferian, it actually is Luciferian in many ways... .... understandably, if people of the Jewish faith think that Catholicism represents Christianity, it’s very understandable that they would want nothing to do with it. And the Romans made this fake version their national religion... And proceeded to do all kinds of abominable acts in the name of God, defiling his name. This was done to both defile the name of God, and to steer people away from the true teachings of the Rabbi of the NT, who taught from the Old Testament, of course, as they all do. So many horrible things were done by these Romans with regard to pretending to represent the teachings of the Rabbi of the NT, that most of the world doesn’t really know who he is and even what he taught, their perceptions are like fun house mirrors at some carnival, they have a distorted perception. And this was the handiwork primarily of the Romans and the Catholic church, which made a bastardized, vile version, adding all kinds of pagan rituals, wedging themselves between people and God. This is not what the Rabbi taught. He is the man of Isaiah 53. The statistical probability of him fitting even 5 or 10 of the detailed descriptions of the OT are beyond astronomical, but he fits them all. His lineage, all of it. Fits like a glove. The Romans turned him into some mockery of this. They added all sorts of their pagan demigods, they just changed their names to Jewish names, further defiling the Jews who gave their lives to get the message out, and teach people about God. People are actually proud of things like Saint Jude‘s hospital… I know the whole story behind it, the promise to build it if only St.Jude would save his career. That’s all well and noble, and Saint Jude being the saint of lost causes is… Pagan. God is the God of lost causes there are no patron saints! Then you have the “patron saint” of travel, Saint Christopher… Also a pagan idol. You can go down all the Catholic “Saints“, they are just pagan idols God is the God of all those things! If there are any Jewish people reading this, you have to know that has nothing to do with real, true Christianity, and the New Testament is absolutely NOT about Romans and their evil pagan idolatry that’s Catholicism has foisted on the world. The true teachings were stolen and twisted and made into a mockery of God. Call NO MAN “father”, for ***I AM** your Father. What part of that don’t they understand? You don’t go running to anyone but God for these matters. His arm is not shortened, he has no need for the spirits of the dead people to help him, that is necromancy, and it is forbidden.

[@misskim2058]

This is why the “Protest-ants“ and the “Catholics“ have been fighting for centuries (and people that say that Protest-ants are somehow “rebellious” and that they should stop protesting, clearly don’t realize that what they are protesting is the blatant defiling of the name of God and paganizing his Word! Of course they need to speak up and say that it is wrong, because it is wrong. You should not be creating statues and kneeling before them and asking them to do favors for you, God says to come to him for that. He hates the repetitive prayers of the heathen, it says so in the Old Testament. People that just recite prayers... God is not interested in a recital, he’s interested in a conversation, that means sometimes you also listen. So, Protestants and Catholics have been fighting for centuries, because the German Martin Luther (and keep this in mind because there has been retaliation because of this truth-speaker), had the audacity (in their perception) and the courage (in the perception of the people) not only to translate the Bible so that everyone could read it and decide for themselves, and so Rome could no longer lie to the people about the God of the Jews, so he had it translated not just into German, it also got translated to English and printed and placed into the hands of everyday people (who had to keep it hidden from the oppressive priests who told them they would go crazy and even die if they read the Old Testament, and made even more dire predictions if they ever read the New Testament, because that’s where God has made the most powerful covenant with the world, (first to the Jew, then to the Gentile), if they say yes to it. Not if they don’t. God never forces his blessings on anyone. And many people suffered brutal torture and death for doing this, translating and printing the Word of God, the owner’s manual to living on earth. They gave their lives for all of us to have this information, and great effort has been made to wipe it off the face of the earth, because only then can all the people truly be oppressed... And many people are playing right into the reverse and double and triple reverse psychology about the Bible, both the Old and about the New Testament as well. It says to come and reason together it never says to just believe it blindly, as so many think it says, and God doesn’t mind you testing him, he just doesn’t want you tempting him. He does expect us to have to learn to discern whether we are being deceived or not. So, it’s OK to follow what it says and expect results, that’s testing it, but not stand in front of a Mack truck and expect not to get run over, that’s tempting him. Anyway, Martin Luther also had the chutzpah to list 95 ways that the Catholic church defiles the Bible (both Old and New Testament) and nailed it to their door… keep in mind, these were the vicious pagan Romans, faking godliness, and they didn’t take too well to being called out on this, and they still don’t take too well to being called out on it. but the facts are the facts and if you read the Bible the Catholic church absolutely positively engages in what God calls heathen behavior. They do things that he absolutely despises and forbids, and there’s no way around it. I seem to be the only person to notice the significance… He did this on 31 October, 1517. No two ways about it, he was telling them that they are satanic liars. They wanted control over the people, they lied to the people, they are still lying to the people. They took out the commandment regarding idolatry and simply split another into two parts to cover up for the missing commandment. They did this to different ways usually it’s the one about coveting that is split in two, because they are so idolatrous, their people might not bow down to their statues and talk to Mary and dead saints if they knew that commandment. God says to come to HIM, and only to him, you don’t go around begging the Rabbi’s dead mother for favors or to “intercede” as they like to call it, nor do you harass his dead disciples or idolize them, either. This is necromancy, and it is idolatry. And that means it it ungodly. That particular Rabbi said that though peace is preferable, he didn’t come to placate the world, but to set things right. And part of setting things right is to point out what’s wrong, and call corrupt leaders to repent, and to return to God’s Word, and not wander in their own ways, following their own “wisdom”. So, of course he was considered an “instigator”, when all he did was continually, continually, continually refer to scripture in the Old Testament. That’s all he did. And because they had wondered so far away from it, they didn’t like the stark contrast. They didn’t like him quoting scriptures that they had defied. They certainly didn’t like him educating the people about what the Scriptures said if it conflicted with what they were making the people do. All he ever did was kept steering people back to God, back to the OT scriptures, and they hated him for that. Of course, they had become very comfortable in their corruption, and the common people were responding and had new hope again, like their ancestors had had. The leaders were not pleased, but he never wandered away from the Word of God, and that they couldn’t stand. It’s just like the Catholics now, they can’t stand it if you point out where they are going against the Word of God, either, and they do it a lot. It would help our Jewish brothers and sisters if they would at least read Revelation, then they would recognize that Rome is the whore of Babylon, and at least not hold current (and historical) Roman religious actions against actual real Christians, and not be deceived by any proclamations attesting their behavior has anything to do with a real Christian. I don’t blame are Jewish brothers and sisters for despising such teachings, they are, in fact, evil and blasphemous. I despise their false teachings as well. They took what was holy, and joined it with paganism, and first by force, and then by false teaching, they have lured many people into believing that they are following what the Rabbi of the NT taught. And the reason they believe they are following him, it’s for the same reason most people fall for lies... There’s just barely enough truth to make the poison go down without too much bitterness for most people except for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. I could always feel the evil, fortunately I did not have to go to such a church, but I did have to go to another church for a small time, when my parents joined a cult that pretends to follow him but also has added their own blasphemy. I won’t even name them, and thank God I chose to endure punishment for refusing to go, I didn’t want things put into my head that I would have a hard time removing, so I simply refused because I could sense their falseness.

[@misskim2058]

And there are too many fake counterfeit versions of Christianity, (as the Rabbi of the NT warned there would be, and of course, he never called it “Christianity”, others called it that, but he warned the world there would be many counterfeit versions of the teachings, and people claiming to be the Messiah (and even some who would claim to be Jews) who were not) and sadly, the world judges what it is supposed to mean by all these counterfeits. Imagine if you judged how good a Rolex watch was based on all the counterfeit ones sold on eBay, and in alleyways, and at flea markets, and in the streets! That’s what people are doing to true Christianity. Most people are buying a knock off, and hating on it. Others are buying a knock off, and following it, thinking they have the real thing. A good indicator is if they are following a religion with a titled name on it, they are probably following a counterfeit. The true church is just people who study and follow and take action on the true teachings. Like that Rabbi of the NT said, “it is not what you are outwardly, but what you are inwardly...” This is what the world primarily sees, and it’s no wonder they want nothing to do with it. But they are not learning what it is. They are not following the wisdom of King Solomon who says only a fool determines a matter before getting all the facts. Some people reject the New Testament and they won’t even read it to see what it says. I did that too. I was the same fool. I would not listen to the Bible at all, because of what everyone else told me it said. then I realized it only an idiot does that, so I decided that unless I read it myself, I had no business coming to any sort of conclusion about it. I also decided that if so many people were against it, and that the Catholics would make up so much nonsense… Because I could see just from the Spanish Inquisition in the crusades and the witch trials that clearly they weren’t representing any sane, moral God, that they had to be covering something they did not want the every day people to have. There was this glaring, obvious point… What would possibly make that big, bad, world-dominating, invasive and most vicious and dreaded Rome become fearful of some average, every day, common people? How do we know that they feared them? because they took a particular effort to eliminate them, and do it in the most violent and degrading ways, beyond their normal attack on people, this was a teaching that they went out of their way to wipe off the face of the earth. So, then I had to ask myself what was so terrible about these teachings that they had to go out of their way to put a stop to them, and when they couldn’t put a stop to the teachings, they pretended to adopt them, but then they took them and twisted them into some sadistic, pagan and obviously misrepresentation of what any godly God would be. Now, I didn’t know all of what the teachings were, obviously we’ve heard stories of the good Samaritan and to love one another and to not let Satan pluck up the word of God and steal it from our lives, and that God rewards those who increase what he has given them and will take away what he has given them if they don’t grow it, and will give it to someone else who will. (and this should answer your question if you’re thinking there’s some issue between which master to serve… Just remember in the parable of the talents, that the servant who hides his money and does not double it is considered the “wicked servant“. What he had was taken away and given to the one who did the most with what he was given, and a talent was not a skill, it was a measure of money. It can include a skill as a secondary or tertiary meaning, but that was not the original meaning. Counterfeit Christians think there’s something wrong with money, but God knows you are in a material world with a body and you can’t just sustain yourself on spirituality alone. The blessings of Abraham included personal relationships, employees, land, vineyards, and yes...gold and silver as well. God doesn’t “bless“ people with poverty. … And for those of you that think there’s something wrong with drinking, then you are calling that NT Rabbi a sinner, and he was not a sinner. God said not to be a glutton and let alcohol become your master, He said not to rise in the morning to drink all day, he said not to drink so much that you pass out and wake up in your own vomit... he did not say to never drink it at all. Wine maketh the heart glad... There are plenty of Bible references in favor of wine and even strong drink. God expects you to exercise some personal responsibility, he didn’t expect us to live in this world without some buffers and without celebrations. He also said not to let food, work or even rest become your master, but you don’t see Christians swearing off eating food at all, or ever working, or ever resting. And taking a “vow of poverty” is also evil. That is telling God that you don’t want his blessings and you’re basically telling him to shove it. God is trying to bless them and they’re saying “no, no, no, I prefer my false humility and my religious pride”. That’s just another evil satanic lie from the Roman pagans that called themselves Catholics and even worse, they call themselves Christian, when they or no more Christian than a person who eats steak every day is a vegan. If you go against the teachings you can’t call yourself that… I suppose you can call yourself that, but if you do, you’re a liar, and you are misrepresenting what you claim to be. Someone can call themselves faithful to their spouse, but if they’re sleeping around, they’re not actually faithful. They’re liars. Likewise, Catholics are not Christians. They’re liars. They are pagans who have stolen a little bit out of the Bible. That’s all. As usual, they have added burdensome and pagan man-made doctrines, and anyone that twists the Word of God and adds what they want has disqualified themselves as His children. Now, at first, when I realized I would be just as big an idiot to condemn something without reading it, I didn’t know all of what the teachings were, obviously many people have heard stories of the Good Samaritan, and to love one another, and to not let Satan pluck up the word of God and steal it from our lives, and that God rewards those who increase what he has given them and will take away what he has given them if they don’t grow it, and will give it to someone else who will, and the stories of Noah (which has a lot of exciting genetics to prove it, no it did not need to bring every animal he needed to bring the alphabet for every animal… Of every kind, not every animal, meaning 2 or 7 (unclean and clean) canine, feline, equine, and so forth, and the continent broke up during and after the flood and drifted apart over time after the animals had spread out, and even to this day when there’s an impending earthquake or tsunami or other such impending doom, all animals, both predator and prey run in the same direction so they would’ve run straight to Noah... On the one big continent that the world do used to be, and after the waters subsided, it was broken up but not yet spread out and as they bred, their genetic expressions continue to express just like from 26 letters and a few punctuation marks we can write novels like the one I’m writing right now on this page. The genetic code could express in so many different ways that explains the different versions of canine, feline, and equine and so forth . And they will find that the Bible is right, our actions and our beliefs and what we speak will alter our genetics it’s part of our genetic expression and it’s part of what we pass down just like the Bible says)...

[@misskim2058]

Many people have heard of Abraham, and Joseph, and Moses, and the Red Sea, and 10 Commandments, the Red Sea, and King David, King Solomon, and so forth, basic Bible stories. And more and more evidence is coming forth to support the story so people can no longer pretend that it’s “historical fiction”. No, it is not fiction, it’s the most reliable source of human history that there is and it’s how this world works I have been saying for a long time that it is the owners manual for this world and you can try to get along ignoring the owners manual in your car, but if someone tells you to go fill up the tank and you think that means you can put anything you want in it, you’re not going to get anywhere unless you use the right fuel. Sand or sugar or lemonade will not do it. So, starting out, I didn’t know that much about the Bible except that people were using it to bash people over the head with and it was being misused to oppress people. So there was a time when I thought that’s what it was a book to keep people down, but that’s exactly what the fakers want you to believe of course so that you won’t get in there and read the liberating parts that empower people, The parts that hook people up to God because we were never meant to live here without God. That is why Rome did not want the teachings of the Rabbi of the NT to get out. When people follow them, they were free of fear, they honored God and refused to worship Roman idols or anybody’s idols, and of course, they had more success in life in general. Naturally the ones teaching everyone took a beating from all sides, the corrupt leaders of the region, regardless of their religious affiliations, did not like the liberating message and they even worked together to put a stop to them. Some religious leaders did not want everyone having a direct relationship with God, they had a spirit of religious pride and wanted to be a little bit superior or a lot superior to everyone around them. And many still do. They get very angry at the thought of losing control over others. Pretty much if they have a title, they are a counterfeit version. The “one true church“ to which Christianity refers cannot go against anything in the Old Testament, or they are instantly disqualified. Since Catholics engage in all sorts of necromancy and idolatry, they are disqualified, as are the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mormons, and so forth. But their actions are NOT what the Rabbi of the NT taught. And even though most rabbis will not read it, I think primarily because it has been so misrepresented, and it is often believed to have been written by a Roman or there are other things I won’t go into but what it teaches is in line with the Old Testament. Just don’t expect most Old Testament-only people to respond to questions about the New Testament. Many despise it (even if they have not read it), but many have also been given a background about it that would turn anyone off if they truly wanted to serve God. Like the Old Testament, if you just believe what everyone says about it, then of course it would be a turn off as well. But neither is what the world says they are. They do usually remain respectful to those who have read it, and embraced the Rabbinical teachings therein, and this is a testament to their wish to maintain harmony, and show kindness, even though they believe it goes against the OT. And with that belief, they are demonstrating restraint and respect, when inside they don’t feel that way at all, and in that regard, they are taking the high road. I don’t know how many of them know it was written by Jews, and written for Jews first, but also to Gentiles, and in constant reference to the prophets and teachings of the Old Testament, and of course, anything that would conflict with the Old Testament would be considered blasphemy, (which is why we know Catholicism and Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses and other organized religions are counterfeits and blasphemous). So there’s nothing in Matthew 6:24 about serving two masters that in any way suggested in anything Rabbi Lapin teaches. He carefully explains how people get confused about what God really wants and he understands that many people have attributed things to Maman that are actually of God and vice versa, but he does not get them confused. He is well-versed in the Old Testament, and nothing there conflicts with the NT, so what he teaches won’t ever be in conflict with it, even if he doesn’t read it. It isn’t part of their beliefs, but that doesn’t matter to us in any detracting way, because the core truths of the Old Testament stand in the NT, and he lends great insight to both the Old and New Testaments. God doesn’t change, but sometimes out understanding of Him needs to change. Christians often do get things upside down, such as God’s stance on alcohol, he wouldn’t be blessing all his most faithful with an abundance of vineyards if he had an issue with it. He would not have it among the list of things to bring to the temple as offerings to Him, both wine and liquor, if He had an issue with it. Then you hear arguments about “in these days, it’s a real problem“. Well, newsflash, it’s always been a “problem“ to people who allow it to become their master, but the same could be said for food, work, lying around, or pornography, stealing, and any number of other things. It’s not more of a problem than it was then. God expects us to keep ourselves in control, and the way that we make sure none of those things become our master is to always keep Him as our master. (And I will reiterate that nothing that Rabbi Lapin teaches in any way ever conflicts with God being our master. And if you meant something differently by referring to that particular scripture, all apologies. As always, all typos and duplications are complements of Apple, I try to catch them all, Then I rely on my faith in the general intelligence of the reader to correct what may appear to be a reversal of meaning or in obscenity that gets thrown in or whatever it may be...