Ep 18 | Find Your Way to God, Gold & Greatness Using a Microscope, Never a Telescope

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Is everybody’s work equally valuable and important? How can you tell the difference? I respect all humans who behave consistently with being created in the image of God, but do I respect all career choices, occupations, and professions equally? No, of course not, and neither do you. There are several key things to bear in mind when choosing a career path. What attributes does sprinter Usain Bolt share with an oil rig worker and a dentist? What does a professor of race and gender studies share with a graffiti artist? A surprising number of people think that the moon landing in 1969 was a hoax, but what actual benefits did it yield? Do you know what a black hole is? Do you care? Do you know what a dental implant is? Do you care? Most things you care about came about because of microscopes, not telescopes. Why do you probably respect mechanics and musicians more than astrophysicists and artists? Lastly, you should be finding your connection to God through an ear rather than through a galaxy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.
0:06.8	This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand.
0:10.0	On the Blaze Radio Network.
0:15.1	Welcome all you happy warriors to the Rabbi Daniel Appenen show where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world
0:26.6	really works. And I call you happy warriors because this show is focused not just on your bodies,
0:39.9	but on your souls as well.
0:50.4	And every single listener to this show, if you are a regular listener to this show, I can assure you that you have a young and vibrant soul.
0:51.4	What is more?
0:56.8	We're all happy warriors because in order to live productively, you've got to fight every single day. You've got to fight against the forces of entropy, if nothing else. You
1:02.2	fight to maintain your possessions. After all, everything is trying to rust. Everything needs paint.
1:08.7	Everything needs constant repairing. That's a fight. You fight to
1:12.3	build and maintain your family. Yeah, every single day there's a challenge there. You fight to
1:17.8	maintain your business or your profession or your career because there are challenges to that
1:22.5	all the time. Life is a fight. And that's a good thing because to stop fighting, to stop seeking and to stop striving, well, that's to die.
1:32.8	And I call you not just warriors, but happy warriors, because to throw yourself into the fight for eight or ten hours a day, six days a week is one thing.
1:43.1	But to do all that consistently with a debonair
1:46.8	smile on your face and a jaunty pace to your stride, to do all that while generating an
1:54.0	irrepressible surge of happiness welling up in your soul, well that means that you are spiritually
2:00.2	grounded in everything that is life-affirming.
2:02.9	It means you're devoted to your faith, your family, your finances, and your friends, knowing that
2:08.7	ultimately you can triumph over those who both intentionally and unknowingly promote a dark abyss of satanic secular socialism and all the many evil social
2:23.4	pathologies degenerates. When I reveal how the world really works, it's in the hope that you
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