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The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Ep 35 | How to Master the Curiously Complicated Machinery of Marriage

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Most women want to give themselves to men they consider worthy of their surrender. What if the man of your dreams turns out to lack ambition, masculine mastery, and money sense? Let's revisit the time I took a strange woman dress-shopping. Is the man you’re married to now the product of your behavior over the past few years? Most women would like to be married to a man taller, smarter, and richer than they are. Think about boys who grow up with weak fathers and the spiritual power of divorce. Learn how and why a big city prosecutor found happiness as a small town kindergarten teacher. Avoiding the dangers of fantasies and daydreams is imperative. A woman’s physical affection increases her husband’s masculinity. The perils of 19 year-old bikini babes. Why are there no divorced couples in the Bible? 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.

0:05.9

Never change.

0:06.8

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

0:14.7

Welcome everybody and thank you so much for being part of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin's show.

0:22.4

You know, life is complicated, and one of the most complicated aspects of life is marriage.

0:31.6

I think it not an exaggeration were I to say that the operation of marriage is a more complicated enterprise

0:46.3

than the operation of almost any complicated piece of machinery.

0:58.2

Now, it's just that marriage is so common.

0:59.9

We see it all around of us.

1:07.2

Many of us are in one that we tend to sort of think of it as intuitive as having a birthday.

1:09.8

It just happens.

1:16.2

And just as you get older, just as you get wiser, so you get married.

1:27.2

It's just one of those things. And it's very easy indeed to overlook just how complex it really is.

1:37.4

Now, the reality is that most people acknowledge that they are happier in a good marriage.

1:43.9

Married people, particularly in a good marriage, are far happier than single people.

1:51.9

In general, are there those people who have made a more than the best of a situation and are single, not necessarily through any choice of their own, but are single and

1:57.6

live fulfilling and wonderful lives, absolutely.

2:03.4

But I'm thinking in particular, and as you can imagine, I've had many, many years of

2:11.8

experience in counseling as a synagogue rabbi and in other capacities.

2:18.7

And it's very easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying and sort of suggesting that trite

2:26.5

solutions exist for all conditions.

2:29.7

Obviously, none of that is true.

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