You're listening to Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

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

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show.

Me, your rabbi, reminding you that the more that things change, the more we must depend

on those things that never change.

And one of the things that never changes, and never will change,

is our human relationship with something called money.

And it's worthwhile making sure that not only do we understand it,

but that those for whom we are responsible,

those whom we either brought into the world biologically or those whom we are bringing into the world spiritually by teaching, by educating, by acculturating them, by essentially making ourselves responsible for teaching them how the world really works.

None of that is possible without an understanding of money.

And if there's one reality that we can learn from the past few decades,

it is that the public perception of anything really does shape real-life outcomes.

And one frightening change during this period has been a war on wealth conducted in response to a growing public perception that somehow the rich got that way by stealing

from the poor.

Now this perception includes the idea that wealth-producing activities are faintly unseemly, and that economic activity causes rather than cures poverty.

There is a way to restore the prestige of business success that requires a return to tradition.

In order to examine it, we have to analyze the nature of money.

As we look around us, we cannot help but fail to notice

that there are phrases that are used which reveal how people really think.

The most insidious of these is the one you always hear commentators using whenever a well-known philanthropist makes some major gift to a charity.

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