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

This is Rabbi Daniel Abbin, on demand.

On the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome, all you happy warriors and eager devotees of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show, where your rabbi reveals how the world really works.

And we're going to take a look today at just how it is that a culture and a civilization, once rooted in dignity and discipline, has now deteriorated to one based on desire and dependency.

And perhaps a place to start might be the old riddle you might remember from childhood.

It goes something like, no, not something like this,

goes exactly like this.

Three people go to a restaurant or a coffee shop, shall we say.

And they each order a coffee with a pastry or whatever.

And eventually the waiter arrives with a bill the check and it's for two dollars and

fifty cents shall we say the each of the people takes out a dollar bill and puts it on the

waiters tray and the waiter goes back with the check for $2.50 and three separate dollar bills and he comes back

with 50 cents in the form of five dimes. So he thinks to himself how am I going to give five dimes back to

three people? So I'll make this easier. He gives

himself a tip of 20 cents, so he drops two dimes in his own pocket, and then he returns to the

table with three dimes, and he gives each person a dime back, and everybody is happy. They leave it

at that. But now, our question is that we're stuck with a little

bit of a financial paradox, which is what? Well, the men paid how much? How much is each person paid?

Well, that's easy, right? Because each person put a dollar out

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