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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

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On Today’s Show:

You think your family is dysfunctional? You have nothing on the families of the first book of the Bible! Dennis offers profound lessons from the Genesis family tree that can help us with our own family problems.

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0:21.8	Soul on Fire.
0:23.3	Rated PG.
0:24.0	Prental guidance suggested.
0:25.1	In theaters, October 10th.
0:26.4	For tickets, go to soul on firemovie.com.
0:31.4	Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
0:35.0	Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,
0:39.5	and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles.
0:42.1	Go to Dennis Prager.com.
0:49.4	Always one of the biggest challenges of my ear, what talk about Rosh Hashanam Kippur,
0:56.8	because they're supposed to be important talks, and that's my aim.
1:05.5	And so among the many other things, I ask myself, should it be about personal issues, should it be about philosophical, religious,
1:13.6	like the first night of Russia Shana was the 17 principles of Judaism?
1:19.6	Well, you can't get more personal than this topic.
1:24.6	And I, like I suspect, even one of you have learned a lot about this. I may have learned more than some because I think I started out more naive on the subject. The subject is the family and its troubles.
1:49.0	So I want to begin with the Torah.
1:53.0	The Torah does a favor, and I mean this absolutely sincerely.
2:00.0	I think the Torah does us a tremendous favor by having every one of the
2:08.1	families in the entire book of Genesis dysfunctional. And I mean it with utter sincerity.
2:19.7	It's a great service.
2:24.0	Jews revere the patriarchs and the matriarchs.
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