Why Giving Strangers a Key to Your Front Door Is Immoral To Your Spouse and Kids - 4/28/18

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Deep down, do you harbor a horrible little suspicion that accepting most migrants or refugees, (whatever you want to call citizens of other countries who want to live in America) is more moral than building a wall or stopping them at the border in any other way? Deep down do you suspect that it is more moral to help beggars in Bombay and derelicts in Djibouti than helping your own sister? Do any of the 535 legislators on Capitol Hill know of any moral framework defending national integrity? Does any State Dept. bureaucrat know of any moral framework validating border control? It sure doesn’t look like it, does it? And if you don’t believe in the morality of it, how can you accomplish it? No decent person can succeed at any enterprise that deep in his heart he considers morally reprehensible. Deep down they and their European counterparts believe that any South American has the right to live in Texas or Arizona and they believe that any MENA (Middle East North Africa) resident has the right to reside in France, Italy, Germany or anywhere else in Europe. Yet, there is one moral response to uninvited immigrants; one blindingly clear and compelling approach to the problem that is entirely moral and which your rabbi imparts in this episode detailing what happened when they poured into his house. 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 Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:16.6	Hi everybody. Welcome. This is the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show,
0:21.5	and I'm delighted to have the opportunity of sharing some time together with you,
0:25.9	particularly since the papers lately have been absolutely jam-packed
0:33.6	with heart-rending photographs of refugees trying to get into Europe.
0:43.3	Now, you might wonder what the date of this podcast is.
0:48.3	And the truth is that it simply makes no difference,
0:53.3	because what I'm saying now has been true for a long time.
0:58.8	Refugees have been dying, drowning in the Mediterranean.
1:04.1	They've been dying in trucks and trains, struggling to get from the meaner countries, Middle East, North Africa, into Europe.
1:15.4	And they get packed onto tiny, rickety, overloaded little boats that are supposed to take them to
1:23.1	Lampedusa, the Italian island that's nearest to the North African coast or to Sicily,
1:32.0	and in many cases into Italy or even into France directly.
1:38.1	Others have been going overland.
1:41.9	And whether they're going from Syria or Sudan or Somalia or from Nigeria or Libya,
1:49.3	the bottom line is that they are pouring into Europe. And they're all coming from the same areas,
1:59.7	North Africa, Middle East. And the photographs, they're all coming from the same areas, North Africa, Middle East.
2:02.2	And the photographs that the papers show and that you can see on television are tragic.
2:09.7	They're painful.
2:10.3	They evoke feelings of deep sorrow and mournful sympathy, particularly when the news media displaying absolutely no reticence
2:27.7	whatsoever, even show photographs of corpses and even those of women and children.
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