Rabbi Daniel Lapin discusses Biblical insights on financial success, communication, and family.
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well Eli it is surprisingly difficult to give money away without causing more more harm than help people don't always realize that but if you're not sure just look at the life history of lottery winners who suddenly get 10 million dollars and and you see lives almost invariably that have deteriorated and are unrecognizably miserable it is very very difficult to give large sums of money or for that many even smaller sums of money away without causing harm rather than help very very hard you think you know what it takes to make a lot of money well our next guest knows what it takes and he knows what it doesn't take we're going to discuss a couple of the reasons people think they need to have or know to make some money and he completely obliterates those reasons very insightful episode we spoke about lessons from the bible about money what it takes to live a happier more gratitude-filled life we spoke about charity we spoke about the lottery you think you want to win the lottery after listening to what rabbi lappin says i don't think you're going to want to win be like no no no i can really use the 50 million go easy there tiger without further ado i give you the one the only Rabbi Daniel Lapin being a jew awesome managing personal finances not so awesome welcome to kosher money welcome back to kosher money privileged to have another returning guest rabbi daniel lapin from south africa now living in the states welcome back oh south africa's a long time ago ali a long time ago actually i don't pardon me i've been back to different parts of africa as a speaker i've been brought back to uh to various countries but but i've not been back to
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