RABBI DANIEL LAPIN
1. Business—Religious aspects—Judaism. 2. Success—Religious aspects—Judaism. 3. Wealth Religious aspects—Judaism.
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| 322 p |
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ISBN
| 978-1-118-74910-4 (cloth) 978-1-118-74920-3 (ePDF) 978-1-118-74914-2 (ePub) |
Copyright©
| 2014 by Rabbi Daniel Lapin |
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, noted rabbinic scholar, best-selling author, and
host of The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Radio Show on San Francisco’s KSFO,
is one of America’s most eloquent speakers. He is famous for his ability
to extract life principles from ancient Jewish wisdom and make them
accessible to people of every background. He is credited with encouraging
vast numbers of Christians and Jews to re-embrace their respective
faiths. Newsweek magazine included him in its first list of America’s
fifty most influential rabbis. With his wife Susan, he hosts the daily television
show Ancient Jewish Wisdom on the TCT Television Network.
He is president of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians,
(www.aajc.org), the national organization promoting Biblically-based
Judeo-Christian values and is one of America’s most compelling voices
in defense of what he calls Ethical Capitalism.
Before immigrating to the United States in 1973, Rabbi Lapin
studied Torah, physics, economics, and mathematics in Johannesburg,
London, and Jerusalem. Rabbi Lapin was the founding rabbi of Pacific
Jewish Center, a now legendary Orthodox synagogue in Los Angeles.
Rabbi Lapin is a frequent speaker for trade groups, political, social,
and civic institutions, financial conferences, organizations, and companies.
He also speaks regularly at synagogues and churches around the world.
An enthusiastic boater who has sailed his family across the Pacific
on their own boat, Rabbi Lapin lives with his wife Susan, who homeschooled
their seven children on Mercer Island, Washington.
Final Thoughts
Now that you have come to the end of this book, I have one
last lesson to impart. Taking in all of the knowledge contained
within this book has probably felt like a long journey. But
there is one more journey that this material must make. It is not a journey
from my mouth to your ears—that has already happened. It is not
the journey from your ears to your brain. Again, that has already happened.
You now know what you need to do. The final journey is for the
information and wisdom contained in this book to move from your head to your heart.
You have to now transition from knowing what to do to actually
willfully doing it. And you have to want that. It is easier for us to do
what our heart wants than what our heads tell us we should do. You
must therefore move everything you learned from this book from your
head to your heart so that you will actually want to employ the tips,
tools, techniques, and principles previously discussed.
Do this, and these biblical business secrets will become not only a part
of what you think and what you know, but also a part of who you are and
how you live. Do this and making money will no longer be an unpleasantness
to be endured for 40 to 50 hours a week. Making money will
become your calling. You will integrate your soul and your body, unite
your values with your work, and be filled with the delight of serving
God’s children each minute of your working day. You will know that each
and every dollar that flows into your bank account is yet another eloquent
witness to the effectiveness with which you have served others.
May God bless your efforts and your diligence in following
this Biblical blueprint and may bountiful abundance be your lot for all your days.
Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Secret #1: God Wants Each of Us to Be Obsessively Preoccupied
with the Needs and Desires of His Other Children 1
Secret #2: An Infinite God Created Us in His Image with Infinite
Imagination, Potential, Creative Power, and Desires 5
Secret #3: Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves 9
Secret #4: The Universe Was Created for Connection 17
Secret #5: Making Money Is a Spiritual Activity 28
Secret #6: Everything Important and Joyful You Have Achieved
Has Been in Partnership with at Least One Other Person 35
Secret #7: Focus on Other People’s Needs and Desires, and You
Will Never, Ever Be Short of What You Yourself Desire and Need 44
Secret #8: Become a People Person 53
Secret #9: We Love the People Whom We Help More Than
We Love Those Who Help Us 64
Secret #10: Life Isn’t About What You Know—It’s About
Who You Are 71
Secret #11: In Order to Achieve Success, We Must and
Can Build Up Our Self-Discipline, Integrity, and Character Strength 80
Secret #12: Your Authentic Identity Requires Other People 92
Secret #13: Know How Business Works; Understand
Specialization and Cooperation 96
Secret #14: Each and Every One of Us Is in Business
and Should Act Like a Business Professional 107
Secret #15: Develop All Four Dimensions of Your Life
Simultaneously 111
Secret #16: Earnings and Profits Are God’s Way of Rewarding
Us for Forming Relationships with Others and Serving Them
Faithfully and Effectively 121
Secret #17: Raise the Limits on Yourself and Others by
Imposing Boundaries and Structures 128
Secret #18: The Importance of Service Is That You Cannot
Lead If You Cannot Follow 136
Secret #19: Vision Is Necessary; Sharing That Vision Is Not Always
Necessary 140
Secret #20: The Most Important Organ of Leadership Is
Your Mouth 146
Secret #21: Change Is Scary 151
Secret #22: As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains
the Seeds of Growth 158
Secret #23: Because Change Is a Constant Reality, Life Is
More Accurately Depicted by a Video Than a Photograph 162
Secret #24: The More that Things Change, the More We
Must Depend Upon Those Things That Never Change 168
Secret #25: Press Forward Even When the Road Ahead
Is Not Clear 177
Secret #26: Do Not Let Your Fear Conquer You—Press On 185
Secret #27: Become Strongly, Even Radically, Open to
New Directions, Soft Sounds, and Faint Footsteps 190
Secret #28: Use the Power of Words, Sentences, and Sound 198
Secret #29: Feeling Right About Money Makes You Act Right 205
Secret #30: You Can Best Attract That Which You Best
Understand 214
Secret #31: You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must
Be Able to Measure and Count 219
Secret #32: Money Is Spiritual 223
Secret #33: Don’t Live Beyond Your Means—Give
Beyond Your Means 233
Secret #34: Giving Money Away Makes You Feel Wealthy 238
Secret #35: How You Feel About Yourself Is How Others
Will See You 243
Secret #36: Giving Money Away Automatically Connects
Us with Other People 246
Secret #37: If There Is No Hebrew Word for Something,
Then That Thing Does Not Exist 254
Secret #38: Retirement Is Unhealthy 261
Secret #39: You Can Ruin Today by Planning Bad Things
for Tomorrow 265
Secret #40: Retirement Tends to Isolate You 271
Final Thoughts 283
About the Author 285
Index 287
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Copyright © 2014 by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. All rights reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Published simultaneously in Canada.