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Rabbi Daniel Lapin: “I Eat Because I Am Able to Serve You.”

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Mar 17, 2026
Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a Conservative rabbi, author, and speaker on prosperity and Jewish wisdom. He argues you learn to love work by doing it. He frames service and identifying others' needs as the route to prosperity. He discusses specialization, hiring to make supervisors' lives easier, and earning by serving people's deficiencies.
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ADVICE

Get Skilled By One Hour A Day For 90 Days

  • Do invest consistent, small daily effort to develop a skill you can use to solve a specific problem for others.
  • Sean Croxton suggests one hour a day for 90 days yields ~61 hours, enough to beat most people at that problem.
ADVICE

Win Jobs By Making Your Boss's Life Easier

  • Do seek roles where you specifically make your supervisor's life easier and add to the bottom line.
  • Rabbi Daniel Lapin says in interviews he hires people who focus on improving the business and easing their supervisor's workload, not on long-term personal dreams.
INSIGHT

Love Comes From Doing Not Finding

  • Learn to love the work you do rather than expect to find a preexisting passion job.
  • Rabbi Daniel Lapin argues most professionals didn't miraculously find a dream job; they learned to love their work while doing it.
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