Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a noted rabbinic scholar, best-selling author and host of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show on San Francisco’s KSFO, will be speaking on “What the Bible has to say about marriage” at 9 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. on May 3 at Bayside Community Church, 25992 Barber Cut Off Road.

Lapin is the president of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians, and his publishing company, Lifecodex Publishing, brings ancient Jewish wisdom to readers around the world. His eloquence and ability to extract life principles from the Bible and transmit them in an entertaining manner has brought countless numbers of Jews and Christians closer to their respective faiths. In 2007 Newsweek magazine included him in its list of America’s 50 most influential rabbis.

Before immigrating to the United States in 1973, Rabbi Lapin studied Torah, physics, economics and mathematics in Johannesburg, London and Jerusalem. According to Lapin, this seemingly unlikely combination forms the bedrock of his conviction that no conflict exists between the physical and spiritual, virtue and strength, or faith and wealth. He quickly became persuaded that God continues to smile on the United States of America and he became a naturalized citizen on what he describes as the proudest day of his life.

“The more things change, the more you must depend upon those things that never change” is a theme the rabbi injects into his presentations. His latest project is the production of audio CDs that present thousands of years of Jewish wisdom emanating from the Bible, in ways that impact and improve modern day life.

An enthusiastic boater who has sailed his family across the Pacific, Lapin lives with his wife Susan who home-schooled their seven children on Mercer Island.