Shliach Gets PhD at University of Sydney
After 20 years of study, alongside his busy schedule raising a family, running a Yeshiva and the charity organization Our Big Kitchen, Sydney Shliach Rabbi Dovid Slavin has been conferred with a PhD at the University of Sydney.
Rabbi Slavin told CrownHeights.info that he made the effort to receive his doctorate to raise the educational profile of the Yeshiva Gedolah of Sydney, popularly known as “YG,” where he serves as dean.
On hand to watch the newly-named Rabbi Doctor Dovid Slavin received his honor were his family and acquaintances, as well as Professor Suzanne Rutland, who supervised Rabbi Slavin in his studies since 1997.
Rabbi Slavin completed his PhD thesis on the educational contribution made to Judaism by Rabbi Meir Shapiro of the Lublin Yeshiva in Poland. He especially focused on Rabbi Shapiro’s enduring imitative to have all the Jewish people study the Daf Yomi.
Professor Rutland told J-Wire, an Australian Jewish news outlet: “I am extremely proud of him. This is an amazing achievement especially when one considers that at the outset he had never received a secular education and had never studied English. He was examined at the highest level and all the examiners were international.”
An abstract (summary) of the thesis is presented below:
Mazal Tov!
Absolutely amazing! A real shliach who understands the way to enhance his community and shlichus. It is amazing that he did this at a proper university and took the long and hard road in this process.
Arieh
Mazel Tov Rabbi Dr. Dovid Slavin, shlit”a!
2 cents
many people in chabad have and live off a PHD pop has dough
Accountant in CH says...
Wow! This is unbelievable. Yiras shamayim, frum, & educated!
Former Camper
Is the PhD published? For sale?
former camper
thesis paper
Sao Paulo
Awsome!
Joel & Josh
he was getting this simce 1997
It took him almost 20 years lol
Rabbi Yaakov Lieder
Mazal Tov keep up the good work
We’re all very proud of you
kidush Hashem
That’s unbelievable.
This bring such kovod to shluchim and chabad around the world.
Yasher koach!
A fellow shliach
:-)
1) When could I read his dissertation?
2) We want more :-)
lifelight
Send this article to Yves Bolduc, the new minister of “Education” in Quebec. Yes. Not funding ALL yeshivas is anti-semitism at its best. Those who pay taxes deserve to have their schools funded.
Faigy E
Mazel tov Rabbi Slavin — I mean, Rabbi Dr. Slavin!