Rabbi Daniel Rabin, his wife Sarah Rabin and their children … new career challenge.

NAOMI LEVIN

NEW Chabad Campus director Rabbi Daniel Rabin knows the difference a rabbi can make to a university student — he heard about it from his father.

Rabbi Rabin’s father was a medical student in South Africa when he encountered a Chabad rabbi at university. He had come from a traditional Jewish home, but Rabbi Rabin said the encounter had sparked a new desire in his father.

“By the time I was born, my father had become religious,” he said.

South African-born and educated, Rabbi Rabin had hoped to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor too. But a year at a yeshivah after school saw him reconsider his career choices, and a few years later he earned his smichah in Pretoria.
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