Girls Experience Chabad History

Chabad history came to life at the living museum of Chabad history created by the talented students and teachers of Cheder Chabad Girls School of Monsey.

A walk through the museum took you through the the historic Chabad towns of Liozna, Lubavitch, Rostov and later, New York, specifically Crown Heights.

In each town the presence of the Rebbe or Rebbeim who lived there was felt through the different drama presentations, slide shows, sayings of Chazal, or artifacts that were displayed. From town to town one had to travel along dirt roads lit only by lanterns, with many trees lining the side of the road, as well as ducks and other animals.

The first town one visited was Liozna, where the fourth graders had painted a wall with the yeshivah of the Alter Rebbe, known as the “Chadarim” Cheder with Aleph, Beis and Gimmel. Another wall depicted different facts about the life of the Alter Rebbe. The town of Liozna was divided into different stations with displays made by different girls in the class. The first station was a diorama, the second a Power-Point presentation and the third a story told through pictures. The last was a market place where a children’s book about the Alter Rebbe in full color was “sold.”

From Liozna we traveled to the town Of Lubavitch, home of 3 Chabad Rebbeim. Our Eighth graders had a lifelike town complete with a working well, a pond with fish swimming around, as well as chickens and geese. Here too presentations were made representing the Rebbeim who lived in Lubavitch, as well a museum of artifacts and a slide presentation.

Next we traveled onto Rostov, where the Rebbe Rashab lived for the last few years of his life. In this room one met Reb Chonye Morozov hy”d, a famous and devoted Chosid of the Rebbe Rashab, and learned about the life of the Rebbe Rashab with the help of the “Rostov tour guide,” one of our Seventh graders.

The Sixth Graders very artistically displayed the life of the Frierdiker Rebbe which began in Russia and ended up in America. The display came complete with a boat that brought him to these shores. The message that one walked out with from there was the lifelong message of the Frierdiker Rebbe, that “America is nisht andersht” – America is no different than the Old Country in Europe.

Lastly the Fifth graders created a lifelike scene of Kingston Avenue leading to 770, home of our Rebbe, where on Yud Shevat he accepted the leadership and taught our generation, giving us the teaching and tools to prepare for the coming of Moshiach.