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Living Museum of Chabad History at Monsey Cheder

Chabad history came to life at “The living museum of our Rich 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 historic Chabad towns of Liozna, Lubavitch, Rostov and later, New York – specifically Crown Heights.

In each town, the presence of the Rebbes who lived there was felt through the different drama presentations, slide shows, Sayings of Chazal or artifacts that were displayed. From town to town the travelers walked 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 painted a wall with the yeshivah of the Alter Rebbe, known as the “Chadorim,” with Cheder 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 one traveled to the town of Lubavitch, home to three Chabad Rebbes. The eighth graders had a lifelike shtetel complete with a working well, a pond with fish swimming around, as well as chickens and geese. Here too presentations were made representing the Rebbes who lived in Lubavitch, as well a museum of artifacts and a slide presentation.

Next, one traveled onto Rostov, where the Rebbe Rashab lived for the last four years of his life. In this room one met Reb Chonye Marozov HYD, a famous and devoted Chossid of the Rebbe Rashab, and learned about the life of the Rebbe Rashab with the help of the “Rostov tour guide,” one of the Seventh graders.

The Sixth Graders very artistically presented the life of the Frierdiker Rebbe, which began in Russia and ended 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 iz nisht andersh” – 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 Shvat the Rebbe took on the leadership of our generation, giving us the teachings and tools to prepare for Moshiach, May we merit to greet him now!

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