Cheder Menachem, a dorming cheder, drawing talmidim from Crown Heights, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, and beyond, with hands-on activities such as planting, harvesting, animal care, and building, is opening up registration for 7th and 8th grade for the upcoming shnas halimud.

Cheder Menachem, a dorming cheder, drawing talmidim from Crown Heights, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, and beyond, continues engaging learning combining Gemara and Shulchan Aruch with hands-on activities such as planting, harvesting, animal care, and building. This 8th grade focus will be on preparing for Mesivta, while the 7th grade program focuses on the bar mitzva year. It will guide the talmidim both in learning and in learning how to teach.

The expansive 70-acre campus of Cheder Menachem Mount Pleasant will host this much-needed learning program for boys.

Designed to seamlessly integrate learning and living, halacha will be mapped on our landscape from pasuk to psak. The talmidim’s advancement will be hands-on, as they plant seeds and harvest success. They will care for animals, build, create, and connect with Hashem’s world in real time.

The chinuch here allows for smoothly aligning daily life with learning in seforim. Many parents, seeing their wise children flailing in today’s ‘book and desk’-focused system, are longing for the recognition that some boys learn better in real-life settings. Cheder Menachem is bringing the Torah and Chassidus learning to life, bringing text to life, and bringing light and life back into the eyes of their beloved boys!

“Boruch Hashem, we saw a tremendous positive shift in the talmidim in their first year in the seventh-grade program,” says menahel Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Smith. “They have taken responsibility for their learning and davening and can see that the way that their brains work and their interests in animals and building and helping others is really the center of Chabad.”

“So many adults tell me how much this cheder is needed and they wish they had it for themselves instead of having to had endure what they went through as bar mitzva-age boys at a desk all day.”

As one parent testifies, “In Cheder Menachem our son has really blossomed, found his niche, and is developing independent skills in a way he never did before. He now loves to learn and is excited about it!”

The achievement of these future leaders is to be instilled with knowledge, with skills, and with an understanding of underlying principles. And the span of Bnei Yisroel’s story will be experienced in a contemporary chassidishe environment.

This innovative approach allows for the Rebbe’s wish to start the day with learning and continue the day building a Dira B’Tachtonim using skills, talents, and gifts, while allowing for students to breathe easy, with an on-site lake for kayaking, fresh air, opportunity, and an abundance of new experiences. Their chol will be made kadosh as the life of a chossid in Lubavitch resoundingly echoes in the day of a talmid at Cheder Menachem.

To find out more and register, visit www.chedermenachemmp.org

Cheder Menachem is also looking for rebbis and a limited number of bochur shluchim to join our team dedicated to this revolutionary approach.