Rebbetzin’s Gift Shown to Guests

A unique gift given by N’shei Chabad to the Rebbetzin in honor of the 50th anniversary of her marriage to the Rebbe, was shown in public for the first time to a group of guests visiting New York for Chanukah.

By Anash.org reporter

A unique gift given by N’shei Chabad to the Rebbetzin in honor of the 50th anniversary of her marriage to the Rebbe, was shown in public for the first time to a group of guests visiting New York for Chanukah.

The gift was a globe made of pure gold, on a rotatable base, also of gold, with ten sides. On each side, another one of the Rebbe’s mivtzoim were engraved while on the globe itself, a small diamond marked every location where there was a shliach.

Commissioned by N’shei Chabad, the gift was crafted by R’ Yitzchok Barber a”h and his brother yblch”t R’ Avraham Barber, and given to the Rebbetzin in 5739 for Yud Daled Kislev of that year, which marked half a century since the marriage of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin in Warsaw in 5689.

Never shown to the public until last week, the gift was an an unique appreciation of the Rebbe’s mivtzoim and the shluchim he sent around the world to bring Yidden back to Yiddishkeit.

For decades, the gift was kept in the Rebbe’s house on President Street and the public could only hear of the unique gift, but not see it. Last week, a group of women and girls traveled from Eretz Yisroel to spend Chanukah by the Rebbe, and as part of their visit they also arranged a stop in the Rebbe’s house.

There, they were in for a surprise, when Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky decided to allow the women to see the special piece. The leader of the trip, Rabbi Tuvia Zilberstrom, who himself has been traveling to the Rebbe for Chanukah for over 40 years, and has been leading the women’s group for the past few years, was given the globe to show the women and girls. The girls were elated to be able to see the globe and hear about its history, realizing the special merit they had to see such the unique gift.