Auction 49
Lot 067:
Around 340 original pictures, in color, documenting the stages of construction of the 770 building in Kfar Chabad, made to look as an exact replica of the building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Includes pictures from the location’s dedication, which took place during a bar mitzvah for orphans of IDF martyrs, in Tammuz 1986. A few are duplicates and a few are in black and white. Kept in 4 albums, very good condition.
At the Hisvaadut in Tammuz 1985, the Rebbe asked his chassidim to build in Kfar Chabad a building that would serve as a center for the spread of chassidus in Israel, whose name would be “Beis Agudas Chassidei Chabad.” The Rebbe ordered that the building be a copy of the Chabad World Center in Brooklyn, so that those who could not reach the original could enjoy the copy in Kfar Chabad. On the 26th of Tevet, 1986, the cornerstone-laying ceremony took place, with rabbis and public figures in attendance. In Shvat afterward the building commenced, by the contractor David Merari and the Domer company.
Before Pesach the structure was in place, but construction was stopped because of a lack of suitable materials in Israel. After a break of around a month, the Rebbe sped the laborers on and called for an end to the construction by the Chag Geulah on 12th of Tammuz. At the beginning of Sivan the “Terracotta Ofakim” Factory began to create red bricks that would mimic the brownstone bricks with which the original was built, and the work continued apace. By the end of the construction around 150 laborers worked on it and within 33 more days they finished the project.
The 770 in Kfar Chabad (officially: Beis Agudas Chassidei Chabad – Ohel Yosef Yitzhak Lubavitch, also known as Beit Agoch (the acronym) or Beis HaRebbe) is an exact replica of the Chabad World Center in Brooklyn. There are offices there of the Chabad organization, a synagogue and Kollel, and there is a visitors’ center.
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