Editing Lubavitch (section)

==== The Period of [[the Rebbe Rashab]] ====
'''Extended article - Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch'''

In the summer of 5657 (1897), the Rebbe Rashab established Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch. He also began building a mikvah, but there were enormous obstacles, and it was decided to renovate the previous mikvah instead. The rav of the town of Lubavitch during the period of the Rebbe Rashab was Rabbi Dovid Jacobson.

During World War I, at the beginning of 5676 (1915), when the German army approached the Lubavitch area, the Rebbe Rashab decided to leave Lubavitch, and on 16 Cheshvan 5676, the Rebbe and his family left Lubavitch. While on the way, the Rebbe Rashab remarked to his son, the Rebbe Rayatz, that the Mitteler Rebbe had settled in Lubavitch in the month of Cheshvan, and now - one hundred and two years later, in Cheshvan 5676, they were leaving Lubavitch. He explained to him an interpretation based on the number 102 - the number of years that the center of Chabad Chassidus was located in the town of Lubavitch.

After the Rebbe's departure from Lubavitch, Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim continued learning in the yeshiva for another two and a half years. The last students left the town of Lubavitch, on their way to the yeshiva in Kremenchug, in late summer 5678 (1918).

Before the last group of yeshiva students left Lubavitch, they arranged all the remaining possessions, dividing and hiding them as much as possible. They dug deep in the basement of the Rebbe's house and hid the items there. After the departure of the last ones, the local non-Jews destroyed the Ohel (it was only rebuilt in 5726).

After the departure of the last yeshiva students from Lubavitch in late 5678 (1918), the municipality took over the Rebbe's courtyard. At the beginning of Nissan 5681 (1921), after the first year of the histalkus of the Rebbe Rashab, all the houses in our Rebbes' courtyard burned down within half an hour, and everything in the basements was looted and broken by the non-Jews.

Following the departure of the Rebbe Rashab and Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim from the town, the residents experienced a severe economic downturn, as most of the residents had earned their livelihood from inns and similar work dependent on the many visitors who frequented the town. The Communist regime ruling at that time added to the economic difficulties, and most of the town's Jews left for larger cities.
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