The Mahon Beis Haya Mushka in Dnipro began preparations for the celebration of 10 Shvat, the day the Rebbe became the Rebbe. This year’s theme is “Agavat Yisroel.”
Elementary school students were the first to start preparing for Yud Shvat, and on the eve of Shabbat, the Mahon held a big event with games, skits, and fun contests based on this year’s theme.
“The theme of this year’s preparation is ‘Agavat Yisrael,’ which is one of the topics touched upon and revealed by the Rebbe in the maamar,” Edna Yudovich, a Mahon teacher, told our website. “The girls watched the Rebbe’s video, learned a song about Agavat Yisrael, and the teachers presented a skit and played a game in which each student received a half heart with a special pattern. The girls had to connect their hearts and find their match, and then each pair of girls had to find something in common between them and tell everyone about it.”
All of the students of the Mahon have already begun studying the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s maamar for this year. As you know, the previous Rebbe, Joseph Yitzchak Schneerson, wrote a fundamental work consisting of twenty chapters, which was published on his Istalut 10th of Shvat, and his successor, the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, recited a maamar on one of these twenty every year. This year, the ma’amars of 5725 and 5745 are being studied (which corresponds to 1965 and 1985 according to the civil calendar).
“Every day until 10 shvat, one of the classes will show a skit on a topic related to the Rebbe and his manifestation of Agavat Yisrael to every Jew,” Edna Yudovich continues, “after which each girl receives a sheet with a question or riddle. For a correctly guessed task, you can get a heart with a letter from the word “And love,” so that by the end of the campaign, the girls can collect all the letters of this word. Also, every day of preparation for Yud Shvat, special envoys will walk around during the shift and ask questions related to the fulfillment of the commandment Agavat Yisrael, and for the answers received, the girls will receive sweet prizes.” 
