OYYL Girls Enjoy Hands-On Trip About Sheitels

OYYL Elementary Girls Division had the special opportunity to visit a local sheitel macher Sheeba Wigs for a hands-on explanation about the mitzvah of head covering,

Every summer, Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch invites its students to step into a world that is both deeply rooted in the past and powerfully alive in the present.

Through its summer program,  Journey Back to Lubavitch, the students travel through the rich history of Lubavitch: the Rebbeim, the Rebbetzins, the children of the Rebbeim, and the prominent Chassidim who shaped the life and spirit of each generation. Each week is dedicated to a different era, personality, and atmosphere, allowing the children to enter the world of Lubavitch not only through stories and lessons, but through experience.

As part of this unique curriculum, the students also explore what daily life looked like in the old shtetl. They learn about the different baalei melachah – the craftsmen and workers who helped build Jewish life in a very practical way: the carpenters, farmers, bakers, blacksmiths, shoemakers, and others whose work was woven into the rhythm of community life.

But at OYYL, history is never taught as something distant or frozen in the past. The goal is to help the students connect the world of yesterday to the world they live in today. The trips and hands-on experiences are designed to help the children see how the concept of a baal melachah still exists, though in different forms, in our own community and in our own time.

This week, the OYYL Elementary Girls Division had the special opportunity to visit a local sheitel macher, Sheeba Wigs, located at 1564 Union Street, 2nd Floor, run by Mrs. Chani Hasis and Mrs. Tania Zikvashvilli.

The girls were thrilled as they entered the beautifully arranged space. What could have been a simple trip quickly became a meaningful and memorable chinuch experience. The students heard a detailed explanation about the mitzvah of head covering, the beauty and dignity of kisui harosh, and the Rebbe’s hora’os regarding covering the hair with a full sheitel.

Mrs. Chani Hasis, the co-founder of Sheeba Wigs, shared with the girls the personal story behind her involvement in sheitels. She explained that her journey began from a deep desire to help make beautiful sheitels more accessible and affordable, so that more women would be able to fulfill this precious mitzvah in a beautiful, dignified, and mehudar way.

The girls were fascinated to learn how sheitels are made, what goes into selecting hair, designing the piece, creating a natural look, and preparing a sheitel so that it can be worn comfortably and beautifully. They were able to see the wigs up close, touch the different textures, ask questions, and even try on some of the display pieces.

The energy in the room was electric. The girls were curious, excited, and deeply engaged. What they were learning was not theoretical. It was alive. They were seeing how a mitzvah connects to craftsmanship, skill, care, beauty, and real life.

Mrs. Mila Schneiderman, founder and vision director of Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch, shared that the trip was a beautiful example of the OYYL approach to chinuch.

“This was such a meaningful and hands-on experience for the girls,” she said. “They were able to explore the mitzvah in a practical way from a young age. We are setting the foundation stones of perception early, so that their appreciation for Torah and mitzvos is solid and strong enough to withstand the winds from the outside.”

She added that this is the broader vision of OYYL: to raise children who do not see mitzvos as abstract obligations, but as beautiful, living treasures.

“At OYYL, our goal is to be mechanech children to fulfill mitzvos in the most mehudar way, with knowledge, practical understanding, emotional connection, and deep appreciation. When a child sees the beauty of a mitzvah up close, it becomes part of her inner world.”

The visit to Sheeba Wigs was more than a trip. It was a bridge between past and present, between the shtetl craftsmen of old and the skilled Jewish women today who use their talents to help others fulfill mitzvos with pride and beauty.

Through experiences like these, Journey Back to Lubavitch continues to bring history to life — showing students that Lubavitch is not only something we learn about. It is something we live.
We are deeply grateful to Sheeba Wigs and to Mrs. Chani Hasis and Mrs. Tania Zikvashvilli for opening their doors so warmly to our students and creating such a meaningful, hands-on exploration. Their patience, warmth, and detailed explanations helped the girls experience this special mitzvah in a way that was real, beautiful, and memorable. It is a true zechus when local community businesses partner in chinuch and help bring Torah, mitzvos, and Chassidishe values to life for the next generation.

For more information about the OYYL summer program, visit:
www.OYYL.org/camp

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