More than 100 students from an Israeli yeshiva serving the Ger Chasidic community spent a day in the village of Kfar Chabad learning about Chabad philosophy and Jewish agricultural laws dealing with the year of shemittah.

Their first stop was at the life-size replica of New York's Lubavitch World Headquarters before going on to visit several locations in the agricultural commune.

The trip represented a chance for the urban dwellers to see up close farm personnel keeping the biblical command to mark out one year out of seven for the Land of Israel to rest. …