Approximately 400 rabbinical students made a final stop in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., before heading out around the world as part of the popular “Roving Rabbis” summer rabbinical visitation program coordinated by Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch.

The students attended a conference at the Jewish Children Museum that focused on the various challenges they’d come across during their assignments, whether at a community synagogue on the East Coast, or across a swath of African backcountry.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, told numerous stories from the program’s long history, which began in 1943, and Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook of the Lahak Publication Society shared with the group several examples of guidance the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, gave program participants throughout the years.

Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn, who moved to the shadow of the Grand Teton Mountains to direct Chabad-Lubavitch of Wyoming after several visits there as a young rabbinical student, emphasized that each crop of students remain grounded in their own studies, even as they inspire the world around them.

“I can’t stress enough how important it is that you come prepared with Torah,” he said. “It is your best tool. At all times, you have to be cognizant of your mission and who you are representing.”