Portraits of Rabbanims - The Lubavitcher Rebbe

We are pleased to present to you a reproduction of the works of a very young Israeli artist: David Braka . His drawings are reproduced on 9oz velvet paper, of very high quality. His know-how, his hyper-realistic style will make you appreciate his works representing The Rabbi of Lubavitch, Mena'hem Mendel Schneerson .

Available in different sizes for all tastes and all budgets: 7,9"x11,8" - 11,8"x15,7" - 23,6"x15,7".

To feel the Blessing of the Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch close to you!

THE LUBAVICH RABBI

The Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, better known as: The Rebbe is considered to be the most extraordinary Jewish personality of modern times. For thousands of faithful and millions of sympathizers around the world, he was the one who is responsible more than any other, for a renewed consciousness and spiritual awakening of the Jewish world .

Apart from a first master with whom he will take his first steps, his father will be his only tutor. For his human qualities, his mother will relate belatedly that he jumped at the age of ten into the frozen Dnieper (a river in Eastern Europe) to save a drowning child. After having volunteered as a first aider, he was almost killed by typhus.

In Berlin, where the future Rebbe would attend university, and a large number of Jewish intellectuals whose city still honors itself (he later remembered having seen Albert Einstein playing the violin there) In 1933, the rise to power of the Nazism made them leave Berlin for Paris. There, he will attend the Sorbonne and other establishments of higher education while reviving the spirit of the many refugees whom the turmoil begins to pour into the City of Lights. He also provides a daily course at the oratory at 17 rue des Rosiers.

From his stay in the French capital, the Rebbe will keep all his life a particular attachment to French Judaism, whose history later will make him well. Even to the point that during a memorable Simchat Torah in 1974 in New York, attended by some five hundred French people, in front of a dumbfounded community, he made the French dance to the tune of the Marseillaise which he sang to the words a hymn to the glory of Gd, recited on Shabbat and the Feasts in the synagogue.

On Shevat 10, 5711, January 17, 1951, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson sat in the seat left vacant by the departure of his father-in-law a year earlier and became the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe. His profession of faith can be summed up in the dissemination of the Torah and its values.

His smile will leave no one indifferent and no one can resist a movement of his arm when he asks to increase the vigor of the song, or when he brings two fingers to his mouth to ask to whistle.

On 3 Tammuz 5754, June 12, 1994, he disappeared from the eyes of a world which still resounds daily with his teachings on all horizons of the planet, leaving us the promise of Deliverance and the injunction to work on our own forces, as well as those of the depths of the soul, to concretize its advent.

Who is David BRAKA?

David Braka born in Nice in 1993. It was from an early age that he began to show an unusual love for drawing and painting. Student of the School of Fine Arts in Versailles , he decided to give up everything to find his land, Israel, and pursue his inner spiritual journey.

It was during these yeshiva years that the artist began to represent the Rebbe of Lubavitch, followed by other great names.

"I want to represent the force of the Torah. I want this force to be palpable, to be able to touch it.".

Combatant in the army then raises to Betsalel School of Fine Arts , David now lives in Jerusalem with his wife and son, and tries to create "a new art, close to every Jew and every human being".

• Designed by Israeli artist David Braka
• Available in 3 different sizes: 20 x 30 cm - 30×40 cm - 60×40 cm
• Sold unframed