"Bar Mitzvah," 2006
"Desperation," 1993
You might say that the same man's "desperation" in 1993 turned into a Bar Mitzvah 13 years later! No longer was he desperate, he had his son's Bar Mitzvah to celebrate.
See The Works at His Website
Artist R' Refoel Eisenberg (circled) at a Farbrengen with the Rebbe, 5732. Oy, how many of those pictured here are no longer with us! It seems that he's drawing the Rebbe while seated there.
At his home studio
Why are you mentioning him?
ReplyDeleteNice portraits btw.
Do you know him?
I c that he lives in BP,not CH
I remember that in the past someone posted some of his work on their blog as well:
ReplyDeletehttp://asimplejew.blogspot.com/2007/03/paintings-of-raphael-eisenberg.html
If memory serves me correct, Raphael Eisenberg was one of 5 artists whose works were on display at the Brooklyn Museum 1976 exhibit titled, "Five Hasidic Artists in Brooklyn." The others were: Michoel Mochnick, Moshe Shloss, &, of course, Hendel Lieberman & Zalman Kleiman. (I am not sure about Hendel, since this may have been right after his petireh.)
ReplyDeleteAlso note at the extreme left in the farbrengen picture,, bending over the table is a young Meir Abhasera. For some reason, he is sitting in front of the Rebbe, not in his usual place behind the Rebbe, waiting for the signal to begin whistling.
Besides the presence of Ushpal, Zhamke Gurary, Piekarski, Pinson, Motel Shustermnan, Zalmen Shimen Dvorkin(?), et al., I think that that is Fole Kahn in the extreme right of the picture, first row.
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yes it is Reb Foleh Kahan. Whom else do you identify?
ReplyDeleteStanding:
ReplyDelete1)? maybe Nachmon Sudak, head shliach of England;
2)?
3) Zelig Katzman, an emeser chasidisher yid;
4) Yankel Shvey, one of the current rabonim of CH (meshichist);
5) Moshe Sklar (son of the shoychet Elye Nochum Sklar), who is an eydem of Yaakov Shorr, R"Y of the Malochim yeshiveh Nesivoys Oylom in Williamsburg (who was brother of R"Y of Torah Va'Da'as Gedaliyeh Shorr);
6) Leibel Kaplan O"H (son of the ba'al tfileh Nochum, of Breslev origins I think), head shliach of Tsfas;
7) Levi Bistrisky O"H (son of Leibel, who had his famous store on Essex LES), Rov of Tsfas;
8) ? maybe a Friedman
9) A Shpalter?
10) Ganzburg from (& shliach in) Milan, Italy?
11) Yakov Goldberg, R"Y of the ba'al tshuvah yeshiveh Hadar HaTorah?
Bending over to the left of Eisenberg is Heyshke (Hirshl) Ganzburg, the ba'al hamenagen of the Rebbe's farbrengens (he started the nigunim), co-owner of Empire Press, & subject of Liz Harris' "Holy Days."
I think Sklar is leaning on Reitzes.
To the right of Motel Shusterman is a Russian whose name escapes me (looks a little like Dovid Okunov, but I do not think it is him); to his right is Alenik, I think.
To the right of Reb Zalmen Shimen may be Meir Abhasera's borther (looks like him), who I think Meir brought to farbrengens sometimes.
There is yet another ba'al tshuveh in this picture: to the right of Shiye Pinson it appears to be none other than Yerachmiel Tillis, co-founder/director of Ascent Institute of Tsfas, & English translator of the Rebbe's mother Chanah's memoirs, titled "A Mother In Israel."
Agav, the reason why there are these BT's in the crowd & in such prominent seats is because this was the year (1972-3) that Meir aka Michel Abhasera, who was then the leader of the Zen-macrobiotic movement in the U.S., was becoming frum, &, naturally, many of his devotes followed suit. There was a macrobiotic community in Binghamton NY that he was leading, & when he started going down to NYC to see the Rebbe, everyone else followed, & before long, with the help of some bochurim who went Upstate to help out spiritually, nearly the entire community (which was practically Jewish anyways) became Lubavitch!
[The official "rov" of this frume BT macrobiotic kehileh was Rabbi Professor Akiva Greenberg, mekurov to Vizhnitz Monsey, who later became rov of Carlebach's Moshav Modi'in, especially when Shlomo was not there. He may still be teaching sociology in Tuoro -- pipe, cane 'n all -- un a shtreiml af shabes noch dertsu!]
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ReplyDeleteTo the right of Reb Zalmen Shimen may be Meir Abhasera's borther (looks like him), who I think Meir brought to farbrengens sometimes.
There is yet another ba'al tshuveh in this picture: to the right of Shiye Pinson it appears to be none other than Yerachmiel Tillis, co-founder/director of Ascent Institute of Tsfas, & English translator of the Rebbe's mother Chanah's memoirs, titled "A Mother In Israel."
Agav, the reason why there are these BT's in the crowd & in such prominent seats is because this was the year (1972-3) that Meir aka Michel Abhasera, who was then the leader of the Zen-macrobiotic movement in the U.S., was becoming frum, &, naturally, many of his devotes followed suit. There was a macrobiotic community in Binghamton NY that he was leading, & when he started going down to NYC to see the Rebbe, everyone else followed, & before long, with the help of some bochurim who went Upstate to help out spiritually, nearly the entire community (which was practically Jewish anyways) became Lubavitch!
[The official "rov" of this frume BT macrobiotic kehileh was Rabbi Professor Akiva Greenberg, mekurov to Vizhnitz Monsey, who later became rov of Carlebach's Moshav Modi'in, especially when Shlomo was not there. He may still be teaching sociology in Tuoro -- pipe, cane 'n all -- un a shtreiml af shabes noch dertsu!]
-- ZIY
ZIY
ReplyDeleteLeibel's father was not Nochum - his brother is Nochum...
His father was Moshe Binyomin I think, and they were Olam'ishe, not Chassidim at all. The Zeide was a Rov in Kiev - Nit kein Chossid. Leibel O'H was named after him. The zeide sent his son to Lubavitch to save him, despite not being a chossid.
ERRATUM: Leibel Kaplan, son of MEYLECH Kaplan.
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ah, I see now. You meant the other Leibel, from Montreal, ya? He was MB's brother, and they STILL were not from Breslover.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is that they said that Melech Kaplan had some connection to Breslov at some point. Same with Estulin.
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Tzig, u can delete the redundant posts. Thanks.
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איך גלייב ניט אז די קאפלאנס האבן געהאט שייכות צו ברסלב
ReplyDeleteNu, oder yo oder nisht. BTW there were Lubavs who lived amongst Breslovers, like Chazkel Brod.
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אוי
ReplyDeleteChatzkel Brod is from a Breslover family! He joined Lubavitch in Russia altz bochur!
Actiually, it seems that Chazkel Brod's family was Breslov:
ReplyDeleteFrom breslov.co.il :
http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/breslev/customs_and_thought/techelet_the_blue_thread.aspx?id=2207&language=english
"An interesting historical note is found in the late Rabbi Yechezkel ("Chazkel") Brod’s autobiography, Chassidic Light in the Soviet Darkness (HaChai: Brooklyn), p. 142, where he tells how as a yeshivah bachur, he asked the Rebbe RASHAB of Lubavitch for permission to put on the Tefillin of Rabbenu Tam in keeping with the wish of his father, Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Brod, who was a Breslover Chassid (at that time, Lubavitcher Chasidim did not begin to put on Rabbenu Tam’s Tefillin until they reached age twenty). The RASHAB assented, commenting that in this way Reb Yechezkel would fulfill two mitzvot: that of donning Rabbenu Tam’s Tefillin and that of kibud av."
I am not sure how accurate this is, because I doubt Chazkel was at gil hamitzvos while the Rashab was b'chayim.
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it was most likely the Rebbe Rayatz/FR
ReplyDeleteReb Moshe Yaraslovsky was also from a breslov background
ReplyDeletedo you mean Yeruslavski?
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