Avraham-Hersh Borshevsky

http://www.borshevsky.com/ledodi.htm

Fragment from Song of Songs, 6:3
"I AM MY BELOVED'S AND MY BELOVED IS MINE", Hebrew & English

Artprint on fine paper, handfinished with gold paint
Dimensions: 11.3"x13.7" (unframed)
Price: $40

Avraham-Hersh Borshevsky was born in 1970 in small North-Ukrainian town Korosten and grew up in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), were he got his artistic education in the Arcitecture department of the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute . In 1990 Avraham made "aliyah" to Israel, where he was enrolled to Jerusalem Yeshiva "Shvut Ami". In 1994 after extensive and thorough study of the Jewish Scribal Art laws Avraham was granted a Certificate of Torah scribe by the Jerusalem "Mishmereth STaM" Halachic Committee of Jewish Scribal Arts. In year 2000 he was granted a Certificate of the Expert for Jewish Scribal Arts.

Avraham Borshevsky’s art blends together artistic and Jewish traditional religious schools; the scribe joins the continuum of centuries old tradition of the masters of Jewish Ceremonial Art by specializing in the field of the illuminated manuscripts since 1998. Parchment scrolls and books of Holy Scriptures embellished with gold leaf and silver and decoratively masterpieces of calligraphic compositions on some chapters and verses of the Book of Psalms meet the canonic demands of Judaism, apart from their artistic value, and therefore can carry out their ritual function. Despite of his conspicuous achievements in the field, A. Borshevsky continued to explore the subject of Western, Jewish and Chinese calligraphies with the leading Israeli masters.

In 2002 Jerusalem and, in 2003 Moscow witnessed immense success of his personal exhibitions. A year after, in 2004, written the scribe wrote the Mezuzah that was universally recognized by the outstanding religious institutions and academic experts in Israel to be the largest Mezuzah ever written in the World's history. The Mezuzah was recorded into the Guinness World Records™. Israeli Rabbis pointed out significance of the fact: "The event has conspicuously consecrated the Name of the Creator in the world! The beauty of the calligraphy in the Mezuzah has no rival!"
The International Maimonides Prize is the most sought for prize in the Jewish world. Laureates of the prestigious prize are granted a hand-written parchment Dyploma done by Avraham Borshevsky.

All of Avraham's works are distinguished for their powerful imagination and filigree technique. By now one can find them in the synagogues, offices and the houses of outstanding rabbis and Hasidic Spiritual Leaders, of politicians and conspicuous public figures, in prestigious art galleries and private collections of those who know the value of Jewish Ceremonial Art.