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The Author

 

Avraham Borshevsky (b. 1970) is Hebrew calligraphy artist and master scribe (sofer-STaM). A member of The Israeli Professional Visual Artists Association and IAA/AIAP. A government supplier. Two-time Guinness World Record Holder.

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Borshevsky lives and works in Jerusalem and creates unique and custom designed works of art, which are distinguished by the original design of ancient texts and the virtuosity of their execution. Complying with Halachic law, he creatively extends the Jewish ceremonial art tradition and has devoted himself to creating original parchment manuscripts based on sacred Hebrew Scriptures and Gematria. Artworks of Avraham Borshevsky are located in museums, synagogues and private collections of dozens of countries around the world.

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Avraham Borshevsky was born on Hanukkah 1970 in the small Ukrainian city of Korosten, USSR. Soon the family moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He studied there an academic drawing and art history at the Faculty of Architecture of LISI. Borshevsky studied Hebrew on his own. He continued his Jewish education, which he began as a student, with the rabbis of the Shvut Ami Yeshiva in Jerusalem. ​Avraham studied the Talmud with Rabbi Shlomo Bamberger*. After professional training with Dr. Michael Khanin* and passing exams with Rabbi Mordechai Friedlander* of Mishmeret STaM, Borshevsky became a certified sofer, i.e., a master scribe of sacred Jewish scrolls (1996) and, since 2000, a certified expert of it (bodek).

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In 2004, Avraham Borshevsky scribed a unique kosher Mezuzah parchment recognized as a masterpiece of Hebrew sacred calligraphy. It has been documented by Guinness World Records™ as the world’s largest. Covered in major media, the sensational appearance of Borshevsky's mezuzah inspired and continues to inspire creative Jews from different countries to set new world records related to the biblical commandments and Jewish Tradition. Avraham’s mezuzah set another Guinness World Record, becoming the most expensive mezuzah in history. It became a highlight of the World Calligraphy Museum’s collection in Moscow.

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Borshevsky provides calligraphy services for official meetings at the Israeli President’s House in Jerusalem. This includes handwritten presidential Guest books for all official meetings with visiting heads of states, foreign ministers, and all new ambassadors to Israel.​

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In the Certificates of Honour of the Israeli Memorial Institute Yad Vashem, Borshevsky writes in Hebrew, English, French, Polish and Russian the heroic names of the “Righteous Among the Nations” who selflessly resisted the Holocaust.

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*Rabbi Shlomo haLevi Bamberger (1926, Hamburg - 2015, Jerusalem — a direct descendant of the author of the book “Melekhet Shamayim”)

*Dr. Michael Khanin (1947-2023)

*Rabbi Mordechai Friedlander (1943-2017)

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