Palette knife oil portrait of the Alter Rebbe in a blue and red kippah, white beard in thick knife strokes, the title page of the first Tanya behind him and the Hebrew verse ki karov eilecha hadavar meod in large colored letters down the right side
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The Alter Rebbe,
Ki Karov Eilecha

Price on request71 by 89 cm. All inclusive. Insured delivery to your door.

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The Alter Rebbe in blue and white, the title page of the first Tanya ghosted behind him, and the verse the Tanya is built on climbing the right edge one word at a time, from red to blue to green.

In Kislev 5557, the winter of 1796, a book came off the press in Slavita. Its title page called it Likkutei Amarim and, beneath that, Sefer shel Beinonim, a book for the ordinary Jew who is not a tzaddik. It said the whole work was founded on one verse: ki karov eilecha hadavar me’od, beficha uvilvavcha la’asoso. It is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to do it. The world came to call the book the Tanya, after its first word. Here the Alter Rebbe looks up past that first title page, and the verse stands beside him one word at a time, red at the top, green at his shoulder, the whole promise on one wall.The original hangs ready. Ask Rachel about it.
  • ArtistRachel Teeger
  • MediumOil on canvas, palette knife
  • Year2026
  • Size71 by 89 cm, 4 cm deep
  • CertificateSigned, included

Original oil, signed by the artist. No editions, no reproductions. Insured delivery worldwide.

Seen in a room

Shabbos table
Shabbos candles
Seforim shelf
Living room
The study
Entry console

Every room is drawn to scale. The canvas is 71 by 89 cm, 4 cm deep.

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