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CommentsDear Yaacov, Meeting you in Israel was a meaningful experience. Your paintings and silkscreens can open the minds of all who allow it. And your photographs record history in a most profound way. Welcome to ARTcnet. I am looking forward to seeing you again on our Israel Art Tours. Best regards, Phyllis Zemble
Commentsyaakov mazal tov nice to see your work on the web best of luck yoram
CommentsDear Yaacov, My name is David Meyerson, and I bought two photographs from you this past summer. They are absolutely wonderful. I think of Tsfat everytime I look at them over my bed. Remember I told you I had already bought prints from you a few years before? Well, if you don't, don't worry about it. However, much of you art hangs around our house, and we think of Israel each time we see them. Hope to see you once again in the future. David Meyerson Meyer91@yahoo.com Please E-mail me
CommentsDear Yaakov Kaszemacher, I manage a large frame shop and gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. I am also a dealer in Jewish Art. Unfortunately, one of your photgraphs was ruined in the mounting process in my shop and I must replace it for my client. The photograph is a beautiful image of the burial sites of the "Ari" and other kabbalists in Sfat at dusk. It measures 18.75 x 19.5 and is mounted on canvas. He bought this image from you in your shop in Sfat and said that you had other prints of this piece. This may be my only hope of making direct contact with you.Can you help me? Hopefully, I could replace this piece and order other pieces from your collection as well. Kol Tov and Todah Rabah! Sincerely, Paysi Golomb The Chessler Company 4211 Primrose Road Baltimore, Maryland 21215 Fax 410-764-7451 Phone 410-358-5161 E-mail paysiart@aol.com
CommentsHi Yaacov, I just found your web site. Some fifteen odd years ago I purchased your original magendavid painting. It has hung over my desk since that time and still gives me pleasure every day. Do you ever plan to exhibit in London? Best. Mike Sinclair.
CommentsYanki! send me a line at anqx@mindspring.com.I'm living in Borough Park now with my wife and daughter.Meir Reich is my next door neighbor.I am doing computer programming.I may be able to put you in touch with somebody on the west coast who can push your work there. Your web page is beautiful!Eagerly awaiting to hear from you Adam Quittner
CommentsDear Reb Yaacov, Your photograph of Admorei Zants is breathtaking. Even in black and white it seems alive. The moment is captured beautifully. Yasher Koichacha. -Chanan Baer, Baltimore,Maryland
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CommentsDear Jacob: I have been to Israel two times. Both times we visited your shop and brought back lovely memories. Thank you for the joy you have brought into our home. Anita, Claude and Daniel Young
CommentsI do a little photography and loved your photographs. The humanity jumps off the page at me. I wanted to see more. Lovely. Thank you. Rose Vitola Tokyo
CommentsI do a little photography and loved your photographs. The humanity jumps off the page at me. I wanted to see more. Lovely. Thank you. Rose Vitola Tokyo
CommentsYaacov- I hope that all is well with you. I am writing because we met 5? years ago at Meron on Lag B'Omer. I was working as a free-lance journalist and was writing a story about the hillula of Bar-Yohai. A few weeks later, I came to your gallery and you showed me some of your photographs and gave me a few slides. Now, one of the editors to whom I gave a copy of the article I wrote has finally expressed an interest in having it published, and I would like to speak with you about using some of your photographs. Please contact me as soon as possible. thanks Leland Malkus leland1@bu.edu
CommentsI have kept your business card since my visit to your studio in 1993, when i was 19 years old, so that I could buy a piece some day. Very few days went by since then without some sort of thought about your paintings . . . they are colorful, beautiful and inspiring. I look forward to my next trip to your studio. Spencer Young NYC
CommentsYaacov- I was hoping to hear from you about photographs for the article about Lag B'Omer. Please be in touch as sson as possible. Lee Malkus leland1@bu.edu
CommentsBeautiful work! I especially love the photographs. Sincerely, Lauren Amsterdam Michigan, USA
CommentsYour work of the man worshipping G-d for His great creativity and beauty in nature is spiritually uplifting. Thank you.
CommentsBonjour, Ici ton cousin, le fils de Regine. Nous sommes en Israel depuis 4 mois a Jerusalem et tous se passe bien. Marielle (ma femme) prend des cours d'hebreux et moi je travaille dans une societe de High Tech (NDS). Je ne sais pas quand est ce que l'on pourra venir a Sfat, mais si tu passes a Jerusalem appel moi que l'on puisse se voir. Mon numero de portable est : 055 66 4582. Ton site est bien par contre je pense que la numerisation des photos pourrait etre meilleure. A bientot Samuel
CommentsDear Mr. Kaszemacher, I am so happy to have finally found you. A friend of mine, Mr. Alan Walls has one of your silkscreens and I have been wanting to purchase it. It is a blue and white silkscreen with a life symbol in the middle. Please let me know how I may purchase this incredible piece of art. Sincerely, Nancy Jenkins 12401 Deoudes Road Boyds, MARYLAND 20841 301/353-1550 301/528-6446
CommentsHas anyone hear heard from the artist? Anyone have an email address for him? Thanks!
CommentsShalom Yaacov! I hope you are very very well. Your "Avraaaam!" at the Kotel still blows me away. Shalom u'Vracha. Avraham Rosenblum avraham18@msn.com
CommentsShalom, Can you tell me how to get in touch with you directly, either by way of an email address and/or phone number. Todah, Larry Fine
CommentsShalom, I forgot to supply my own email address where you can reach me: zohar01@mediaone.net I look forward to hearing from you. Todah, Larry Fine
CommentsI loved the photos.
CommentsHello Yaacov, you most likely do not remember me- i fell upon your shop in Safed quite randomly, a young individual by the name of David. i expressed my love for your work after perusing your shop, and explained to you how i, too, am a big user of photoshop and a maker of digital artwork. you gave me your e-mail address, and of course, i lost it... 8 months later, i discover that you have a web presence! cool! i bought a beautiful print of yours- i'm not sure if "Zefat" is the title or just an alternate spelling of Safed, but it is a photograph that looks painted of a wall covered in blue paint with the hebrew letters spelling out "Chaim" in the middle. i am writing a short analyzation piece of it for my english class. my interpretation is a comparison to the Sefer Yetzirah, where it is written, "Twenty two foundation letter, He engraved them, He carved them, He permuted them, He weighed them, He transformed them, And with them, He depicted all that was formed and all that would be formed." Through this quote i am able to see the photograph as a gematriatic mantra for meditation. Through Chaim, i can experience life... the letters are "carved" into the universe as they are carved into the painted wall. meditating further, i can get a tiny glimpse of life in the future world, Olam Haba. thank you for the huge amount of inspiration this one piece has brought me! i will see you next time i visit Eretz- hopefully soon!!!
CommentsShalom, Your photography is superb. The content is so unusual and somehow manages to fuse mortality and mysticism. It has reminded me of my own divinity and I thank you for that. At the same time I find your life's tale so encouraging. To move from a completely secular lifestyle to a hassidic way of life must be dizzying. I, too, was raised in a secular home and had no idea I was Jewish. My mother, for reasons unknown, left her Orthodox parents and siblings behind and it was not until a few years ago that I finally met my grandmother and the cat was let out of the back. I was sixteen at the time. The adjustment is difficult at best. I live in a part of Texas lacking a Jewish population. I contacted a Rabbi or two for assistance but was rejected so now I teach myself (my mother's family lives in North Carolina). The strangest thing is that before I ever knew anything about my heritage I felt drawn to Jewish people and their culture, their faith. I even dreamed about them several times. Oh, well. If you can do it, so can I. Desa Westerman jewnamedtori@go.com
CommentsShalom. My name is Lauren Malach and I live in Canada. I was visiting Zefat some time in the year 2000 and I bought a card of one of your paintings. It is called "Eternal Nest." My best friend is getting married at the end of the summer and I would love to give her this print as a gift. Please e-mail me and let me know the cost of a print as well as the shipping and handling costs. Toda Raba, Lauren, laurenmalach@hotmail.com
CommentsWe have framed and are enjoying both your geometric piece and your double exposure photograph of an arch in Tsfat. We were in your studio with our friends the Davidsons. Everyone who has seen your work has enjoyed it as well. Evelyn Koch
CommentsDear Mr. Kaszemacher, You sent me two of your prints of "life". I wrote you after I visited a healer, who was helping me with the grief of my Son's accidental death. Your portrait served as the portal to unite me with my Son's spirit. Shortly after that experience, I set out to purchase this portrait and was blessed to find this website and your print! I ordered two, one for my home and one for my office. Although I have not had the same experience, I do experience calm and serenity when I view it. My co-workers are attracted to it and I have them sit and experience it's tranquility. I hope to be able to purchase the original of this print in the near future, if it is available. Do you have an original of this piece? Thank you for the priceless gift your work has given me. I pray that you will be safe to continue to raise the consciousness of this planet through your talent. God Bless you and keep you, Nancy Jenkins 12401 Deoudes Road Boyds, MD 20841
CommentsDear Yaakov I enjoy your photographic art very much. Please let me know if you have a larger portfolio of offerings available for purchase. Baruch HaShem! Randall Kirkland randyk@brick.net
CommentsDear Yaacov Kaszemacher, I am the blessed possessor of one of your original oil paintings, purchased perhaps 16 years ago in the Ora gallery directly from you. It is the Magen David in depicted in planes of color on a blue ground, and it is my mandala. It hangs on a wall where I see it waking up and going to sleep. It is definately psychedelic, and it becomes a ball moving like the earth when I am very still and focus on it. Thank you for this evocative shiviti. It has helped to develop me spiritually. My best wishes to you and hope your are well. In Love, Light & Shalom, Delane Lipka
CommentsWe purchased a color version of the Meditation in the Forest, Timeless World picture about two years ago. The is picture combines a scene of a beach and of a snowy forest. Do you have any similiar photos for purcase?
CommentsWe purchased a color version of the Meditation in the Forest, Timeless World picture about two years ago. The is picture combines a scene of a beach and of a snowy forest. Do you have any similiar photos for purchase? ahoffnung@yahoo.com
Commentsdearest yaacov my name is pinchos stern.we met in tsefad in 1984 and you proceeded to tell me about the significance of the number 9 the gematria of emes and how you manifested that in your art,specifically in your multiple mogen dovid at that time.i was thrilled to run across your website and become reacquainted with you.of course you did not look like this back then but i never forgot our encounter and have often recounted our meeting to many of my friends.Baruch HASHEM all is well with me and i hope for you as well.may HASHEM's benevolence shine on K'lal Yisroel and peace to this world.wonderful to see you.with wonderful memories pinchos email faystern@njslaw.com
CommentsYaacov this is Don from 1967-1969, the 7th St. apt. Can we talk!? My email is donrod2k@yahoo.com. I would like to send a letter, if you can give an address. What a joyful surprise to see your face. I'm living in Brooklyn, working as a computer artist. Let me hear from you!
CommentsShalom Yaacov: My name is Jeff Davis along with my wife we own the only Judaica Store in RI. We came upon your photos and are very interested in reselling them. Do you offer wholesale prices.. and sign copies are they numbered? Your work in beautiful and really captures the feelings and life of your subjects. Please let us know. Thank You Jeff and Cindy Davis Rhoda's Judaica 775 Hope St Providence, RI 02906 4014544775 f: 4014544692 email: jcemsd@aol.com
CommentsDear Mr. Kaszemacher My husband I were in Israel in 1995 and I bought some wonderful note cards at Yosef Caro in Tsfat that had your paintings on them. I used all of them except one, the Eternal Nest, which I kept for myself as a keepsake. The spirtual leader of our philsophy school took a recent trip to Israel and I wanted to give him a notecard, but have difficulty in giving it up. I decided to see if you had a website whereby I could order more cards and give them to him, so he could see your work and understand their meaning. We were so thrilled with finding your work. Our email address is: Suzy1990 @aol.com All the best, Suzy and Marty Schwartz
CommentsI was zochar to be in Safed last summer with my family(3 girls and my wife).We purchased two photos to ad to our first purchased a few years back.We thoroughly enjoy your work.You are an artists artist!!!Please let us know when you plan to be in the New York area.Maybe we can help with our local Chabad (they sponsored our trip)set up a show for you.If you ever do any work with the Lubuvithcher Rebbe I would love to see it.Best wishes-Kol Tov!!!
CommentsI forgot to give my info-Steven (Chaim) Hoffman Phone#516 239 1125 email:shoff26017@aol.com
CommentsShalom Yaacov! I am so excited to have found your website! In one week it will be a year since I was at your gallery in Safed. Since it was shabbat I only had a few hours to spend in Safed and you encourage me to explore and then come back. I can't put into words how much I love the pictures I purchased. Your work is not only beautiful to look at but it touches my heart and spirit. I also want to thank you for the wonderful conversation. I wish we could of had more time to talk. You explained the meaning of my pictures and the relation to life, the torah, a little about your background and how you came to live in Safed. Two questions: Do you ever make any trips to the U.S.? Are your pictures sold at galleries in the Chicago or Phoenix area? Shalom, Mindy
CommentsYour site is quite informative. It helped me. Caviar Man
CommentsSomething is happening...its in the air...I know not quite what but your photography is quite inspiring when inspiration is needed. And as for Rabbi Akiva....something is happening, I know not quite what, except that my daughter is about to get married and our jewish identity is at its deepest and at its highest. Thank you...I have just bought your photograph of lag b'omer. Sandy Wick
CommentsOH WHAT A LOVELY WEB KEEP IT UP ITS VERY COOL
CommentsReb Yaacov, you are the greatest photographer of Jewish religious life in the world, today or any day! Without parallel! I recently proposed to Arutz Sheva that they should include your works in their online catalog. I hope you hear from them soon. (If you don't remember my name, I am a Breslover and fellow 60s Refugee who you met through the Bostoner Rebbe in America about 4 years ago. I visited you in Tzefat the next summer, and was equally enthusiatic about your photos and artwork then, too. I look forwarded to visiting again soon, and hope to speak with you in person again.) Dovid Sears Brooklyn, NY
CommentsReb Yaacov, you are the greatest photographer of Jewish religious life in the world -- without parallel! Best wishes Dovid and Shira Sears Brooklyn, NY
CommentsDear Yaacov, Hope you are well and successful. Your work is very wondenful and inspiring and I use it in my healing and meditation. I would like to promote Temples as the logo for Ohr HaBinah Jewish healing. The founder of Ohr HaBinah has taught several hundred practitioners, and I am one of the only teachers. He has agreed that I can promote Temples on official Ohr HaBinah literature of mine. I am sure it will generate business for you from both practitioners and clients. I will run courses through my Amutah for terror victims. Because much of my work is still non-profit, with 9 children we do not have the easiest parnasa. We hope to be eligible for grant funding within the next year, but now it is from my pocket. We paid $100 for our Amutah logo. Your work is priceless and I don't want to insult you as a friend or professionally. Yet, at this time, it would be hard for me to offer you much more than $100 for the use of Temples as a logo for Ohr HaBinah because it is from my own pocket expenses. I could immediately send you a $100 Amutah check. If that is possible, please arrange to send me a computer image that a printer can print with high resolution on a flyer. I am sure this will bring both of us blesing and business--and I always tell people to buy your work in my teaching. Now, if it is our healing logo--I will direct anyone who learns healing or meditation from us to buy your work as a standard tool to use. That means it will be profitable for you to print larger prints of Temples again and sell them for more money. I pray this will find Chen in your eyes and that it will also help you financially. I will soon have to make a final decision on a flyer brochure and Ohr HaBinah logo so I await your answer. It is a unique opportunity because I am not the founder but only one of the top people in the growing Ohr HaBinah community. Because I am so close to the founder and he respects me, he allows me to choose a logo which will probably become the standard for everyone involved. One major school is already offering the course to many Talmidim each year. It is expanding. I do hope to join with you again on this Holy project that should generate positive attention and profits for you. Good Shabbos! Immanuel Yosef Legomsky 02-999-7174 054-311-711
CommentsDear Yaacov kaszemacher, I was in Zfat several years ago and purchased a print that was a white geometrical mandala on a blue background. It has been lost in my recent move and I miss it greatly. Was this one of your prints? Thank you, Elaine Katz Los Angeles.
CommentsDear Yaacov - 9 years ago when my twins were infants we visited your gallery and purchased an original painting. It has hung in my home ever since and I remember Safed always. I will be returning to Safed this next monday and look forward to bringing one of the now 9 year old twins to your shop again - Andrea Hirschfeld
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CommentsReb Yaacov, I love your Meditation in the Forest photograph, anyway I can get it in an oil? Dovid Solomon david.z.solomon@juno.com
CommentsYaacov, My name is Avi and I lived in Sefad about 10 years ago. I use to go to minyan with you every day at Kosov with Gedalia Gerfein and Avram Lesser and I would sometimes chop the wood for the fire place early in the morning. I was there at the time when Dan the surfer went to prison. I am trying to get in touch with a rabbi that I was very close to that use to daven at Kosov as well. For some reason I can't remember his name, which is crazy because I spent everyday day and shabbos with him and his family. He does not live in the old city. He lived down the hill in the town right below sefad. He was about 5'5 brown/redish hair and beard with a slight accent (very slight). I wish I had more info I can give you about him but I just can't remember much If you know who I am talking about can please let him know I am looking to get in touch with him. My contact info is avi@auditionfinder.com or (201)692-1647. Any help would be appreciated. I hope you and your Family is doing well.
CommentsShalom Yaacov We are in the process of producing a 26 part religious series for our local broadcaster.We will be coming to Israel to film, and as part of my research on Tsfat, I came across your website. I was struck with admiration at your beautiful work and the spritual elements contained - they certainly are very uplifting and inspirational. We will be coming to Israel to film and I would really love to interview you!! Could you please send me details of how I would be able to contact you and speak to you regarding our programme. best wishes Heather Blumenthal. Please email me on heather@diprod.co.za
CommentsDear Yaacov, in the end of March, 2004, I visited Safed and took picture of you standing on your porch. I really liked it and tryed to send it to you, but could not find your email. I put it on my web site www.yurilev.com. Hope you don't mind. You cam find it here: http://www.yurilev.com/newsite3/index.php?gallery=./07.%20Israel/State%20of%20Israel&image=Safed-Colleague%20%284_0332%29.jpg. I have B&W version that I like more. If you wish, I will be glad to send it to you. Best regards, Yuri Lev.
CommentsOh, by the way: I REALLY like your works! Yuri Lev
CommentsDear Yaacov Kaszemacher - I have one of your prints. It is many hues of blue and has 17 - 18pointed stars around a white middle. We bought it is Safad in 1991 when my family visited your beautiful, spiritual city. You talked with my family - son and husband for a long time. What is the symbolism of this star? Could you help to enlighten me. For some reason it gives me peace and I feel the order of it. Thank You - Maggie Kaiser maggiek@aol.com
Commentsthought you might be interested in a site called theKnish.com and the curious use made of a photograph which I think is yours.
CommentsReb Yaacov, I am trying to find your digital photography online, but can't. Other than flying to Israel, how can I see and buy your photography? Warmly, Kalman kpackouz@hotmail.com
CommentsI love this page. It looks really nice. Keep it up ASaba Owerri homeboy@yahoo.com
CommentsDear Yaacov, We are truly enjoying the photographs we purchased in 1999 and on our recent trip last May 2004. The gifts we purchased for friends were also well received. I would like to purchase a copy of the smaller size of "Meditation in the Forest" or as you aptly described "Snow in Zfat" on canvas in the $40-$60 range without frame or mounting. I would like to give it as a gift to a friend for her birthday next month since she has admired it many times. Please let me know how to go about doing so. Thank you. P.S. After purchasing the photograph of the burial sites, my cousin brought us there that afternoon and my husband had the wonderful experience of the mikvah. Our memory of our day in Zfat is rekindled when we look at your photograph that graces our front entry to our home. Pamela Simon 20 Tumblebrook Lane West Hartford, CT 06117 USA ksimon38@comcast.net
CommentsDear Yaakov, I misplaced your email address, I want to talk with youabout the Rebbe of Lelov photo on Purim... please email me at zcreich@aol.com thank you and chag Smaeach Zev
CommentsMGBADA JOE ABA NAIJA, I LOVE THIS PAGE. PLEASE, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
CommentsDear Mr. Kaszemacher, Your works are just beautifull and inspiring!! Hashem should give you koach to continue with your works. I'm a young lady off 19,and very interested in art. Currently, I am doing childrens books illustrations. I finished two years off art academie in Belgium, where I learned how to use photoshop and illustrator. Unfortunately this is not a Jewish place. In a couple off weeks I would be visiting Eretz Yisrael, and I would like to meet you in person. Maybe you would consider giving me some art lessons. Please let me know something as soon as possible. Thank you, Rachel. Email:SIGEM@SKYNET.BE
CommentsMr. Kaszemacher, This Monday I will be coming to Israel. As I'm a young art student, I'm very interested in spending a few days in Tsefat, "the city of the artist" off course I want to visit your gallery and. And perhaps even meet you in person. Therefore I need the exact addresses, and how to get to you from Bnei Brak. Your email address would be off some use too. Can't wait to hear from you. R.W. my email address is: qualitygraphics@skynet.be
CommentsDrishat Shalom LeCulam Be TZaft (* Nataviushelegleriodejaneiro*) sergio.epe@ig.com.br Sergio (Shlamo) Epelbaum
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