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  • #1264992
    Lightbrite
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    Has anyone ever recognized someone in a painting of religious Jews?

    There is a print of a painting in one of my Jewish calendars with a person who looks so much like someone I know IRL.

    Can anyone relate? It’s very nice to find familiar faces in someone else’s art.

    I held myself back from taking a pic of it to send to the person. I think that would be weird in context. It obviously is not the person.

    Oh! There was a boy on a Israeli food product years ago that looks just like one of my relatives when he was a boy. So interesting! We kept the container for many years because of it.

    Thank you 🙂

    #1264998
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Years ago, there was a mass Tefillah at the Kosel for something – I no longer remember what. My mother couldn’t go, so she watched it on a machine (I don’t want to say the “t” word) and she saw me davening at the Kosel.

    #1265045
    Lightbrite
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    Omgosh that is so exciting!!! 😄💟🔯🔯🔯

    Was it really you?

    #1265052
    WinnieThePooh
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    There was an artist I knew and I recognized her relatives in some of her works. She had one of an old man blessing 2 young boys (reminiscent of Yaakov and Menashe//Efraim) and they looked like her sons and their Zeidy.

    #1265371
    Lightbrite
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    Winnie the Pooh: Aww that’s so sweet!

    You know what? I just realized that the beautiful paintings of Jews in the Jewish art that I am looking at likely look like a real person that the artist knew or had as a model.

    That’s really cool how someone I have never met can have such an anonymous and artistic presence in my home 💜

    Thank you for the food for thought! 🙂

    #1265405
    WinnieThePooh
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    You’re welcome.

    #1265421
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Yeah, it really was me. My mother said that the camera guy focused on me for several minutes.

    I knew nothing about it until I got home.

    #1265480
    Lightbrite
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    Wow!!! Aww I can’t think of a more exciting moment to be caught on camera 🙂

    #1265490
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    🙂

    #1265513
    Lightbrite
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    😙

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