Tribute Reb Hendel - First Chasidic Artist

lieberman the first hasidic artist the older brother of the mental foot of us he changed his name uh to lieberman because that's the way he was able to get out of russia he passed away on tina's esther 1976 tomorrow tonight tomorrow's his yard site so a few words about the special hussaid in lubavitch we know him as the conductor in the late 60s and early 70s till till he became ill and passed on he would go sit stand behind the river on a bench during the good name and make with his hands like he's conducting a symphony and this was so special because when you walked into a fabregan you normally focused on the river but here the focus was also on reb handle during the during the circus you know during the talks pendle was born in 1900 he was born to the he had a brother mendel's younger and two sisters golda who ended up marrying ben siertev and bracha who married salman cerebransky but handel was in his own league why a because he was the only one who actually learned in in in lubavitch as a young 11 12 year old boy there was a a kita that they brought from nachos kharkov they brought a whole group of boys to lebowicz and he was one of them also he was older he was born 1900 so he saw older sedum even you know old red mendel was born in 1907 he was seven years older than a mentalist brother but his real uniqueness was is in his colorfulness and he became a hasidis artist the first hasidic artist now what does that mean that means that the issues that he encountered during his life were challenging being able to you know do art and at the same time be a froome jew a hasidis jew it was challenging and he had his challenges then came the holocaust and it killed his his his wife and children and he was devastated in the 1940s i believe in the early 40s he wasn't in a good place it was difficult for him his family and him bestowed love upon him just like we talk about the love that's necessary today for children and people who you know aren't following exactly the way we want them to be hasidis and froome and all that well it depends on his challenges during those days and i saw with my own eyes how my schwein my father rebecca said spoke about him and my wife told me how when he came when appendo came to australia how her father took care of him like his own father the love was palpable the love was was was so so beautiful there was really sedums and mishpochah togetherness and that's what pulled him through that's how he got through those difficult times because no one gave up hope for him about him and no one said he's an outcast and he's cussing and he's a pain an artist and he went to the i think the moscow school of art and etc like what's going on here you come from such a family i heard a good vote that their their mother mariyasha badana i believe said this he said she said this to mendel to the medal for [Applause] you know the difference between you and handel is dying taivor is struggling to drain and to slept and to fetch the cladder your type is to look kind of slobbish you know not put together you don't care where you sleep how you sleep what happens to your clothing under this type and handles taiwan is so happy depressed pressed pants to look sharp but it's the same type uh this is what she told him it's a govaldi convert you know who are we to discern about typhus there's a tyver of an avid there's a typhoon of a mosquito everyone has a title one likes to learn the mother one likes little rambam one likes the lyrics see this one likes to dabble one likes to do his kafka one likes he said if it's a type it's a typhoon within the realm of goodness you're not hurting anyone but but if from your perspective this is what she was telling him is mendel you think he's so special not to be into your clothing that's your tithe his time is to be in this clothing anyway he pulled through he came with the sedum to samakant and then to paris and he got back on the bandwagon and came to america very early in the 50s 1851 or so and he stayed with his cousin mendel deich that mendel dyche was a cousin of his now mental dyches as the years went on my shred told me the story a beautiful story i think was 1958 59 and he was in the house over there and he saw how they were fighting cats and dogs two cousins who loved each other what happened the mental dich was against listening to the radio he says what's wrong what kind of businesses listening to the radio to the radio and whatever and those years spoke against hollywood kitchens and those things and handle was a happy-go-lucky fellow anyone that knew handle was happy-go-lucky i remember handel walking down kingston avenue armed arm and arm with gets a little bashkin getzelin handle that's why many of his pieces of art you'll see a rooster and a cat the cat represents the the ghetto the quetzal the cots the cat and handel is the hung is the rooster and that because they were so together so so loved each other anyway so handle was a luck a happy-go-lucky fellow and he listened to the radio to either should whatever whatever was on wvdi i don't know whatever but trust me he wasn't listening to rock and roll and glacier music and and and mental diets couldn't tolerate it and one day he he he ruined his radio because at that point it was time for handel to move out this story told me that he remembers seeing how they were going to each other and this was during his time when he came to new york rapunzel had a lot of kirov kiruvum from the rebel the rebbe wrote to him letters rabbit gave him highest for 25 years from 1950 till 1976 25 years pretty much 51-76 that ever kept him alive he had stomach issues and illnesses and trust me between losing his wife and children and his health he could have deteriorated much quicker hashem that ever wrote him letters and then they made you know made to him freyla and it ever spoke to him and it gave him highest it gave him life what did you leave us well i know students of his people who learned from him who are from some balichuva some others with families hasidic art you know if a person has a talent an art they want to pursue it there's a venue for it in taida and in and when you look at repentance drawings and paintings and you study them for example one of them has the samavar the two people you know the samavar uh some of our was in russia the large uh iron cast you know um tea where you had water for hot tea and it's some it's in one of those pictures or maybe several those pictures and what are the two i see them doing they're learning some above so that pendulum who's the artist when i went to moscow arts the school of art and everything else he recalls those memories so in his art you get a glimpse of of the way siding were in lubavitch and then russia this is left with us this we have my father-in-law told me that the to to you know he enjoyed cooking you know for the first i don't think cooked you know what i'm saying handel enjoyed cooking he made meals he invited uh he invited people to come eat with him this wasn't because he couldn't he didn't have relatives to go to i'm talking about later in the probably in the 70s i'm not saying was every shabbos but you know he he had a had an enjoyment from doing this he had a he was he had what they call in in the literature world simcha a joy of life real life you know making a joke cracking the joke seeing that see the shenanigan crying some of his pictures are very very tearful very you know kind of the pain he was real they should help us us doing learning a a possible avert giving some tsudaka or shame handle who was named after by the way his uncle uh who passed away before he was born handel passed away in 1899 are you test davis or you know and he was born 1900. so he was named after hannah handel coogle the two brothers of kogul and handle from plashnitz that defeated cabba talks about and who was appointed mashpee and labavich and the freedom calls herzl he calls him full of heart just to look at him the bakram had they cited us an awakening to hashem and arousal lieberman was a name after him so let us do something in his house and they should help will come we'll have an be apocalypse put him and will only have simchas