Man with Red Beard drawing

Piano keys face

 

the beggining of a drawing.

A Snail World

Two Chassidim Dancing

 

Chassidim at farbrengen

 

A painting of the Rebbe

A painting of the Rebbe

man learning Torah

In G-d We Trust - An Essay About the Ailing Economy

The economy is going haywire fast. What are we supposed to think at a time like this? I believe that we have to go back to basics and see why this problem happened in the first place, the complete loss of faith in the American dollar and economy. I mean, what happened over here? Nobody believed that what they were buying was worth anything valuable. No one could trust that salespeople were selling them anything useful. The whole system became who can outsell the next guy? Who can offer some piece of junk to the customer that he doesn't need, and convince his that he really needs it?

The system had to collapse. But we really have to see this as one step backwards in order to to take two steps forward. We have to be astute and realize that we have to put G-d back into the way we do business. A person has to be able to trust that what he is buying is worth the amount that he is paying and that he is not being ripped off. We have to instill back into our society that the idea of cheating and
stealing is against the laws of G-d Almighty. Only with such an awareness can the economy recover and become strong again.

Moses in the desert

after shabbos photograph

its our fiftieth post!

drawings of sefirot trees

a man wearing a yarmuka - very quick drawing

a drawing of a yeshiva - painted

artist Kovi Raksin
year 2009

drawing of a yeshiva - coming soon the colored version

image in black and white with shadows

media negativity

something must be done about the bad news media conspiracy. when i read the news (almost every day) unfortunately it always depresses me. what do "news" agencies report on? deaths, crashes, war, bad accidents, crimes, all kinds of nasty occurrences. all these things are for some odd reason called news!? why do i have to know about all the nasty horrible murders happening all around the United States? I am much better off not knowing about most of them. By hearing about all these horrible events we get so desensitized and start thinking that such a world is normal, G-d forbid!
Our newspapers have to report about people giving charity not people stealing. About babies being born. About people being healed. About people making peace between each other. About people learning and growing and building a good world. This is real news the garbage that papers report on these days is yesterdays news! gone, our of here, out of sight our of mind. This is a call to all media to start reporting on reality, not insanity.

moshiach now tree

we want moshiach now!!!
we don't have to wait!
artist: david chaim

they are trying to build a prison!

the jails in the USA are overfilled. it's not proper to put a person in jail and not let him do anything with his life while he wastes away for months or years. besides, after the person completes his sentence he does not become a better person because of the prison. on the contrary, it can make him worse. jails should only be for people who are too dangerous to be with others and cannot be put to death for their crimes at the moment for whatever reason.

otherwise penalties should be instituted like paying fines, damages, paying for financial support for the victim if he can no longer make as much money etc.
see link: cost of locking up americans

man with violin 2

artist: david chaim
2009
a man playing violin. this is one is a bit picassoesc with the way the drawing is broken up. playing music is a soul experience, especially music from a violin. didnt have too much time to perfect this drawing but this is what we have of it.

drawing of man and wife

this drawing is very special. some drawings are more psychological than others, i think this is one of them. the relationship between husband and wife is the deepest one that exists in the world. this drawing touches upon that relationship.
david chaim
pen on paper
2009