While completing the 36 paintings of a series in process that is based on the
well-known photo of the Jewish boy from the Warsaw Ghetto, I reflected on the countless
millions of children that perish in man's senseless conflicts, wars and genocides -- past and present.
What an unacceptable abuse of the innocents, of the just ones!
Then it occurred to me that there is an ancient Midrash that speaks of 36 just men,
(in Hebrew lamed-vav tsadikim.)
Suddenly it dawned on me that lamed vav in that language also means:
"teach about the six (millions. . .)!"
Samuel Bak, April 2008
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Samuel Bak
Bluebirdland
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20"
BK1163
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Samuel Bak
Against the Wall
Oil on Canvas
11 x 14"
BK1164 |
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Samuel Bak
Alive
Oil on Canvas
11 x 14"
BK1165 |
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Samuel Bak
Ancient Memory
Oil on Canvas
40 x 30"
BK1166 |
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Samuel Bak
Apprenticeship
Oil on Canvas
18 x 18"
BK1167 |
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Samuel Bak
Burning
Oil on Canvas
24 x 18"
BK1168 |
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Samuel Bak
Carrying a Cross
Oil on Canvas
18 x 14"
BK1169 |
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Samuel Bak
Collective
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24"
BK1170 |
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Samuel Bak
Crossed Out II
Oil on Canvas
18 x 14"
BK1171 |
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Samuel Bak
Cumulative Data
Oil on Canvas
24 x 30"
BK1172 |
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Samuel Bak
De Profundis
Oil on Canvas
12 x 16
BK1173 |
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Samuel Bak
Display
Oil on Canvas
12 x 16"
BK1174 |
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Samuel Bak
Exposure
Oil on Canvas
24 x 18"
BK1175 |
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Samuel Bak
Figuring Out
Oil on Canvas
30 x 40"
BK1176 |
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Samuel Bak
For the Many Davids
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24"
BK1177 |
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Samuel Bak
From Ashes
Oil on Canvas
14 x 11"
BK1178 |
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Samuel Bak
Hide and Dream
Oil on Canvas
16 x 13"
BK1179 |
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Samuel Bak
High Wind
Oil on Canvas
16 x 12""
BK1180 |
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Samuel Bak
Holding a Promise
Oil on Canvas
36 x 24"
BK1181 |
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Samuel Bak
Identification
Oil on Canvas
111 x 14"
BK1182 |
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Samuel Bak
In Memoriam
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36"
BK1183 |
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Samuel Bak
In Their Own Image
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24"
BK1184 |
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Samuel Bak
One Child Island
Oil on Canvas
24 x 18"
BK1185 |
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Samuel Bak
On No Ground
Oil on Canvas
18 x 18"
BK1186 |
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Samuel Bak
Passing
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24"
BK1187 |
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Samuel Bak
One Two Three
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20"
BK1188 |
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Samuel Bak
Ruakh
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24"
BK1189 |
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Samuel Bak
Signal of Identity
Oil on Canvas
40 x 30"
BK1190 |
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Samuel Bak
Six Wings for One
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24"
BK1191 |
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Samuel Bak
Targeted
Oil on Canvas
40 x 30"
BK1192 |
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Samuel Bak
The Cup Was Full
Oil on Canvas
24 x 18"
BK1193 |
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Samuel Bak
Under Some Trees
Oil on Canvas
11 x 14"
BK1194 |
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Samuel Bak
Unknown
Oil on Canvas
24 x 18"
BK1195 |
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Samuel Bak
Walled In
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24"
BK1196 |
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Samuel Bak
With a Blue Thread
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24"
BK1197
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Samuel Bak
With the Fabric of Stars
Oil on Canvas
16 x 12"
BK1198 |
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Samuel Bak
Procession
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24"
BK1199 |
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