Three Toronto siblings, ages 14, 16, and 19, spent ten hours creating a breathtaking image of the Rebbe using 1,540 Rubik’s cubes. The finished masterpiece stands nearly 4½ feet tall, 3½ feet wide, weighs almost 130 pounds, and captures remarkable detail using only the colors of the cubes.

Toronto siblings Yocheved (16) and Levi (14) Ross had a handful of scrambled Rubik’s Cubes that they didn’t know how to solve. They asked relatives and family friends and when no one could help them they decided they would have to learn themselves. After going through the steps as they watched videos, they got the hang of it. Working on getting quicker at solving the cube, they bought more so that they could race against each other. Finally, they were able to solve the cubes in under a minute.

One night while playing, they tried to make a simple picture  – a smiley face – out of 8 Rubik’s cubes by solving the cubes to specific patterns rather than to solid sides. They then experimented with writing their names and other words out of the cubes before trying a double-sided mosaic of a dreidel, where one side had a nun and the other had a hei.

An aunt bought them a box of 100 mini cubes to use for mosaics, and from there they started larger and more elaborate projects. Sometimes they would use an image generator to transform a photo into a pixelated grid and other times, they drew the image onto graph paper. They would work on copying the pattern, each from their own copy, until they joined their sections together. Eventually, they bought more cubes and invested in clear acrylic frames so that they could rent out mosaics for events. They created mosaics for a bris, an upsherin, a bar mitzvah, a wedding, a sheva brachos. They made mosaics for class projects, a N’shei farbrengen, a Chabad House Purim party, and a school logo to display at parent-teacher meetings.

They started making mosaics about 2 1/2 years ago, and now have a YouTube channel and a website.

This Rebbe picture is their first permanent display, mounted on plywood and affixed to the wall in their grandparents’ house. With the help of their 19 year old sister, it took the three of them around 10 hours over a day and a half to create this 1,540 cube masterpiece.

Currently, they have two frame sizes available to rent, and can make custom sizes for purchase.

Living in Toronto, Canada, and visiting relatives in New York often enough, they could customize mosaics in either city.

www.judaicsmosaics.com

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