Avraham Borshevsky

Avraham Borshevsky was born in 1970 in Korosten, USSR, later studied art and architecture in Leningrad and immigrated to Israel in 1990. He trained in Jerusalem as a certified sofer and became known for conceptual Hebrew calligraphy and record-setting mezuzah works. Israeli master scribe and Hebrew calligrapher, born in 1970 in Korosten in the former Soviet Union and based in Jerusalem. In Jewish World Records, Avraham Borshevsky is connected to the record “Most Expensive Mezuzah Sold in a Private Sale,” based on the stored achievement of US$51,361. Jerusalem-based Hebrew scribe and calligraphy artist Avraham Borshevsky achieved a private-sale price of US$51,361 for a mezuzah in 2009. Guinness notes that the price was chosen to equal the gematria sum of the Hebrew letters on the parchment.