At Skokie Jewish center, this mural by the ‘Pop Art Rabbi’ aims to convey the essence of a ‘mitzvah’

This mural by the “Pop Art Rabbi” is at the Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie in the 4000 block of Dempster Street. (Robert Herguth / Sun-Times)

On Dempster Street near Crawford Avenue in Skokie, a Jewish organization’s building is decorated with a mural showing pages from an open book exploding into fiery colors and Hebrew letters flying around.

Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, who’s known as the “Pop Art Rabbi,” was the lead artist behind the mural, painted in 2020 on an outside wall at Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie.