Uri Zohar has passed away.  z”l.  

When I first became exposed to Israeli pop culture – in the seventies – I wasn’t very excited about him.  Even though he was incredibly funny, it took me years to see that he was exposing the very decadence he embodied, and it was not an enormous revolution when he turned to religion.  

Most people thought Uri Zohar’s ‘conversion’ was a joke, that he would soon shave off his beard and cut his sidelocks and announce that he fooled us.  But he continued for at least a quarter of his life to study torah every day and practice virtue in earnest.  

blessed be his memory.