Rabbi Uri Zohar eulogized Einstein: "You were a good man"

"You did well to everyone because you were a good man," Rabbi Uri Zohar eulogized today (Wednesday), Arik Einstein who passed away.

"You went around all of us," said Rabbi Zohar, "You are in the world of truth. See how the people of Israel are crying over you. You lived in a world of good you could not understand the bad. You did well to all the people of Israel because you were a good man, your sould was seen from within your songs. I say goodbye to you, but we will not leave you. Privilege goes before you, all the good you have done. God wanted you to be close to him."

The late singer Arik Einstein, who died yesterday at the age of 74, was considered one of the prominent Israeli Bohemia and a hero of its culture. Einstein perhaps is the Israel - secular soundtrack, as defined by the prime minister, but his personal life has been linked to the Haredi public.

His wife Alona and two daughters h Stblht"a became Baalei Teshiva. Einstein's wife broke up with him after her repentance, since he didn’t follow in her footsteps. Acquaintances indicate that she was a righteous woman, with extreme kindness, dedicated her life for others and for Judaism.

Einstein was a good friend of Rabbi Uri Zohar and they worked together for many years.

Saba Uri and Saba Arik

Collaboration between him and Rabbi Zohar, stopped in the 70s, when the latter repented and retired from the entertainment world.

Someone said at the time of Rabbi Zohar: "The secular public has lost a great director and the ultra-Orthodox public, received an average Rabbi".

Whereas Einstein stopped his public appearances a few years later and rarely appeared in public, following a car accident.

Later on they met again; when Einstein's daughters married the sons of Rabbi Zohar. It was the kind of communication between two courtyards which reached the Israeli culture and there was nothing there.

Interestingly, the two girls repented following their mother, and their husbands, sons of Uri Zohar repented following their father. From the two weddings Einstein had over ten grandchildren, and three years ago, at the wedding of their common granddaughter Saba Arik sat together with Saba Uri.

Although Einstein was not religious, he had a warm attitude to religion, mainly due to the fact that he had orthodox grandchildren.

During the wedding of his granddaughter, it's been told, someone took advantage of the high spirits and asked him whether the fact that he has orthodox grandchildren, does not cause him some difficulty, as a secular grandfather? Einstein's answer was surprising: "I do not know the difficulty; I just know that when I look at my grandchildren, I see 'light'." "He knew to look for the real thing and not considerate of the environment." Acquaintances say.

On another occasion, when his youngest grandson came to visit him, the child innocently asked: "Grandpa, why do you not have a beard like Saba Uri?" Arik smiled and said, "Saba Uri has a long beard, enough for both of us."

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