Son of Rabbi Uri Zohar: "Father taught us to see the filth""

2 June 2022   

Outside Rabbi Uri Zohar's home on Zichron Yaakov Street in Jerusalem, family and friends have gathered since news of his death from cardiac arrest at the age of 86 - in preparation for the funeral, which will leave at 4:00 PM from his home to Mount Hamunehot, where he will be buried.

His son, Itamar, spoke to the media with his voice choked with tears. "This man was my whole world. I miss him and I'm broken. I'm crazy about him. He's my life. He was everything I have in spirit. It's only from him. He's a man who laughed in the face of everything that contains matter. He was only interested in one thing. My great love for him, because he filled the world with understanding and spirit. I'm so sad. The fact that in the world you live in, it's hard to understand what I'm saying. Words will only spoil it.

""I am shocked and I am so sad. This is a great loss. The darkness is so great and unbearable. He was my life and I am saddened by his passing. We called him 'the Rabbi,' and it was a humorous nickname. He knew both worlds, and people saw a man who was steeped in one thing - right and truth. People cannot resist something like that and that is why they loved him, both in the Haredi world and in the secular world.".

The son added: "The eulogy for him is that the darkness is so great and unbearable that what has substance is just scum. This man taught us to see us, the scum that you chase after so much.".