Actress Rotem Zisman Cohen was nominated several times for the prestigious Ophir Award, and after starring in the film “Our Father” alongside her husband Maurice Cohen, she decided to take a break. This time she is returning to the movies as a director. On the occasion of the release of her new documentary, “Between the Walls” about the Border Police Company in the Old City of Jerusalem, she talked about repentance and the external change that followed.
In an interview with Orit Merlin-Rosenzweig in the newspaper “Laisha”, she told about the process of repentance, which has intensified in recent years. “I remember the moment I had, on Passover two and a half years ago, I was cleaning the kitchen and suddenly I heard on the radio the song of Yishai Ribo ‘My heart is torn in two’, and I felt like I was on foot in Tel Aviv, symbolizing my stronghold of secularism and lust, “At that moment I sat down and started crying and thought, what fun Lishi Ribu that he knows who he is.”
The cover in Lasha Photo: Photo by Tal Abodi, courtesy of “Laisha” magazine
The decision to move to full head covering did not come easily, and in an interview she recounts how she did so at first due to a request from her daughter’s kindergarten teacher. “The darkness of Egypt. I felt that the Creator of the world was talking to me that day. It was no stranger to me, I put on a head covering on Saturdays, but now I had an internal conflict: what do I do for Hadassah? How do I educate her? ?
She also recounted the reactions of the talkbackers, who wrote, “‘Okay, a headdress, but why such a headdress?’ ‘Morris?’ A friend brought me Christian Dior handkerchiefs and an original Chanel of grandmothers, old-fashioned things, and also a store in Bnei Brak that sells stunning headgear. ”
In the past, she said in an interview with News 13, “People think that you repent within three minutes. There you have a handkerchief, a bite and the story is over. From about age 6 she asks existential questions about the world, from age 20 I keep Shabbat, it’s a process.