After his demobilization, he worked at irrigating the kibbutz plantations, his life following a regular pattern: after working all day in the fields, he would rest for a couple of hours, then work at his painting until late at night. Sometimes he would go on till two or three a.m., then get up before six o'clock to run after the truck that transported the workers out to the fields.

Besides painting, he loved literature and philosophy. He studied the Bible and the Agadah, read Plato and Tolstoy, Bialik, and all of Agnon's works. His copies of Yesteryear and A Guest for the Night were black with oil stains, because during his army service he used to read them while resting in the shade of the tank... He lived in a wooden shack, to which he later added his workshop. This he arranged tastefully, making it into a kind of shrine, adorned with reproductions of great works of art and his own paintings and drawings, as well as with bowls of the fruits in season, flowers, Sabbath candlesticks and musical instruments, which he sometimes depicted in his paintings. Books, too, of course, from Kafka's The Trial to Hillel Zeitlin's Garden of Hassidim and Kabbala.