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“Mr. Lawrence Stein requested a Jewish priest to perform last rites. When can you get here?”

Rav Shlomo Zalman Kaufman taught me what caring and chesed really mean

I want to stay with him, comfort him, and mend his wounds. He is so pained, so lonely, and so frightened

Each time the possible reconciliatory opportunity arose, he seemed to telepath me the emphatic message: Stay away from me!

He was about to hear the words which would change his life forever

“I had reasons and never intended to hurt you”