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Albert Mammon Davening At The Kotel

Here was Albert Mammon introducing us to his last surviving parent in a way that was so personal, raw and real that we, too, fell in love with the father to whom we had come to bid farewell. This young man’s meticulous performance of yet another mitzvah at a time of anguish and loss, with chesed shel emet (true kindness that can never be repaid), hit home hard, broke every heart, shook every soul – as he fulfilled the Fifth Commandment:  Honor Thy Father…

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Beth Sarafraz is a writer living in Brooklyn.