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Letting Go

138K views · Aug 7, 2016

Rabbi Yoel Gold

A classic story of betrayal, forgiveness, and family.

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[Music] it was visiting day in Camp kvo and 12-year-old yev Brook's parents and grandparents came up to spend the day with her every summer my grandparents would come with my parents to visit us and I look forward to an entire time I was in Camp I was in my bunk house with my mother and my grandmother and my sister and my grandfather and father were walking through the path of camp and as they were walking through the camp they saw another older man walking by them and my father noticed my by them and my father noticed my grandfather nod an acknowledgement to this elderly man my father-in-law who knew all of his father's acquaintances friends everybody in his life said who's that man so he said that was my best friend from before the war said your best friend from before the war introduce me I'd like to meet him said no it's better that that we don't meet and my father pressed him said I really would like to know what what's what's going on here what's the story why did you go over to him and hug him and speak to him see how he's doing and uh my father then went on to tell me why he's not not introducing me to

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