Brake listened to their pleas. His family, though, didn’t want him speaking out. They wanted him to leave the past alone. Brake wasn’t one to call attention to himself, anyway, he said. “I’m a secretive person,” he explained. But he’d needed to tell someone. And now that he’d told the rabbi, he felt a weight lift off him. After almost two hours, it was time for Brake to get home to his wife. He thanked the rabbi and Hecht for listening, picked up his cane with the tiny Star of David, and slowly shuffled out the door. And with his departure, Rabbi Sudak stopped wondering why he had he been
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