A tender father-son moment with Hersh appears at the end of Rachel Polin-Goldberg’s new book. Twice every Shabbat morning, Jon would cover Hersh in his Tallit for the Priestly Blessing. Jon provides a glimpse of the thousands of intimate moments he and Hersh shared, cloaked in privacy. 

“When you barely reached my waist” Jon writes to Hersh, “we’d stand silently with our eyes closed, soaking in the prayer, and the moment, together. More recently, you would be half asleep and rest your weary head on my shoulder. Sometimes one of us would make a........

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