“Mordy, thank you. Thank you for your courage in sharing a chapter of your life that most people would try to bury forever”
There are articles that inform. Others that entertain. And then there are articles that pierce — cutting through the fog of daily distraction and landing directly on the heart. Mordy Berkowitz’s raw and painfully honest piece, “Some Mistakes Can’t Be Undone,” is one of those rare pieces of writing that cannot — and must not — be forgotten.
Mordy, thank you. Thank you for your courage in sharing a chapter of your life that most people would try to bury forever. Thank you for giving voice to the searing pain of one irreversible moment — and not only your pain, but that of your parents, family, and friends who are now serving a sentence of their own, living every day with a grief and shame they never deserved. And thank you most of all for using your story as a warning — not to stir pity, but to prevent tragedy.
Reading your article, one thing comes through loud and clear: The pain is still alive. It hasn’t dulled with time. And your willingness to relive that agony in public, for the sake of others, is the very definition of responsible teshuvah. You are doing what you can to ensure that no one else follows your path. And that is no small act.
Let me say this without hesitation: If even one single incident is prevented because someone read your article — if one teenager takes a step back, or one friend intervenes — then your writing has already saved a life.
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