A Jewish nurse who treated the Pittsburgh mass shooter wrote an incredible letter about the power of love.

Ari Mahler has a story that very few people can directly relate to but everyone understands on some level.

He was working his job as an RN at Allegheny General Hospital when news about the horrific mass shooting at a local synagogue broke on the news. Shortly after, the shooter Robert Bower was brought into the ER.

According to the Washington Post, at least three of the doctors and nurses who treated Bower and saved his life are Jewish. That fact quickly became an international story of its own. In response, Mahler posted a note to Facebook that has been shared more than 115,000 times.

Mahler goes on to describe what it’s like being a Jewish person in America in 2018, where American Jews account for only 2 percent of the population but are victims of 60 percent of all hate crimes. As many Jewish people know, those aren’t new statistics. They are the fact of living as a Jewish person in American and many places around the world.

However, Mahler also opened up about why he chose to treat Bower, what that experience was like and why he chose to not tell him that he was Jewish while treating him:

For Mahler, his job is one that requires compassion at all times, even love in the literal face of hatred. In some ways we all make choices every day in our lives when faced with hatred, misunderstanding or even violence. We can respond in kind or stay silent. Or, we can respond like Mahler, who finished his letter by saying: