Fingerprints

While Doni was alive, he touched so many people. The stories he left behind are like fingerprints on our lives.

Three years later, on June 1, 2016, my daughter Sahra gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He was named Moshe Nechemia. Maybe this little baby had a piece of Doni’s soul tucked inside him. He definitely had a lot of hopes, dreams, and tefillos accompanying his birth.

Just a few weeks after he was born, Moshe had tiny little shudders. Since it was different from anything she’d seen with her other babies, Sahra checked with a friend who was also a nurse, and felt reassured when her friend said, “That’s what babies do, it’s fine.”

But it wasn’t.

The shudders became stronger and more frequent and Sahra grew more concerned. Finally, she and her husband took baby Moshe to the emergency room where he managed to shudder in front of a doctor. Seizures, not shudders. They just look different in a six-week-old.