WORDS THAT BREATHE

On Yom Kippur morning, Matt, Alli, and Charlie Seigel took the bimah at Congregation Or Ami to tell their family's story — a childhood taunt on a ballfield, a mother's grief that led her home, and a Jewish star a daughter once took off and chose to put back on.

A Yom Kippur sermon on what a rabbi's toddler granddaughter taught him about presence, honest words, boundaries, and holiness in ordinary moments.

I wrote this the day she buried her mother, trying to hold prayer and grief together as she recited the first Kaddish for her.