He saved lives & ultimately gave his life.
Earlier this week we awoke to horrendous news of 20 plus soldiers having died overnight in Gaza, defending our people, our land — essentially, our very existence.
One of the fallen heroes was Adam Bismut, an engineer who amongst other achievements had invented a camera that helps lifeguards save lives.
Once, while walking at the Dead Sea he heard the screams of someone drowning unnoticed by the lifeguard. He realized, the lifeguard’s eyes are limited in what they can detect and how vast an area they can scan. He set out to change this by inventing a camera using AI that could scan and detect people in distress alerting the lifeguard and ultimately saving the person drowning.
Saving lives was a motivator to him. Transforming the world to be less harsh. To be nurturing & life preserving. The Jewish ethos. But more than the Jewish ethos — it’s the actual cosmic intention of the creation of the world.
Human beings as the bridge between making this world a place of Divine light — a good place. Or G-d forbid, the opposite. It’s a choice. It’s a mission. It’s called purpose.
Nothing is too small neither too large. We each have our own unique ability to effect our environment and make it better, warmer and illuminating.
Adam was motivated to do good. He saved lives. He saves lives. He will continue to save lives and sadly but incredibly he dedicated his very life to preserve the life of Am Yisrael.
The ways of G-d are not for mortals to understand — we simply don’t have the capacity to comprehend the infinite. We do however have the ability to reach for the infinite, each of us in our own domain reaching higher and higher.
The lives of those who have fallen must continue to inspire us to reach to greater heights. To fuel us in our quest of making this world a better place, a G-dly and goodly place!!
With best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom