A Real Survivor

Tsutomu Yamaguchi died last week. He is the only person officially recognized as having survived the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Despite the double radiation exposure, he lived to be 93 years old.

The cabalists make a note of the number 92 because it is the combined sum of the YHVH and the Name Adonoi, the highest and lowest of the Seven Names that are not allowed to be erased according to Jewish Law; when the sum of 92 indicates completion than another digit is added to the sum making it 93.

Yamaguchi pleaded for the abolition of atomic weapons and became a vocal proponent of nuclear disarmament–he did more than survive. America who dropped the two bombs is; now America, the only country to have bombed another country, fears being bombed sixty years later.

The atomic bomb is the biggest sword in Rome’s arsenal and the only way to avert the inevitable is to beat our swords into plow shears as is prophesied in the Torah that in the end Rome, the lion, will lay down with the lamb–the rest of us.

The curious coincidence of a man who survived both bombings and lived to be 93 relates to something intrinsic within each person, a survival instinct not just to survive but to rectify the past.