Murray Bloom had two loves: electronics and jazz.  As a patriarch of heart health innovation, he designed, manufactured and distributed cardiac stimulating and recording devices.  His designs helped usher in the modern era of cardiac arrhythmia evaluation.  As a result of his work, tens of thousands of lives were saved or prolonged.  A jazz writer, arranger, player and producer, he loved music all his life.  In 2009, this warm, witty human being was stricken with a virulent cancer.  With his life ebbing away, he found comfort in long discussions of music and Judaism with Cantor Marshall Portnoy, including the vision of funding a foundation to further the development of Jewish music.  Just prior to his death, he fulfilled the lifelong dream of celebrating the Bar Mitzvah he had never had.  A few weeks later, in September of 2011, Murray passed away peacefully in his home, his family by his side.