The Revival of the Dead & the Miracle of Return
The full text of Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo’s Afterword to Returning
By Yael Shahar
Rabbi Cardozo speaks of the implications of resurgent memory in our day. Could this be the fulfillment of prophetic vision? He notes that stories of non-lived memory are more common than we think. “Such stories hint at a great secret about the age we are living in now. But not everyone connects the dots in the same way.” Rabbi Cardozo shows how the themes of national rebirth, teshuvah (return/atonement), and the revival of the dead are woven together by prophecy and aggadah (dreamlike stories woven out of biblical themes).