Moynihan, Biblical Reanimation

This week's New Yorker has a nice article on Moynihan

reminded me of the days when we hung together,

"My dear talmid- chaver Jon Gross asked, "In this week's haftarah: was it purely a miracle when Elisha revived the kid or did he use some kind of CPR?" Sjimon Rene' Hollander answered, "When I was studying to be a nurse, I heard that there is actually a term (at least in Dutch) called "Biblical Reanimation", and it refers to what Elisha did with the boy."

A colleague of mine spoke over Shabbos about closeness and distance and the difference it can make. He suggested part of what led to the boy's being revived is the closeness that his mother exhibited toward him. This affection is clear from Melachim 2:4, where it says that he sat on her lap until he died (for the first time).