Importance of Tikkun olam

The Hebrew phrase tikkun olam (pronounced tee-KOON oh-LUHM) means "world repair." In modern Jewish circles, tikkun olam has become synonymous with the notion of social action and the pursuit of social justice. Created in the image of God each human being is requested to come close to the Bo're and to be a partaker of a marvellous peaceful world to which each member has to contribute out of free will. In order for the balance between good and evil intended by God to be restored, humans must be involved in the world's reparation and can not keep aside or aloof or 'do nothing' to get social justice or a better world.

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Ki Tisa – Torah Portion

To remember

• Parashat Ki Tisa (when you take), God instructs Moses to take a census + an offering.+ > Sabbath given as perpetual sign = covenant for God’s people
• this Torah reading = summed up in one word: Purpose!
• Tikkun Olam – Restoration To The World

• God has a Purpose for everything He does. => Tikkun Olam = God’s redemptive purpose to restore a fallen world + fallen humanity back to the perfect order that He intended at creation.
• God’s plan for humanity = laid out in His Word like a road map to destiny.
• plan of redemption through Messiah Yeshua.
• God’s redemptive plan begins with Israel + spreads to the nations.
• “take root” in Israel => bear fruit => fill entire world.
• God brings hope to humanity + restoration to nations > repairing one life at a time.
• Tikkun Olam possible when we become God’s instruments of restoration by taking an interest in others.
• Messianic Judaism + Jewish world in general = you will find those who will invest their interest in you.
• friendship + love conquer all racial, ethnic, + cultural barriers.
• God wants to use you to bring tikkun to wounded souls + broken lives.
• bring tikkun olam to others when we walk in our purpose.
• plan = to walk in relationship with God + bring glory + honor to His name.
• take time to invest in someone.
• Tikkun Olam = heart of God for His people.  > instrument of Restoration in lives of those around you!

Parasha With Passion - Weekly Torah Portions

Parasha With Passion – Weekly Torah Reading Cycle – Week #21

Greetings Beloveds,

In Parashat Ki Tisa (when you take), God instructs Moses to take a census and an offering. Also, God instructs Moses on how the basin for washing should be used, how to formulate the anointing oil, and appoint skilled craftsman to construct the tabernacle furnishings.

Also,
in Parashat Ki Tisa, the Sabbath is
given as a perpetual sign as a covenant for God’s people, Moses experiences
God’s glory, and the people make a golden calf. Wow, what a power packed Torah reading! However, I believe that all that the children
of Israel experienced in this Torah reading can be summed up in one word: PURPOSE!

Tikkun Olam – Restoration To The World

God
has a PURPOSE for everything He
does. From the beginning, God had a
purpose when He called Abraham the father of many nations…

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Tikkun or fixing… happiness or misery… the invisible dynamic

Tikkun entails more than putting something right what was wrong. We should look more at it as a word presenting the healing factor or bringing something in a good or healthy state.

In Europe we still speak about correcting or reacting in the good sense to something to repair it. Some may use the word to fix something, but we doubt this word would be used in our regions in the sense of tikkun.

energy healing

Tikkun is a Hebrew word, means correction.

I am yet to hear a Westerner, or an Easterner use the word: correction. The world, nowadays, is into “fixing”. ((In your vocabulary, each word should mean what it actually mean… If you use words that are close, but mean something different, you can see that in your Starting Point Measurements, in the vocabulary measure… your number will be low… signifying that for you everything is the same as everything else, except that not always… a low ability to differentiate between things. You’ll misinterpret what you hear/read, you’ll misunderstand things, follow things poorly, you’ll have a lot of pain and little happiness.))

Fixing is an ugly world, immediately signaling what the speaker sees, that there is something wrong and it urgently needs to be fixed, because it is wrong that it is. Reactive.

But when emotions run high, the cone of vision narrows…

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To Heal the World? | Book Review

To remember

• Tikkun olam = Hebrew for “to heal or to repair the world.” = popular catchphrase among left wing American Jewish rabbis + social activists >  ancient teaching of Judaism =>religious foundation for their politics.
• Jonathan Neumann concludes in To Heal the World that it isn’t = argues  tikkun olam provides a religious covering for a political ideology: “social justice” arrived via non-religious means.
• “Social justice = political philosophy advocating redistribution of income + wealth + other property in order to achieve economic egalitarianism
• social justice includes an agenda of permissive social policies that leave lifestyle questions to the discretion of individual + promotes gender diversity
• attitudes + policies associated predominantly with today’s left-wing political parties
• perceive social justice through prism of intersectionality
• To Heal the World doesn’t offer a comprehensive critique of social-justice policies => deconstructs notion that tikkun-olam-as-social-justice bears any necessary relationship to Judaism = social justice scheme promulgated by the Jewish left “corrupts Judaism + endangers Israel”
• 18th + 19nth centuries, European Jews began to experience increasing freedom from legal restraints + social prejudices that had hitherto been placed on their communities by Christian states. => shed particularistic rituals of traditional Judaism + emphasize Judaism’s universalistic ethics (Kantian)
• postwar America > commitment to universalistic ethics > expressed as tikkun olam.
• Reform Judaism’s relationship to traditional Judaism critical from the beginning > at its inception to distance itself from Judaism as it had been practiced historically.  + universalizing mode rendered Jewish particularism highly problematic, including its longings for Zion.
• In early to mid-twentieth century, Reform Judaism rethought both these points, + sought to root its thinking in Tanakh + to give qualified support to the nascent Jewish state.
• Jewish Left’s use of tikkun olam = problematic. > tikkun olam itself “never meant what American Jews now understand the term to mean.”
• tikkun olam/social justice Judaism problematizes very existence of Jewish identity > moral themes derived from sources other than the Bible.
• Social justice has no need for Jews > involves their very dissolution into rest of humanity.
• Jews ancient heritage something unique to say = particularism for sake of universalism, > precedent deep in Bible + Jewish tradition = through  Abraham’s offspring all nations on earth will be blessed
• leftwing Judaism and tikkun olam parallel with liberal Protestantism + “Social Gospel.”
• Reform Judaism drew part of its inspiration from Social Gospel movement. => question whether relationship between Social Gospel + traditional Christianity is as biblically + theologically problematic as th relationship between tikkun olam + traditional Judaism.

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Preceding

Where our life journey begins and inheritance of offices of parents

Second core value of Conservative Judaism opposite use of native tongue in Reform Judaism

A Secret of our Enemy :Inter-Ethnic Fault Lines Among the Jews

Marranism or the Invisibles

Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European

Advocacy is Fundamental to Reform Judaism

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Tikkun olamis Hebrew for “to heal the world.” It has become a popular catchphrase among leftwing American Jewish rabbis and social activists. According to them, it is an ancient teaching of Judaism, and therefore a religious foundation for their politics.

The only problem is that it isn’t. At least that’s what Jonathan Neumann concludes in To Heal the World. He argues that tikkun olamprovides a religious covering for a political ideology that has been arrived at via nonreligious means. And that political ideology is “social justice.”

Here’s how Neumann defines that political ideology:

“Social justice is a political philosophy that advocates the redistribution of income—and sometimes even wealth and other property—in order to achieve economic egalitarianism…. In more recent decades, social justice has also come to include an agenda of permissive social policies that leave lifestyle questions to the discretion of the individual and promote gender diversity…

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Advocacy is Fundamental to Reform Judaism

To remember

• Social justice = vital factor of Reform Judaism.
• Reform Jew need to hear spoken word pertaining to the prophets => tikkun olam = to make attempt to enhance world for which we all live.
• Reform Jew = God’s partners in taking a stand > voiceless + shattered in our culture
• Reform Jews pushed by extreme amount of concerns > fundamental to Jewish awareness of the prophetic communication of Jewish faith
• Reform Jews proclaim that maintaining a strong safety net for those who are most vulnerable = modern manifestation of our obligation to “leave the corners of our fields for the poor and needy” (Leviticus 19:9).
• family values include supporting
• Reform Judaism stands for certain principles
• Reform Jews take pride in their long history of “speaking truth to power.”
• Active commitment to social justice =  hallmark of Reform Judaism => commitment inspires Reform congregations across North America to pursue a wide range of activities designed to l’taken et ha’olam, to mend the world.
• key tenet of Reform Judaism = openness to the “other” => Social Action Judaism > speak out on behalf of the vulnerable
• Reform Jews make collective effort to bring progressive, values to bear in the community at large.

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Preceding

Where our life journey begins and inheritance of offices of parents

Second core value of Conservative Judaism opposite use of native tongue in Reform Judaism

A Secret of our Enemy :Inter-Ethnic Fault Lines Among the Jews

Marranism or the Invisibles

Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European

The Dantzler Report!

Social justice is a vital factor of Reform Judaism. The Reform Jew need to hear the spoken word pertaining to the prophets within our mind; to become interested in the continual services of tikkun olam; to make an attempt to enhance the world for which we all live. A Reform Jew is one who is God’s partners in taking a stand when it comes to voiceless and taking care of what is shattered in our culture.

Reform Jews are pushed by an extreme amount of concerns, every single one fundamental to Jewish awareness of the prophetic communication of Jewish faith and imperative to producing the kind of environment all people prefer to bequeath to individuals who follow us. Reform Jews are also presented by those who maintain to communicate in the identity of religious beliefs nonetheless who offer a distinctive interpretation of what God desires of for all people and…

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