Such friendship with each other may in fact be our best hope
for tikkun olam — the healing of the world.
Not exact matches
But even the most orthodox of Jews will admit that GeHenna (named after the dump outside Jerusalem that existed in the Valley of Hinnom and whilch was considered the most unclean of places, where the «fires never went out» and the «worm never died»... a reference seen in Isaiah...) was an idea adapted from Babylonian theology (taken from Zoasterism), not an idea originally developed in the Tanach (thus you will find references to «the world to come» and «
tikkun Olam» only in the Talmud, not in the Tanach... which
for Jews is not a problem since our view of «scripture» is not the same as a Christians).
The problem
for me was that the idea of
tikkun olam has become so hackneyed an idea, filled with the eisegetical meaning from well - intentioned political activists, that it has become meaningless.
We envision our Campus
for Compassionate Living in Israel as a living embodiment of the Jewish values of empathy, responsibility, and
tikkun olam (repairing the world), and of the mandate not to cause tsa'ar ba'alei hayim (the suffering of animals).