Sentences with word «tikkun»

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.

Presumably for my benefit, she graciously translated the term into the language of the Jewish vision of tikkun olam.

While educated in the Christian tradition, Maathai draws inspiration from many faiths, celebrating the Jewish mandate tikkun olam («repair the world» and renewing the Japanese term mottainai («don't waste»).

Such friendship with each other may in fact be our best hope for tikkun olam — the healing of the world.

There's emphasis on tikkun olam, healing the world, and on our partnership with God in bringing about the day when the work of perfecting creation is complete.)

One significant strategy is framing the act of volunteering as a Jewish act, according to Repair the World, whose name is based on the Hebrew phrase tikkun olam, or repairing the world, a concept in Judaism referring to social action and community service.

Based on the principle of tikkun olamâ $» Hebrew for «repairing the world.»

I reached out to a friend who is a huge political activist, and she asked if I'd ever heard of tikkun olam.

He is no doubt right that, in authoritative Jewish tradition, tikkun olam refers to the right ordering of the Jewish community, and not, as the very leftward magazine called Tikkun would have it, to a generalized command to «build a better world.»

Both he and the organization have a strong belief in fostering a sense of community rooted in inclusion, equality, and diversity - and have a deep desire to help «repair the world» (or in Hebrew, tikkun olam).

«There is a very important Jewish value — called «tikkun olam» in Hebrew, which means «repairing the world,»» he said.

Christians are to be partners in what has become the watchword of the modernist Jewish religious project: tikkun olam» «repairing the world.»

More important, I thought, tikkun olam certainly did not convey the same vision as cura personalis.

There is a Hebrew concept called «tikkun olam «that has caught my imagination over the past few years.

Through this liberation the power of darkness is overcome and tikkun, the restoration of the original harmony, is effected.

This system calls the north node your tikkun («correction») and views it as the karmic adjustment your soul must make.

The question is: was the young man's improbable survival a violation of God's will, or was it «tikkun,» a way toward enlightenment and redemption?

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).

Our clinical work prepares people to be active shapers of their personal lives and also, if they choose, to join with others — in the Hebrew phrase, tikkun olam — to repair the world.