Sentences with phrase «tikkun olam»

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.

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»).

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.»

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

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

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.

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

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.»

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

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).

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

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.