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Tikkun was started with the intention of challenging the left for its inability to understand the centrality of religious and spiritual concerns in the lives of ordinary Americans.
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Tikkun was formed to educate the public about the findings of the Institute and to develop some of the implications of that work.
However, because it also had an interest in being an " alternative to the voices of Jewish conservatism ," Tikkun was criticized by some Jewish groups.
Lerner's call for a spiritual transformation of American society was first articulated in Tikkun and then in his book The Politics of Meaning.
The booklet was subsequently converted into a kosher scroll by sofer Marc Michaels for reading in the community and then into a tikkun — copyist guide for scribes —' Tikkun megillat hashoah '.
" Tikkun Magazine was first published in the fall of 1986.
In 2005, the Tikkun Community was reorganized and renamed the Network of Spiritual Progressives ( see below ).
Born in Poland, Halpern was introduced to the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov when he came across a copy of Tikkun HaKlali ( Rebbe Nachman's " General Remedy ," a specific formulation of ten Psalms ).
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Shavuot customs include all-night study marathons known as Tikkun Leil Shavuot, eating dairy foods ( cheesecake and blintzes are special favorites ), reading the Book of Ruth, decorating homes and synagogues with greenery, and wearing white clothing, symbolizing purity.
* The Jewish Approach to Repairing the World ( Tikkun Olam ): A Brief Introduction for Christians ( with Cory Willson )( Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008 ).
Tikkun olam () is a Hebrew phrase that means " repairing the world " ( or " healing and restoring the world ") which suggests humanity's shared responsibility ( with the Creator ) " to heal, repair and transform the world.
There they saw a Hasid, Odesser, reciting the Tikkun Chatzot (" Midnight Lament ") with intense fervor.
Tikkun introduced itself in 1986 with prominent ads placed in leading intellectual papers and journals declaring a new voice for the Jewish Left, obliquely challenging Commentary Magazine's conservative drift and the perception that the American Jewish community had grown overwhelmingly conservative.
* The Kestenbaum Edition Tikkun: The Torah Reader's Compendium ( ISBN 1-57819-313-3 ) – Complete tikkun with pointed Hebrew, unpointed Hebrew, plus English translation and commentary.
The exhibition concludes with how contemporary Jewry has embraced the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam ( Repairing the World ) and fighting for justice for everyone.
Rather, it is concerned with the process of individual Tikkun ( Rectification ) of the soul.
* Solomon ibn Gabirol's Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh ( printed together with the first-mentioned translation at Constantinople in 1550 ).
Tikkun and for
Judaism has always considered " Tikkun Olam " ( or Repairing the world ) as a fundamental reason for God's creating the world.
In Judaism, the Tikkun HaKlali, also known as " The General Remedy ," is a set of ten Psalms designed in 1805 by Rebbe Nachman whose recital is intended to serve as repentance for nocturnal emissions.
After serving for five years as dean of the graduate school of psychology at the New College of California ( now defunct ) in San Francisco, Lerner and his then-wife Nan Fink created a general-interest intellectual magazine called Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society.
Luria offered a daring cosmic theology that explained the reasons for the Tzimtzum, the primordial catastrophe of Shevirat Hakelim ( the " Breaking of the Vessels " of the Sefirot in the first existence ), and the messianic Tikkun (" Fixing ") of this by every individual through their sanctification of physicality.
" Whoever comes to my gravesite and recites the Ten Psalms of the Tikkun HaKlali (" General Remedy "), and gives even as little as a penny to charity for my sake, then, no matter how serious his sins may be, I will do everything in my power — spanning the length and breadth of Creation — to cleanse and protect him.
Another prominent feature of Rebbe Nachman's teachings is his Tikkun HaKlali (" General Rectification " or " General Remedy ") for spiritual correction.
* Tikkun HaKlali (" General Remedy ")— Rebbe Nachman's order of ten Psalms to be recited for various problems, plus commentary by Reb Noson.
* Tikkun Olam volunteer program for college graduates
* Tikkun ( book ), a book of Torah scroll text, used when learning to chant Torah portions or for correct-fixed scribal calligraphy
* Tikkun ( book ) ( used to prepare for the reading of Sefer Torah in synagogue )
Tikkun and Jewish Voice for Peace were not invited to co-sponsor the conference.
With Rabbi Phyllis Berman he has co-authored " Tales of Tikkun: New Jewish Stories to Heal the Wounded World "; " A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: The Jewish Life-Spiral as a Spiritual Journey "; and " Freedom Journeys: Tales of Exodus and Wilderness Across Millenia.
* Tikkun HaKlali ( General Remedy )— Rebbe Nachman's order of ten Psalms to be recited for various problems, plus commentary by Reb Noson.
Through his creative articulation of Hasidic mysticism, his teachings can awaken a desire for deveikut, the path of personal hitbodedut expression of one's problems, and a mystical Tikkun HaKlali rectification for all.
After his bar mitzvah, he entered his family's yeshiva, where the students rose at midnight for Tikkun Chatzot and then studied Kabbalistic works until dawn, when they would go to the mikveh, pray the morning service, and eat breakfast.
He is a contributing editor and writer for Sojourners magazine and a contributor to Tikkun magazine and the Huffington Post.
Tikkun and its
Later in 2002, Lerner organized a group called the Tikkun Community among readers of Tikkun magazine and those who share its editorial vision.
Over the first few years, Tikkun held conferences in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles to capture the energy of its readers and address pressing issues of the day.
Throughout its history Tikkun has tried to engage readers in broader activism through numerous distinct organizational entities.
In 2001 Tikkun announced the founding of an interfaith activist arm, the Tikkun Community, in the Sept / Oct issue of its magazine, and held its founding conference in January 2002.
Tikkun and spiritual
This type of process need not be detrimental to the high moral regard in which the Holocaust victims are seen, as the Jewish view of reincarnation is essentially about Tikkun, rather than punishment, and their martyrdom raises them to a high spiritual level.
Lerner's synagogue Beyt Tikkun became an embodiment of what he described as " neo-Hasidism ," passionately pursuing the spiritual dimension of the prayers rather than rushing through them.
Lerner is the spiritual leader of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley and a member of the Board of Rabbis of Northern California.
The initial Olam-World of Tohu-Chaos collapses, to be replaced by the World of Tikkun-Rectification ; Tikkun also describing the esoteric active spiritual work of rectification
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Gayness and God, Tikkun magazine, 1993.
We can only accomplish " Tikkun Olam " by our unconditional acceptance of each other's peaceful doctrines.
This concept is somewhat akin to the concept of Tikkun olam.
26 ( 1990 ) 214 – 249 ; Morris: 1948 and After ; Teveth: Commentary ; Morris and Shlaim: Tikkun.
Dan Juster of Tikkun, and Russ Resnik of the UMJC, have argued against the One Law movement's insistence on Gentiles being required to observe the entirety of Torah in the same way as Jews.
In seeking to encourage the study of Musar literature, Salanter had three works of Musar literature republished in Vilna: Mesillat Yesharim by Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh by Solomon ibn Gabirol, and Chesbon Ha-Nefesh by Menachem Mendel Lefin.
The Lurianic scheme of cosmic Tikkun, involves the separation and elevation of " Sparks of Holiness " by man, that are trapped in, and give life to, mundane or negative phenomena.
Sabbatai Zevi " enthroned " as the Jewish Messiah, from Tikkun, Amsterdam, 1666.
Rabbi Nachman saw his own role as an innovation in Hasidism, and his teachings, directives ( such as the Tikkun HaKlali ) and unique imaginative wonder-stories, set Rabbi Nachman apart from virtually all other Hasidic leaders.
Michael Lerner ( born 1943 ) is a political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley.
" Sabbatai Zevi enthroned ", from Tikkun, Amsterdam, 1666.
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