Tikkoun olam

The Tikkoun olam (héb.: RTL He תיקוןעולם, litt. “repair of the world”) is an important concept in the Judaïsme, recovering mainly, and inter alia, the Jewish design of the Social justice.

According to certain explanations, larger is the number of mitzvot (religious regulations) realized, more the world approaches the Perfection. Of this rather general idea, accepted by all, including the Jewish karaïtes, Jewish mysticism developed the idea that the tikkoun olam would start or would achieve prophecies concerning the come from the Messiah or those of the world to come. The belief in the tikkoun olam is one of the central concepts of the Zohar (the Livre of Splendor ), and more still of the lourianic school of the Kabbale.

The Tikkoun olam occupies an eminent place, so much in the Jewish Liturgie, as in the Alenou ( lètakken olam bèmalkhout Shaddaï , “to repair the world in the Kingdom of the Almighty. ”) that in the Mishna, where the phrase mip' nei tikkoun olam (“because of the tikkoun olam”) is used to indicate that a practice is not followed so much because it through law but because it makes it possible to avoid negative social consequences.

In the Cabal

The lourianic cabal sign that the creation even of the universe by God was unstable, and that “primitive” universe, represented by a vase in pottery, could not contain the holy light of the Ein Sof ( Infini - God) and flew in glares (that is noticed in particular in the differences between the two accounts of the Genesis). It, in this design, literally is thus nowadays broken and requiring to be repaired, which is carried out while following the Halakha (Jewish religious law). This is why, according to the kabbalists, with each realization of a regulation ( Mitzvah ), a Jew carries out an act of tikkoun olam , gradually making return the universe to the form originally wanted by God, and making play humanity his part of “partner” in divine creation.

In the currents progressists of the Judaism

In the Judaism '' conservative '', reformed and reconstructionist, the tikkoun olam took a connotation as well religious as political, in that which it implies that the Juif S must work and promote social justice. The magazine Tikkoun , published by the Rabbi Michael Lerner, reflects this vision of the world.

References

Tikkoun olam in the Cabal

Aryeh Kaplan. Inner Space: Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy Moznaim Publishing Corp. 1990.
Gershom Scholem, the Cabal, Jewish Publication Society

Internal bonds

the found Words (V.O: Bee season) , a novel then a film in which the concept of tikkoun olam is central.
Cabal

External bonds

My jewish learning ''Tikkun Olam''

TIKKUN : progressive Jewish community

From which comes violence? an article of the Rabbi Michael Lerner

Category: Jewish concept

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