Tikkun Olam Ted

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Nicole Graev Lipson
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam

Sacrifice in Jewish Tradition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Weddle
Keyword(s):  
Jewish People ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Redemptive Suffering ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Tikkun Olam ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Temple

After Roman destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70CE, Jewish tradition reimagined animal sacrifices as devotional acts, such as prayer, fasting, and study of Torah, as well as giving up individual desires to fulfil God’s will. Rabbis interpreted the story of Abraham’s binding Isaac for sacrifice (the Akedah) as the model of absolute obedience to divine commands (mitzvoth) and as the basis for the election of the Jewish people to bear witness to the one God. Their commentary, however, included the horrified reaction of Sarah’s scream to the news of Abraham’s act, ending in her death, indicating dissent from sacrifice as religious ideal. Rabbinic tradition transferred the site of sacrifice from temple to synagogue in rituals of High Holy Days, to the family table in Passover and Sabbath rituals, and to the individual will in submission to Torah. In the mystical teaching of Kabbalah, God sacrifices to create the world and Jews are called to sacrifice to redeem the world (tikkun olam). Such vocation of redemptive suffering was called into question by the Holocaust, and some contemporary Israeli poets refer to the Akedah in expressing misgivings about calls to sacrifice in defense of Israel.

The Tikkun Olam Generation

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Paul David Kerbel
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam

Tikkun Olam: A Model for Healing the World

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Dene S. Berman ◽  
Jennifer Davis-Berman
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam ◽  
The World

Tikkun Olam Without Coercion: Living into the World We Want to Create

Tikkun ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-48
Author(s):  
M. Kashtan
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam ◽  
The World

On Relinquishing and Receiving: A Christian Approach to Tikkun Olam

Tikkun ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-34
Author(s):  
W. Brueggemann
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam

Tikkun Olam Starts at Home

Tikkun ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
P. Von Blum
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam ◽  
At Home

Turning Tikkun Olam into Action

Tikkun ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-94
Author(s):  
G. VRADENBURG
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam

“Tikkun Olam”: how a Jewish ethos drives innovation

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 938-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Kahane
Keyword(s):  
Tikkun Olam

scholarly journals TIKKUN OLAM AND TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: JEWISH VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Raanan Rein
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
General Population ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
North American ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Tikkun Olam ◽  
The World ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
Very High

The number of Jewish volunteers who joined the International Brigades (IB) in order to defend the Spanish Republic against the Nationalist rebels was very high. Their presence among volunteers from each nation was in most cases greatly disproportionate to their representation in the general population of those countries. Many of these volunteers held internationalist views, and the idea of emphasizing their Jewish identity was alien to them. But in fact—as is reflected, for example, in the letters they sent from the Spanish trenches to their friends and relatives or in their memoirs—they also followed the Jewish mandate of tikkun olam, a Hebrew phrase meaning “repairing the world,” or showing responsibility for healing and transforming it. Many volunteers attempted to block, with their own bodies if need be, the Nazi and Fascist wave sweeping across Europe, thus defending both universal and Jewish causes. While there is a voluminous bibliography on the IB, less attention has been given to Jewish participation in the Spanish Civil War; and most studies of Jewish participation in the war focus on Jewish-European or on Jewish-North American volunteers. There is a conspicuous absence of historiography about Jewish-Argentines, and very little written on Jewish-Palestinians, in the Iberian conflict. This article looks at volunteers from these two countries and their motivation for taking an active part in the Spanish Civil War.

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