Tikkun Olam

Tikkun Olam: In Jewish teachings, any activity that improves the world, bringing it closer to the harmonious state for which it was created.

Simple language is always best. Tikkun means "fixing up."

From the soon-to-be-released book “Wisdom to Fix the Earth”

What’s needed is an ideology that explains why raising a Jewish family is just as crucial to tikkun olam as your contribution to society at large.

Tikkun Olam means healing, improving and perfecting the world. The notion has hit a wave of controversy lately. So here’s a few major points to clear up.

By the seventh generation of Chabad, the walls separating the Jew from the rest of the world had all come tumbling down.

The very core of reality is G-d’s shattered dream, waiting for us to pick up the pieces.

The feminine side of G-d, and the struggle for reunion.

Where the real world happens, from there is its tikun. The salesperson, the school teacher, the business executive, the manufacturer…

There is a desire that lies at the very core of all being. That desire chose you.

The best way to understand investment is by looking at the archetype of all investment. And that is life.

The little child jumping rope outside, the construction worker drilling steel girders, the ocean’s roar and the big blue sky will all speak of the oneness that breathes within all of them, without the need to sit and ponder. It will be the foreground experience. Because that is what they all truly are.

At the outset of Creation, He removed all light. And that is the source of all that ever goes wrong.

We dwell within a living work of art, perhaps a symphony, or perhaps a dance, of uncountable parts. If we look with open eyes, we will discover the signature of an unknowable Creator within the knowable patterns of nature.

“And just how,” I asked Dave, “would you render your characters unpredictable? Whatever random functions you write, at the end of the day, you have control.”

Modernity is precarious. Our soul believes life has purpose and meaning, while our brains consider our bodies to be no more than walking water bottles of biochemical reactions.

If you don’t know why you’re here, sometimes all you can see is dirt. But once you know your mission, all you see is diamonds.

Think of yourself. As far as you are concerned, if you are gone, everything is gone. And the same applies for every other person on this planet.

What’s my role in life? Is it to “slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet,” or is it to help my own family and community?

Tikun olam – perfecting the world – is a catch phrase in some Jewish circles. How does Torah interpret it?

Before, it was impossible to imagine a world. Now it is impossible to imagine anything but world.