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Podcast: Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson
Episode: 75: Does Tikkun Olam Mean What You Think?
Description: Zohar Atkins discusses the real meaning of tikkun olam. Susannah and Zohar discuss the contemporary progressive vision of this idea, which means (or does it?) âto repair the world.â Where did that contemporary interpretation come from? And what was the original meaning?They go through the Rabbinic concept of Tikkun as equity, as a kind of emergency legal decree to be used when the law as written would lead to socially destructive outcomes. They discuss the mystery of how this legal concept became the contemporary vision of Tikkun olam as, essentially, a progressive vision of social justice.Zohar...