I have seen what "tikkun olam" really is. Reform became officially a social action movement in the late 1990s, with Tikkun Olam giving it an excuse to be considered a Jewish sect, as little if any other aspect of Judaism was truly considered important. Tikkun Olam has been at the forefront for the past decades in their synagogues where hate and demonization of Israel was a weekly sermon, and hatred toward religious Jews was the added component. It has destroyed most of US Jewry. The assimilation is near total amongst the younger Reform and or ex-Reform who are totally secular and eating a bagel consists of their total Judaism.After Oct. 7 many turned against the Jewish community, celebrating rather than than mourning, and even good old Stephen Spielberg, supposedly one concerned about the Jewish community became a capo, refusing to condemn the slaughter that took place on that day, nor the rapes, nor the taking of hundreds of hostages including an infant, all to die or be tortured endlessly. Is this Tikkun Olam? Not in my books, but hey, Progressives, being incredible hypocrites and narcissists, surely can explain their thinking, as Marxists always do, no matter how twisted. Worse, we now see how many of Reform youth and young people who were brainwashed by Refrom, turning to self-hatred towards their identity as Jews and have become prominent in the Jew hunts and attacks on campuses wearing their keffiyehs proudly and screaming " Worldwide Intifada" based on this supposed "Tikkun Olam" touted by the Reform movement.
On the money! Extraordinary insight--a truly outstanding essay! Thank you so much for writing it.
Your essay is exactly why I left my reform synagogue. The rabbi had no interest in Judaism. Instead it had become a highly toxic far left so-called social justice movement.
I will admit that “tikkun olam” was my gateway drug into a Judaism that had been transmitted to me only minimally growing up, (second to “Jewishness”) but because there is so much more depth and breadth that invites one into Judaism, I didn’t stop there. Doing so would have been like mistaking a postcard of a beach for a swim in the ocean.
The Jewish history is rich and glorious. If people don’t want to celebrate that, it is very sad.
Be proud and fight, fight, fight
Preach! Exactly!
What a bright, brilliant, outstanding tract !!
Tikkun olam in the mind of the trump hating liberal seems to morph into a form of suicidal empathy from the chronic virtue signalers
I have seen what "tikkun olam" really is. Reform became officially a social action movement in the late 1990s, with Tikkun Olam giving it an excuse to be considered a Jewish sect, as little if any other aspect of Judaism was truly considered important. Tikkun Olam has been at the forefront for the past decades in their synagogues where hate and demonization of Israel was a weekly sermon, and hatred toward religious Jews was the added component. It has destroyed most of US Jewry. The assimilation is near total amongst the younger Reform and or ex-Reform who are totally secular and eating a bagel consists of their total Judaism.After Oct. 7 many turned against the Jewish community, celebrating rather than than mourning, and even good old Stephen Spielberg, supposedly one concerned about the Jewish community became a capo, refusing to condemn the slaughter that took place on that day, nor the rapes, nor the taking of hundreds of hostages including an infant, all to die or be tortured endlessly. Is this Tikkun Olam? Not in my books, but hey, Progressives, being incredible hypocrites and narcissists, surely can explain their thinking, as Marxists always do, no matter how twisted. Worse, we now see how many of Reform youth and young people who were brainwashed by Refrom, turning to self-hatred towards their identity as Jews and have become prominent in the Jew hunts and attacks on campuses wearing their keffiyehs proudly and screaming " Worldwide Intifada" based on this supposed "Tikkun Olam" touted by the Reform movement.
On the money! Extraordinary insight--a truly outstanding essay! Thank you so much for writing it.
Your essay is exactly why I left my reform synagogue. The rabbi had no interest in Judaism. Instead it had become a highly toxic far left so-called social justice movement.
Once again, you nailed it!
I will admit that “tikkun olam” was my gateway drug into a Judaism that had been transmitted to me only minimally growing up, (second to “Jewishness”) but because there is so much more depth and breadth that invites one into Judaism, I didn’t stop there. Doing so would have been like mistaking a postcard of a beach for a swim in the ocean.
Brilliant
Amen.
tikkun olam literally means to heal oneself (self responsibility and accountability is part of that) and this is how the world heals.
It doesn’t mean that literally. It means to fix the world. Maybe you mean figuratively.