Walk a path of healing (Tikkun Adam) to heal the world (Tikkun Olam) ❦ #38
Biblical Mussar Course
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1h 1m
Mussar gives you words for things. Some of those words are Hebrew because we don't have big enough English words. For example, "tikkun": the inner work of Mussar. In our last conversation I showed you how Tikkun is used in the original Hebrew Bible. Now let's look at what it means in Rabbinic literature and modern Hebrew. Most of this conversation will be about tikkun as healing - restoring, repairing, rehabilitating, mending - and how to experience that for yourself. Why? Because only people walking their own paths of healing (Tikkun Adam) will be able to heal the world (Tikkun Olam).
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