Tikkun Olam, Part 2

This week, Elliott continues his series of 3 episodes looking at the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam - the repairing of the world.You can read the Jewish sources Elliott talks about here. You can read Avi Shafran's piece in the Jerusalem Post here, and Thomas Friedman's Op-Ed in the New York Times here. Next week: Elliott finishes the series by considering the idea of tikkun olam we find in Lurianic Kabbalah, and finally reflects on what ideas from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries we might want to keep.If you have any comments or questions, please be in touch with us at [email protected] – we would love to hear from you. You can also join the conversation on our Facebook page, and we're also on Bluesky, so please head over there to give us a follow as well.If there are people in your life who you think would be interested, please tell them about All Else Is Commentary.Please visit our website: https://www.alyth.org.uk/learn-us/adult-learning/all-else-is-commentary/All Else Is Commentary is brought to you by Alyth.We are incredibly grateful to be supported by the Shoresh Charitable Trust. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.