Dennis Fischman’s Reviews > There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition > Status Update

“(1) the Aleinu’s concept of tikkun as the destruction of any impurities that impede the full manifestation of the divine presence; (2) the literalist midrashic understanding of tikkun Olam as the establishment of a sustainable social order; (3) the rabbinic willingness to invoke tikkun ha’olam as a justification for changing laws likely to create chaos, and (4) the Lurianic belief that individual actions…