tikkun olam

This prayer calls on us to discover where the brokenness of the world overlaps with our particular human gifts.

Lovingkindness--the act of caring for others--is a fundamental of Judaism.

In contemporary Jewish thought.

In contemporary parlance, tikkun olam refers to repairing the earthly world in which we live but in Luria's teachings, complete tikkun would undo the world we know.

This phrase with kabbalistic roots has come to connote social justice.