“Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.”
—Deuteronomy 16:20 NIV
The Hebrew phrase “tikkun olam” literally means “repair of the world,” and is found in the Mishnah, a work of classical rabbinic teaching that was compiled in the third century. The basic idea behind tikkun olam is that we should improve the world through acts of soci…
