[Avodah] Tiqun Olam

[Michael Makovi]

>  > Aleynu uses tikkun olam
>  > Mikha'el Makovi

>  Aleynu does not say "tikun olam"; it says "letaken olam *bemalchut
>  ShDY*".  Those last two words are the ikkar, not the tafel, and those
>  who use the term "tikun olam" definitely do not mean them at all.
>  I have never heard a frum person use the term "tikun olam" or refer
>  to it at all as a Jewish value; AFAIK it is entirely a foreign
>  concept, and even the term is not used anywhere Jewish - the closest
>  we come is the takanot that were made "mipnei tikun ha'olam".

>  Zev Sero

B'vadia "b'malchut ShDY"!! I said that Rav Hirsch was writing a perush
to Aleynu, and therefore, whatever he said perforce applied to tikkun
olam whether or not he himself quoted the explict words "tikkun olam"
(or l'taken olam; oto davar).

Well, according to that same logic, Rav Hirsch accepted "b'malchut
ShDY" whether or not he quoted those actual words. So you cannot
accuse anyone of chopping those words off.

And he mentioned Noachide laws and G-d's sovereignty, so he definitely
mentioned G-d's malchut, albeit in German rather than Hebrew.

So all's that left, question wise, is whether "l'taken olam" = "tikkun
olam". I'd say, l'taken olam, hu la'asot tikkun olam. Oto davar.

Mikha'el Makovi