[Avodah] Tikkun Olam

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:52:44PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: I do not disagree. But I do consider it noteworthy that in the
: unusual cases, where "the system" supposedly does *not* "work as it was
: designed to", it is most frequently (not always, but most frequently)
: "the downtrodden" who would lose out if the system doesn't get improved.

Not always? Bar Ilan and I found only one exception, and I would argue
that a taqanah to aid someone who lost an aveidah, while only in the
gray area when speaking of aiding the "downtrodden", is still about
social justice.

I was convinced last iteration that RnCL is correct. Which I took to
mean: Liberal Judaisms' "Tikkun Olam" is not an abuse of the term by
referring to social justice, although they could be when speaking of
ecology. But they do go awry when not using a Judaism-based definition of
"justice" in how to define what needs repairing.

-Micha

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