Anonymous ID: f96ddc Feb. 4, 2019, 6:16 p.m. No.5031871   🗄️.is đź”—kun

The Fallacy, Delusion and Myth of Tikkun Olam

 

It is so very difficult, indeed utterly unbearable, to sit silently by while Jews, and now the general religious and secular communities, completely misuse and distort the term Tikkun Olam– certainly not intentionally or out of any malice, but rather out of ignorance in the pursuit of virtuous goals and principles which may be applicable to general society and civilization but which have tragically become a poor substitute for authentic religious observance.

 

This repair rhetoric has become an obsession, a catch-all credo. Everything today is Tikkun Olam. Enough with the Tikkun Olam. It is a senseless and meaningless misconception, its true meaning nothing like it is commonly used and purported to be.

 

It is not at all a centuries-old tradition, it is not a call to action, and it is not a commandment. And to be clear, Tikkun Olam does not even mean repairing the world in the sense of social justice. Nor in traditional sources is Tikkun Olam in any way even a direct human imperative or action, but rather one that is left in G-d’s hands.

 

We cannot, and are not instructed to, save the world, or even to repair it. Judaism teaches no such thing. Rather, we are instructed to conduct ourselves properly, to observe the Mitzvos, the Commandments (which are not good deeds, but rather commandments, required imperatives), and in that way to contribute to society and civilization both by example and through practice and action.

 

For Jews those Mitzvos include not simply socially or politically correct precepts such as giving charity and engaging in political action, but also observance of the Sabbath, dietary restrictions (Kashrus), daily prayer, and other commandments which seem to have fallen out of favor and are ignored, if not openly denigrated and violated, in some segments of the community, as they substitute the false panacea of something they call Tikkun Olam for the authenticity of true Judaism, clinging desperately to Tikkun Olam to avoid their actual responsibilities as Jews to observe the Torah and the commandments.

 

The term and concept Tikkun Olam appears nowhere in the Torah itself, but first appears only in the Mishna and Talmud in the context of the courts and halakhic (legal) regulations involving disputes and legal rights.

 

https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/06/07/the-fallacy-delusion-and-myth-of-tikkun-olam/

Anonymous ID: f96ddc Feb. 4, 2019, 6:20 p.m. No.5031939   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2403

Left-Wing Researcher Studying Russian Collusion Was Subject To Qatari Hacking

 

One of the targets of a massive Qatari hacking campaign was James Devon Lamond, the managing director of a project investigating Russian collusion at liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP)

The hack reportedly also targeted many others, including Ronald Sandee, co-founder of Blue Water Intelligence and former senior analyst with Dutch Military Intelligence

The revelation underscores a burgeoning relationship between Russia and Qatar

 

A massive Qatari hacking operation has targeted a researcher at a prominent left-leaning American think tank who was part of an investigative research initiative on Russia, newly uncovered documentation shows.

 

James Devon Lamond was leading an initiative at the Center for American Progress (CAP) – as the managing director of the CAP Action Fund’s Moscow Project – to expose Moscow’s alleged collusion with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential elections, when Qatar targeted him for surveillance, documents obtained by The Daily Caller show. The documents, uncovered as part of a discovery process through ongoing litigation from a lawsuit over the extensive hack, detail a list of targets that include Lamond, and serve to underscore a burgeoning relationship between Moscow and the Arab state.

 

CAP did not respond to The Daily Caller’s repeated requests for comment.

 

Lamond is one of the more than 1,400 people reportedly affected by the 2014-2018 Qatari hacking campaign, the second-largest hack ever documented worldwide. Other high-profile targets of the hack in the United States include former Republican National Committee finance chairman Elliott Broidy; Kristin Wood, whose 20-year CIA career included leading the analytic team in the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence; Shmuley Boteach, a celebrity rabbi and confidante of Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson; and Ronald Sandee, co-founder of Blue Water Intelligence and a former senior analyst with Dutch Military Intelligence.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/04/left-wing-researcher-russian-collusion-qatari-hacking/