The Truth About Tikkun Olam

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is David Wolpe with that question and answer series. We're in a short period of time we try to answer reader questions. What is tikkun olam? Why are secular and reform Jews so enthused about the concept? And what does it mean for us? Well, you understand that if you are a secular reform Jew, you got a problem because most reform Jews, well certainly most reform rabbis, don't believe in a personal God. There might be a force in history. Yeah, most I mean it's a reform doctrine that the Torah was not given by God. It's written up by a bunch of men. And therefore it does not have any particular significance. There I've heard reform rabbis speak who maintain that many things in the Torah are immoral. Yeah, and racist. That's one of the proofs that God didn't write it because God would never say that, you know. So once you don't have religion, what's left? So, morality. Morality. What we call secular humanism, and I don't know what's wrong with secular humanism already, especially if you don't believe in God. What's the point of being Jewish? And this has been the reason for uh secular and reform Jews to slowly assimilate and disappear because if you want just to have morality, so be a secular humanist. What's the point of being a Jew for if I don't believe in the Torah and I don't believe in God and I don't believe in it. So what's left? Gefilte fish? Yeah, bagels and lox?

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Wolpe with that question and answer series. We're in a short period…
2. 0:30Torah was not given by God. It's written up by a bunch of men. And therefore…
3. 1:02Morality. What we call secular humanism, and I don't know what's wrong with secular humanism already,…
4. 1:34You know, it doesn't make any sense. What are you what are you sticking around for?…
5. 2:04So, they come up with tikkun olam that the purpose is to fix the world. And…
6. 2:36Why? To teach people that God created the world as a chesed, and he spent an…
7. 3:08perfect harmony, right? That's our job. Our job is not there to build hospitals and to…
8. 3:40all the people of the world, and then God will be one. As Rashi says, Shema…
9. 4:11Uh this is David Wolpe with our question and answer series.…

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