What is "tikkun"

Tikkun is a quarterly interfaith Jewish left- progressive magazine, published in the United States, that analyzes American and Israeli culture, politics, religion, and history in the English language. The magazine has consistently published the work of Israeli and Palestinian left-wing intellectuals, but also included book and music reviews, personal essays, and poetry. In 2006 and 2011, the magazine was awarded the Independent Press Award for Best Spiritual Coverage by Utne Reader for its analysis of the inability of many progressives to understand people's yearning for faith, and the American fundamentalists' political influence on the international conflict among religious zealots. The magazine was founded in 1986 by Michael Lerner and his then-wife Nan Fink Gefen. Since 2012, its publisher is Duke University Press. Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, led by Rabbi Michael Lerner, is loosely affiliated with Tikkun magazine. It describes itself as a " hallachic community bound by Jewish law".

A tikkun or tiqqun is a book used by Jews to prepare for reading or writing a Torah scroll. There are two types of tikkun, a tikkun kor'im and a tikkun soferim.

Tikkun/Tikun (תיקון) is a Hebrew word meaning "Fixing/Rectification". It has several connotations in Judaism:

Traditional:

• Tikkun (book), a book of Torah scroll text, used when learning to chant Torah portions or for correct-fixed scribal calligraphy
• Tohu and Tikkun: The two stages of Existence described in the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria. The initial Olam-World of Tohu-Chaos collapses, to be replaced by the World of Tikkun-Rectification; Tikkun also describing the esoteric active spiritual work of rectification
• Tikkun refers to the nightly/early morning synagogue readings on the following Jewish holidays: Seventh Day of Passover, Shavuot, Hoshanna Rabbah, and the Seventh of Adar
• Tikkun HaKlali refers to ten psalms (16, 32, 41, 42, 59, 77, 90, 105, 137, and 150) that correspond to ten types of melody, that have the power to heal according to the Chassidic teacher Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
• Tikkun olam, the popular Jewish concept of "mending the world", terminology derived from Isaac Luria, but applied more widely to ethical activism in contemporary society

Contemporary:

• Tikkun (magazine), a bimonthly newsmagazine of politics and culture from a progressive Jewish point of view
• Tiqqun, the French transcription of the Hebrew word, is the title of a radical French philosophical journal
• Tikkun (film) 2015, A Avishai Sivan film dealing with fundamentalist concepts and touchstone evolving reality. .