Tikkun
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Tikkun/Tikun/Tiqqun (תיקון) is a Hebrew word meaning "amending/fixing". It has several connotations in Judaism:
Traditional
[edit]- Tikkun (book), a book of Torah scroll text
- Tohu and Tikkun, the two stages of Existence described in the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria
- Tikkun refers to the nightly/early morning synagogue readings on certain Jewish holidays, for example, Hoshana Rabbah
- Tikkun HaKlali, ten psalms that correspond to ten types of melody
- Tikkun olam, the popular Jewish concept of "mending the world"
- Tikkun leil Shavuot refers to the all-night Torah study on the first night of Shavuot, Shavuot#All-night Torah study
Contemporary
[edit]- Tikkun (magazine), a quarterly interfaith Jewish magazine and website
- Tiqqun, a radical French philosophical journal
- Tikkun (film), a 2015 Israeli film