http://www.tikun.co.uk/ A better world through ancient Jewish wisdom Tikun 2012 http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---bo.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---bo.php Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:10:27 UT Good Afternoon!! I hope that everyone had an opportunity to take a little time off during the holidays. It's good to take some time off to rejuvenate, but it's even better to be back in reality. As necessary as escapes might be now and then, real life is so much more engaging! http://www.tikun.co.uk/events/jewish-wisdom-events/why-marriage-wont-make-you-happy---part-1-of-2.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/events/jewish-wisdom-events/why-marriage-wont-make-you-happy---part-1-of-2.php Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:44:01 UT http://www.tikun.co.uk/events/jewish-wisdom-events/why-marriage-wont-make-you-happy---part-2-of-2.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/events/jewish-wisdom-events/why-marriage-wont-make-you-happy---part-2-of-2.php Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:12:27 UT http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---beshalach.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---beshalach.php Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:44:37 UT Good Afternoon!! Just a thought on the undercover policeman, Mark Kennedy, who offered to give evidence on behalf of the defendants he had been sent to catch. Whilst I don't know the case well enough to offer a fully informed comment, it does seem to me that a person is correct to stand by his principles even if it that contradicts the job that he was paid to do. Obviously, he should not go outside the rule of law to do this, but as far as I know all that he has done is offer to speak up in their defense in a courtroom. That's simply part of the legal process. I can understand why the police might not be happy but I believe it's good for our society when people have principles and stand by them. http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/the-6-constant-mitzvos---experience-god---s-presence.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/the-6-constant-mitzvos---experience-god---s-presence.php Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:56:56 UT http://www.tikun.co.uk/events/jewish-wisdom-events/the-6-constant-mitzvos---love-him.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/events/jewish-wisdom-events/the-6-constant-mitzvos---love-him.php Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:04:15 UT http://www.tikun.co.uk/articles-and-podcasts/6-constant-mitzvot---mitzvah-1--experience-god-s-presence--audio.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/articles-and-podcasts/6-constant-mitzvot---mitzvah-1--experience-god-s-presence--audio.php Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:24:11 UT 6 Constant Mitzvot Miztvah 1: Experience God's presence http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/feeding-the-hungry--nourishing-the-soul.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/feeding-the-hungry--nourishing-the-soul.php Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:06:39 UT CNN Hero Narayanan Krishnan gave up a career as a chef to feed the homeless three meals a day in Madurai, India. http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---yisro.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---yisro.php Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:42:04 UT Good Afternoon!! We have a guest speaker at Tikun on Monday night at 8pm - Rabbi Ari Kahn. He is here from Israel and I highly recommend him. His talk is entitled, 'Who Wrote the Bible?' and will touch on archaeological, scientific and other evidence that point towards Divine authourship. Ari is a University lecturer as well as a Rabbi and is as well versed in secular studies as he is in Judaism. Please come along and enjoy. In March, we are running a 10 day trip to Thailand. It is a volunteering and educational trip. Our focus is on the human slave trade, which is rampant in Thailand. We will be meeting victims and organisations that are helping them, assisting in their work, understanding our own ability to address problems that seem distant from us and examining our responsibilities to our world. If you are interested, please be in touch. It will be a perspective shifting experience. http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---mishpatim.php http://www.tikun.co.uk/tikun-highlights/weekly-davar---mishpatim.php Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:53:22 UT Good Afternoon!! I went to visit a sick person in Switzerland this weekend. Someone was saying to me that's a long way to go to try to support someone you don't know. But how far is too far to go to comfort another person? Down the road? To the other end of town? To another town? Another country? The other side of the world? To the moon? How far is too far? I suppose it depends on how much we value human beings, on how much we appreciate that another human being is an entire world. When we get to the end of our short lives in this world, we will look back not on how much we slept on a Sunday, how much money we made, how tired we were during life or how much precious time we saved for ourselves - we will simply look back on how much we gave of ourselves, on how much good we accomplished. So how far is too far to go?