Our moral-spiritual path to tikkun olam as faith-based community organizers

Abstract

אֲ נִי רוֹצֶה לִ הְ יוֹת עֶ בֶ ד הי לְ תַ קֵּ ן אֶ ת הָ עוֹלָם (I want to be a servant of God to repair the world) we told ourselves (and each other), time and time again. But the desire to do that was often at odds with the need to repair ourselves. It seemed if we were doing the one, we were ignoring the other. We stayed stuck in this muddle until we learned several lessons.