“Tikkun olam starts at home, beginning with seeking to overcome the alienation and sinat chinam (causeless hatred) from within”

Perhaps during the period before and during Tisha b’Av, and extending into the High Holy Days and through Yom Kippur, instead of preaching their strongly held views and criticisms of Israel, those Jewish leaders in the diaspora highly critical of Jerusalem’s policies should humbly seek to understand its realities. Tikkun olam starts at home, beginning with seeking to overcome the alienation and sinat chinam (causeless hatred) from within.

Gerald M. Steinberg, “Beyond Tikkun Olam: An Agenda for Tisha b’Av”, The Jewish Week (19 July 2013), 22.