My co-organizer and I started this mutual aid project based on Jewish teachings about obligation to community but now that we're getting city funding she wants to professionalize everything and I'm worried we're losing the spirit of reciprocity that made this feel like genuine tikkun olam. We're succeeding in ways that might be undermining what we set out to do.
More people experience this than they realize.
Success in justice work creates pressures toward institutionalization that may contradict the very values that motivated the work originally.
“Where Are You with Jewish tikkun olam — repairing the world?”
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