tikkun
Pronunciations
tikkun | (TEE-koon) | listen |
Definitions
n. "A volume containing the Hebrew text of the Chumash...without vowels or accents [trop] [usually side by side with the text with vowels and trop] to help the...reader prepare for the public reading of the Torah" (Steinmetz, Dictionary of Jewish Usage).
n. "An improvement or rectification of a penitent soul' (Steinmetz, Dictionary of Jewish Usage).
n. A shot of liquor drunk in honor of a yahrzeit (Steinmetz, Dictionary of Jewish Usage).
Example Sentences
"As you enter the year leading up to your bat mitzvah, we wanted to give you a tikkun as a gift."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
Heb. תיקון / תִּקּוּן 'rectification, making right, improvement, repair, restoration' (plural תיקונים / תִּקּוּניִם tikkunim) > Yid. תּיקון tikn 'improvement, redress' (plural תּיקונים tikunim)
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
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- View More
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
tikun, tikn
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