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Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.
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― Blueprints
― Blueprints
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Somewhere in the teachings of every wisdom tradition on earth is the admonition to “make whole that which is broken.” In Judaism, it is tikkun olam, “repair of the world.” It is said that in the eyes of God, an object that has been repaired is more holy than one that is new. There is an interpretation in Judaism of the world as we see it and of how it came to be; it is a retelling of the Genesis story by the sixteenth-century mystic Isaac Luria. In his vision, Luria saw that God filled the entir
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― Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
― Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture