（SJANews）来自校长的讲话——修缮世界

Message from the headmaster校长的信

Tikkun Olam修缮世界

My students know that I usually don’t read or respond to emails after 10:00 p.m., but last month I received a text from our son John after 10:00 p.m. that has been on my mind ever since: “Tikkun Olam. This looks like a chapel talk. Maybe [this is] what you mean when you say leave it better than you found it.” Needless to say, being intrigued and nerdy, I immediately got online to see what I could find out about this phrase.

我的学生都知道，我通常晚上10点之后就不会阅读或回复电子邮件，但是上个月有一天晚上10点多我收到了儿子John发来的一条信息“Tikkun olam”，从那时起我就一直将这句话铭记在心。这句话看起来像是礼堂演讲内容，也许这就是你们所说的“离开时会比初识时更美好”的意思。这激起了我的好奇心，所以我立刻上网查找这个词语的意思

The information available online indicated that the term originally came from the Hebrew rabbinical tradition but more recently has been translated to “repairing the world”. The traditional meaning came from the belief that, in the time since God created the world and filled it with light, evil has dispersed that light. According to the traditions of tikkun olam, it is the duty of good people to help reunite this divine light through prayer and good works, thereby participating in God’s plan for the world.

网上查询的信息表明，这个词最初来自希伯来教士传统，但最近被翻译成“修缮世界”。传统意义源于这样一种信念：在上帝创造世界并用光填满世界的时候，邪恶已经驱散了光明。根据tikkun olam的传统，善良的人们有责任通过祈祷和善行来帮助重聚这束神圣的光，从而参与上帝对世界的计划。

I didn’t get much sleep that night as I thought about this idea (and that’s why I don’t read messages after 10:00!), and the very next day, I encountered a concrete example of tikkun olamas I met with art teacher Rodney Reis. Rod has long been our point person in stewarding our art collection and is largely responsible for the restoration of our portrait of Thaddeus Fairbanks and the new lighting of the portraits in Colby Hall. During our meeting, Rod showed me pictures of work he had been doing in Brantview repairing and restoring the parlors there to their original luster and elegance.

当我有了这个想法的时候，那天晚上我就失眠了（这就是为什么我10点以后不看信息的原因！）。第二天，当我遇到艺术老师Rodney Reis时，我就发现了tikkun olam的一个具体例子。长期以来，Rod一直是我们学院管理艺术收藏品的核心人物，他主要负责修复Thaddeus Fairbanks的肖像以及Colby大厅新的肖像照明设施。在我们的交谈期间，Rod给我看了他在BrantView工作时的照片，他修复了那里的客厅，使之恢复到原来的光泽和优雅。

Back when Brantview became a dormitory and fire codes required the installation of a sprinkler system, workers bored holes through the historic walls to accommodate the pipes and sprinkler heads, and when we upgraded that system in the recent Brantview renovation, we removed those pipes, exposing the holes and other damage. Rod immediately volunteered to take on the work of repairing the damage. He created his own device to help affix wooden plugs inside the holes, made castings of the decorative carvings and moldings along the various walls, and then—on scaffolds that reminded me of Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel—hand painted the repaired areas so that they are truly indistinguishable from the 19th-century beauty around them.

当BrantView刚成为宿舍楼的时候，消防法规要求安装自动喷水灭火系统，工人们在历史悠久的墙壁上钻孔以容纳管道和喷头。而在最近的BrantView翻修改造中，拆除这些管道后，这些孔和其他损坏之处立即暴露了出来。Rod立即自愿承担起修复损坏的工作。他发明了自己的装置来帮助在孔径中安装木塞，沿着不同的墙壁制作装饰性雕刻和模型的铸件，让我想起米开朗基罗的画作，经过西斯廷教堂手工绘制修复的区域，赋予其一种不同于19世纪的美丽。

After showing slides of Rod’s work in Chapel, I made a few observations:

在展示了Rod在教堂的修复作品之后，我做了一些观察：

1. There are lots of things that need to be repaired in the world: the environment, relationships, and people, to name a few. Many times, the damage has been caused by people doing what they thought was best at the time; I’m sure if the sprinkler system could have been installed in some less intrusive way back in the day, it would have been.

   世界上有很多需要修复的东西：环境、关系和人，等等。很多时候，各种损坏都是源于当时人们所认为的最佳做法；我敢肯定，如果当初安装自动喷水灭火系统的侵入性不那么强的话，情况不会是这样的。

   
   

2. At different times of the year, each of us is more or less keenly aware of brokenness within and around us. To be able to practice tikkun olam, we have to be awake and aware of what needs repairing in our world.

   在一年中的不同时期，我们每个人或多或少都经历过心碎时刻和周围环境的破碎。想要修复这些破损，我们必须保持清醒，意识到在我们的世界里什么是需要修缮的。

3. Rod’s work shows us a way to repair the world. First, we need to care, following our personal passion or vocation, in the same way Rod cared for artistic beauty and his alma mater. Second, we need to recognize and develop our skills so that we can be useful in repairing what has been damaged; Rod has spent decades honing his artistic skills. Lastly, we need to persevere despite hardship, challenges, and difficulties, inventing creative solutions to problems, like Rod did as he climbed up and down the scaffolding and found creative ways to plug those holes。

   Rod的作品向我们展示了一种修复世界的方法。首先，我们需要关心，坚持个人追求或职业，就像Rod关心艺术的美好以及他的母校一样。第二，我们需要认识并提升技能，以便我们有足够的能力修复已损坏的事物；Rod花了几十年时间磨练他的艺术技能。最后，我们需要勇敢地面对挑战和困难，想出有创造性的解决方案，就像Rod在修复BrantView时那样，找到创造性的方法来堵住这些漏洞。

4. We should appreciate those who have been forces for repairing what is broken in our world: people who care for us, use their gifts for our good, and stick with us through our challenges, finding creative and new ways to make us whole.

   我们应该感谢那些修缮过世界的力量：关心我们的人，用他们的礼物为我们谋取利益的人，和我们一起度过难关的人，找到创造性和创新的方式让我们变得完整的人。

5. Finally, we should always believe that repairing the brokenness in the world,--in ourselves or in others—is possible. We should never give up hope.

   最后，我们应该始终相信，修复世界上的破碎，无论是自己还是他人，都是有可能的。我们不应该放弃希望。

As Professor Chan Hellman of the University of Oklahoma recently told a group of educators, “Hope is a social gift. It’s not something that takes place in isolation within you; it’s something that we share.” Hellman’s research shows that hope is measurable, ebbs and flows, and can be gained or lost. The more hope a young person has, he says, the more control he or she can have over his or her life and the more successful he or she will be. Hellman cited three requirements for hope: goals, realistic paths to attain those goals, and the willpower to proceed down those paths. He said that hope is harder for the traumatized; the more trauma one has experienced, the harder it is to believe that things can be fixed or that things can improve. In recognizing that we all have experienced some degree of trauma in our lives, he stressed that we all need encouragement to hope.

正如俄克拉荷马大学的Chan Hellman教授最近向一群教育工作者所说的那样：“希望是一种社会型礼物。这不是孤立在你内心发生的事情，而是我们共同分享的事情。”Hellman的研究表明，希望是可以衡量的，是可以消退的，是可以获得或失去的。他说，一个年轻人的希望越大，他或她对自己生活的控制力越强，他或她就越容易成功。Hellman列举了希望的三个要求：目标，实现这些目标的现实路径，以及沿着这些路径前进的意志力。他说，对于精神创伤的人来说，希望更难实现；一个人经历的创伤越多，就越难相信事情能够得到修复，或者事情能够得到改善。在认识到我们在生活中都经历了某种程度的创伤后，他强调我们都需要鼓励来获得希望。

Since the 1950’s, tikkun olam has been synonymous with social action, and I believe there is much to be gained by looking at the term that way. However, as an educator at a school that has the lamp of knowledge in the center of its seal, I also hold onto the original meaning of the term and believe in the duty of good people to help restore and gather dispersed light. If hope is indeed more than a feeling and something that we share, we can all—as educators, parents, grandparents, mentors, and friends—recognize the glimmers of light in young people and work to help that light shine more brightly and reunite them with the fuller light of an even brighter future.

自20世纪50年代以来，tikkun olam都被当作一种社会行动，我相信这样我们会收获更多。然而，在以知识之灯为中心的学校里担任教育者，我也坚持这个词的最初意义，以及好人有责任帮助恢复和重聚这束分散的光。如果希望真的不仅仅是一种感觉和我们所分享的东西，那么我们都可以将自己当作教育者、父母、祖父母、导师和朋友，发现年轻人身上的光芒，努力帮助这些光芒更加明亮，让他们与更加光明的未来重聚。

In the News

Hilltopper Girls' Basketball Team Wins Vermont Division 1 Championship

山巅女子篮球队赢得佛蒙特州一级联赛冠军

The SJA girls beat their rival CVU for the Vermont Division 1 title for the second year in a row.

SJA女生连续第二年击败对手CVU获得佛蒙特州一级联赛冠军。

Four Members of the SJA Math Team Invited to Attend National MathCON CompetitionSJA

数学团队的四名成员受邀参加全国数学竞赛

Four math students were invited to attend MathCON 2019 Finals Day on April 27, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.

2019年4月27日，四名数学专业的学生受邀参加在伊利诺伊州芝加哥市举行的2019年数学大会总决赛。

SJA Boys' Ski Team Wins Back-to-Back Titles

SJA男孩滑雪队赢得了背靠背的冠军

Robotics Team Wins FIRST Robotics Competition

机器人团队赢得第一场机器人比赛

The Robotics Team defeated 35 teams from across New England to win the FIRST Robotics New England Regional District Competition.

机器人团队击败了来自新英格兰的35支队伍，赢得了首届新英格兰地区机器人大赛。

Mark Your calendars

Thursday, March 14, 3:30-6:30 p.m.

格蕾丝·斯图尔特·奥卡特图书馆

人类的图书馆

Thursday, March 21, 3:30 p.m.

格蕾丝·斯图尔特·奥卡特图书馆

艾德丽安·拉菲尔06年在谈论她的诗集时，what this for?

Monday, March 25 through Wednesday, March 27; Monday, April 1 through Tuesday, April 2, 8:00 a.m.

所有佛蒙特州9年级学生的SBAC测试。教堂将于上午9点20分开始。

Thursday, April 4, 2019

家长日注册将于3月18日星期一开始。

Monday, April 22 through Tuesday, April 23, 8:00 a.m.

所有佛蒙特州11年级学生的VTSA科学测试。教堂将于上午9点20分开始。

Sense of the Week

The girls' basketball team was all smiles after winning their second state title in a row against rival CVU.

女子篮球队在与对手哥伦比亚大学的比赛中连续第二年获得州冠军后，脸上洋溢着笑容。

Plenty of action shots from the championship alpine races at Burke

许多动作镜头从冠军高山比赛在Burke

enior Recognition photos of our winter teams are available

我们的冬季团队的高清照片

Photos from the boys' quarter-final win against North Country are here. The boys take on Rice in the semi-final game tonight at 6:00 p.m.

这里是男孩队四分之一决赛战胜北方队的照片。男孩们将在今晚6点的半决赛中对阵莱斯

Take a look at our new video "Spring at SJA", released in Chapel this morning. Senior Sam Bulpin wrote and performed the music; filmmaking teacher Alex Shea was videographer

看看我们今天早上在教堂发布的新视频“春天的SJA”。高年级学生山姆·布尔平负责作曲和表演;电影制作老师亚历克斯·谢伊是一名摄像师