237. Why Challenges Repeat: Understanding Your Soul’s Tikkune
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In this episode of Spiritually Hungry Podcast, we explore tikkune—the soul’s correction. According to ancient wisdom, the challenges we face in this lifetime are not random; they are connected to the actions and lessons of many lifetimes. Your tikkune is the sum of the patterns, obstacles, and opportunities that invite your soul to grow. The very thing standing between where you are and where you want to be may be the correction your soul most desires.
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| 0:00.0 | What we experience in this lifetime is not just only based on our actions in this lifetime, |
| 0:13.5 | but it's many lifetimes before. |
| 0:15.9 | And the more that we do things in a negative way or take negative actions, we are given the opportunity |
| 0:22.3 | to come back and to repair those. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. I'm hungry. This happens once in a while. We have |
| 0:35.3 | such a rush day that when we sit down to do this and I say spiritually hungry, I realize that I'm actually hungry. |
| 0:41.1 | Today we're going to talk about a very profound, deep, Kabbalistic concept. It is one of the most life-changing consciousness, altering of consciousness that I think one will have in this lifetime. I remember when I first |
| 0:55.4 | learned it, it kind of put everything into a new perspective, a new scope, and it helped me |
| 1:02.4 | understand the purpose of challenges and pain and even just connection and love in a way that |
| 1:10.6 | I don't think you could fully appreciate |
| 1:13.2 | the reasons for all of those things in our lives. So if you haven't figured it out, today we're |
| 1:17.8 | going to talk about the concept of Tikun, which means correction. And of course, that word |
| 1:24.5 | correction doesn't probably sound great, but it's really a return. It's a return to going back to self, really to discover who you are by recognizing the opportunity |
| 1:35.2 | in the places that you find to be most challenging and triggering. |
| 1:40.3 | I don't like the word triggering, but this is perfect. |
| 1:42.0 | Right. And usually it's in our spouse, our in-laws, our boss, the barista, the babysitter, your workout |
| 1:52.3 | buddy or your workout. |
| 1:53.8 | NEMISIS. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.0 | It's in all of those things where you think big and small, right? |
| 1:59.5 | I think part of the issue is sometimes people think it's these overarching things. And if I can just get rid of that one thing, then I would be happy. Then I will live the life I want. But it's also in those little things. We really don't know why we're here. Maybe it's to offer one kindness to some random stranger. And that's why we had an opportunity to give or not give. So we're going to unpack this idea of |
| 2:19.3 | Tikoon. Again, it's life altering. We're going to be doing two episodes on this. We're going to do |
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