Tikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). Those vessels were unable to contain those energies and were shattered by their force. The broken shards fall in a shower of sparks into the dark abyss where they are captured by the Archons, demons of the deep. The shattering of the vessels is called Shevirah, and the job of reconstruction Tikkun...