This paper presents a comparison between Melanie Klein's concept of reparation and the Kabbalistic myth of tikkun. Both are metaphors of creation, fragmentation and re-creation—of the maternal object on the one hand and of the mystical cosmos on the other. The similarities between the themes underlying the two concepts, the symbolic forms in which they are expressed and the issues they raise are detailed and discussed. The comparison is followed by a consideration of those features of Kleinian theory which have made possible a psychoanalytic interpretation of the Kabbalistic myth. It is suggested that tikkun expresses on the mythical, cultural level, the same dynamics that the concept of reparation does on the level of the individual psyche. Further, it is suggested that Kleinian theory may open new possibilities for an object-relations approach to the psychoanalytic theory of religion.