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to create bonds, emotional and
cognitive. These symbols find
expression in the celebration of
the weekly and annual time cycle
as well as communally marked
rites of passage of individuals
within that community.

4. Both in Israel and in the
Diaspora, Labor Zionism strives to
create INTENTIONAL
COMMUNITY, urban and non-
urban, which reflects a way of life
(Torat Chaim ) whose ultimate
concern is a life of purpose.
Avraham Shlonsky Intentional Community: People
(1900-1973) who live together because of
shared values and ideals as well as a shared action program
to impact on surrounding society on the basis of those
values and ideals.
Intentional Community in Israel has been the optimal path
of Labor Zionist hagshama within the Habonim Dror
federation for the past 80 years. For Habonim Dror, its
optimal expression until the 1980s was the collective
kibbutz.

Within the context of cultural Labor Zionism, the kibbutz
exemplified the rationale of the Chautzim (pioneers) of the
first quarter of the 20 Century. In the words of the poet
th
Avraham Shlonsky, 1900-1973:
ה
(Selected lines from לאו הלא (These and These) , 1930.)
And thus we face the bookshelf of Jewish canon
At the juncture of generations between night and dawn
And with the passion of true believers and heretics*
We dared to create from the beginning
For we came here to continue the Way.