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*Note: “True believers” - in the traditional bookshelf of
Judaism. “Heretics - the chalutzim who rejected the
traditional bookshelf and sought a new way to continue
Jewish-Zionist life. Both believe passionately in their path.

INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY embodies the concept of
TIKKUN OLAM – mending and transforming the
world. Mending and transforming the world necessitates
personal and communal engagement with and within the
surrounding society and environment. In Labor Zionism,
Tikkun Olam has been a PERSONAL and COMMUNAL
political process spearheaded by intentional communities.

Tikkun Olam involves the individual, the community and
the world. "Think globally – Act locally". Labor Zionist
intentional communities, urban and non-urban, will strive to
realize, "in micro", the way of life they seek to project into
the surrounding society "in macro".

5. Labor Zionism sees the concept of the God Idea as a
unifying symbol for the people of Israel (Clal
Yisrael). Labor Zionism rejects transcendent
authority such as Divinely ordained Torah and Divine
interaction with human fate.

5. Labor Zionism sees education, formal and informal,
both in Israel and in the Diaspora as the central means for
inculcating a Labor Zionist way of life. In particular, for the
Diaspora, Labor Zionism sees a properly structured “gap
year” in Israel after high school as the desirable norm in
Jewish education. Such programs should expose young
people, cognitively and experientially, to options of
purposive Aliya such as intentional communities committed
to Labor Zionist ideals.

6. PURPOSIVE ALIYA.
What are the implications of “Purposive Aliya”
From the writings of A.D. Gordon–there are three
inferences: