Here we see the expression of this group's need to develop life skills in a more humane manner, as an expression of humanism - humanism that is always synonymous with sociability. These skills cannot be developed unless one is a part of a chevruta, an organic group, tangible life circles in which man is actualizing himself in each circle using the new modus operandi. There is no seperation between these life circles; they are unified in their modus operandi.
In this activity there is no seperation between individual life on one hand, and social life on the other. This means that individual life is the end, and social life is the means. From here we also draw the need for living in a social environment, which is an expression of a developed humanism. It is the expression of the development of social skills, the development of man.
There are places in which material life becomes the basic and only need. That is when society turns into a battlefield, through differential wages, or various kinds of privatization. In such places, regression occurs with great strength. Such places are the target for regeneration. Such regeneration will actually happen only if a certain group of people, a certain human circle, lives by a different modus operandi inside such a place. In order for this regeneration process to happen, we simply need to live differently, so that other people who are seeking the fulfillment of their natural human needs and do not find fulfillment in today's society will find it in our life circles.
Human reality is always shaped by the various powers that are active in it. We wish to see ourselves as the subjects of this regenerating reality. We wish to create it practically, not theoretically. This is why we need to shape the circles in which it is created in a matter that will allow us to actualize this, just as we do in the youth movement. We are trying to eliminate the gap between theory and practice in the educational process that occurs between the madrich and his chanichim. Theory has become activity. What is experienced by each of the two sides was spiritual and pure, and because of this it has not yet reached the examination of consciousness, but rather the meaning of this experience is self-education. Self-education educates toward understanding the praxis and eliminating the gap between the idea and reality.
From: The Community of Shitufi, Messimati Kibbutzim of Kvutzot
Notes: theoretical leads to practical
theory and action are connected
combine theory and action in all different circles of our lives - kvutza of kvutzot
see the larger body of kvutzot
it is a choice what groups you relate to or interact with
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