Kahal as Spontaneous Order

Joseph Lifshitz ()
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Joseph Lifshitz: Rabbi Yitzhak Yechiel Yeshiva, Shalem Center

No 7, Working Papers from Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS)

Abstract: One description of the people of Israel is Kahal, a category that the Talmud is also concerned with. This category was further employed later in the middle ages, and was given to the Jewish community, although some times with a little twist, the Kehila. This paper will focus mainly on the question of the formation of the Kahal as a large political body in the Bible and in the Talmud, and explore the political implications that can be derived from it. The Kahal as a spontaneously-defined, non-organized political body must be clarified. To this end, I will borrow theoretical frameworks of Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi.

Keywords: Kahal; Jewish Thought; Spontaneous Order; Hayek (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-06

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