Abstract
This chapter considers the possibility that communities are not only instrumentally but also intrinsically valuable. They are ends rather than or as well as means. The chapter discusses the educational implications of thinking about communities as ends in themselves, rather than as means to individual fulfilment and flourishing. It also considers what happens if, in our construction of visions of Jewish education, we seek to establish not only what makes an educated Jew but also what an ideal Jewish community is. The chapter questions whether or not it is even possible to sustain an enquiry into this question, or if any discussion of educational aims inevitably collapse into individualistic terms.