There is no way to belong partially. Joining means moving into a community, handing over property, taking a Hebrew name and submitting to the elders' oversight of work, education, marriage and discipline. Members describe the totality as the point — a half-committed community is the thing they left. The cost shows on the way out: leaving after fifteen years means leaving with what you can carry, and second-generation members who leave have often had no state schooling and no documents of employment. The community's answer is that it feeds and houses anyone who stays.