Torat Hakalkala (Hebrew for "Economics" or "Tora of Economics") aims to formulate a Jewish perspective on today's economic and political challenges and to take a stand on current developments and trends. The millennia-old tradition of Jewish thought is analyzed to determine which considerations, ideas, concepts and models can be found that can inspire orientation today. The rabbis of the Talmud, for example, had already developed ideas based on the Torah of an economic community whose basic features have proven themselves in Jewish tradition from ancient times through the Middle Ages to modern times and have also found expression in some secular movements. What is essential about Jewish economic and social ethics is that they are fundamentally business-friendly and socially minded. In Judaism, the material world is not rejected, but is to be tapped through conscious interaction with it for the sanctification of life. Man is seen as God's co-creator. This promotes a religious realism that includes concrete economic activity.