 Asa Kasher, a neo-Leibowitzian, has argued that Leibowitz here does not present a paradox at all, but instead a circle that is related to the one discussed earlier in section 3. Kasher contends that Leibowitz is arguing that halakhah creates its faith through its designation of the institutions of Judaism, primarily the divinity of Scripture, with its demand to serve God, while Scripture designates the halakhic system as the way in which such divine service is realized. (A. Kasher, 1976, 239–40). Leibowitz in response concedes to Kasher that there is no paradox, but stresses that no matter how many times one goes around the circle, the ultimate commitment to the life of mitzvoth must come from beyond the circle, from a conative – rather  than cognitive – commitment that is beyond reason (see “Responses,” 277–278).