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Observing Shabbat… What’s The Point?

January 09, 2014

“What’s the point of Judaism?” How many of us have asked this question? Turns out, Jews have been asking them for a long time. Join Rabbi Knopf as he and his students study and discuss “Sefer Ha-Hinukh / The Book of Education.” Written anonymously in the mid-13th century, this radical book offers rationales for every commandment in the Torah.


This week – why are we commanded to refrain from labor on Shabbat? What’s the point of observing the Sabbath?