Jason Rubenstein. For the last millennium it has been generally assumed that when confronted with questions like “why be Jewish” or “why observe the Torah”, the type of answer will be found in some account of the Torah’s origin and uniqueness. In other words, the answers to our existential questions about Jewishness are to be found in a theory of revelation: Since these are God’s words, I/we live this way. If we only had the right theory, the right kind of account of the Torah’s origins, then our choices, our way of life, would be justified. From close analysis of Rabbinic texts and the Rambam's eighth principle of faith, Jason Rubenstein suggests that the primary motivation for living a life of Torah can, and should, be love, not belief; a relationship with the Torah, not an intellectual claim that it was revealed by God at a certain time and place.