“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 – what’s the deal with ma’aser, the command to give one-tenth of our crops to the Levites, the clan who officiated in the ancient Temple, a command that is still operative today in Israel?