"The human intellect is a part of the divine emanation which is united with man."

"He who casts off the yoke [of the Law], and he who severs the Abrahamic covenant; he who interprets the Torah against the halakic tradition, and he who pronounces in full the Ineffable Name—all these …"

"A person should study the written Torah first, and then read this [book], and thereby know the entire oral Torah, so that he will not need to read any other book in between them."

"Do not consider that which I have written, as if it were a new invention, or a thing which I have discovered of my own accord, for I have only collected what is scattered in the books of the Sages, an…"

"The world is sustained by three things: Torah, divine service, and acts of loving-kindness."