"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."

"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."

"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 …"

"The human soul is a spiritual substance, and it is immortal."

"The human being is a microcosm of the universe."