"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it."

"It is a fundamental principle of our religion that a prophet may not add or subtract from a commandment, whether in the Written Torah or in the Oral Torah."

"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 aim of the law is to make man perfect, and it is impossible for man to be perfect so long as his mind is not perfect."

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