"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."

"One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and one who rules his spirit than one who conquers a city."

"The human soul is a divine spark, and it is capable of uniting with God."

"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."

"For if a man were to study the Torah with a view to obtaining reward, and keeping the commandments in order to escape punishment, he would be studying not for the sake of the Torah, but for the sake o…"