"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…"

"women may not be appointed to any type of public leadership position in the Jewish community."

"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."

"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil."

"As for Gentiles with whom we are not at war… their death must not be caused, but it is forbidden to save them if they are at the point of death; if, for example, one of them is seen falling into the s…"