Shocking Sayings

Anyone who attributes corporeality to the divinity is a heretic who has no share in the world to come.

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

their [the Turks and the blacks] nature is like the nature of mute animals, and according to my opinion they are not on the level of human beings.

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 have no share in the world to come.

if the woman claims she cannot live with her husband and have intimate relations with him because he is disgusting or loathsome to her, her claim is accepted without question and a divorce is immediately granted, although she loses the money of her k…

Maimonides goes so far as to say that the get is still valid even if the court must force him with lashes until he says he is prepared to give the get.

any man who believes in the truth of wizardry is a fool, lacking in understanding, and is in the same class as women and children, whose intellects are incomplete.

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.

Every attribute that is found in the books of the deity, may He be exalted, is therefore an attribute of His action and not an attribute of His essence.

The following have no share in the world to come, but are cut off, and perish, and receive their punishment for all time for their great sin: the minim, the apiḳoresim, they that deny the belief in the Torah, they that deny the belief in resurrection…

The following three classes are called 'apiḳoresim': (1) he who says there was no prophecy nor was there any wisdom that came from God and which was attained by the heart of man; (2) he who denies the prophetic power of Moses our master; (3) he who s…

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 sea, he should not be rescued, for it is written: '…

I have been made victorious with terror.

No nation will prosper that entrusts its affairs to a woman.

No one who has an atom's weight of pride in his heart will enter Paradise.

Indeed, I have been sent with concise words and comprehensive meanings.

The greatest Jihad is to speak a word of truth to a tyrannical ruler.

Do not curse the wind, for it is from the mercy of Allah.

The world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever.

The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.