If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.