If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.