As Solomon Schechter noted, "however great the literary value of a code may be, it does not invest it with infallibility, nor does it exempt it from the student or the rabbi who makes use of it from the duty of examining each paragraph on its own merits, and subjecting it to the same rules of interpretation that were always applied to Tradition".
Tal como dixera Salomón Schechter: "a magnitude do valor literario dun código non lle adxudica inefabilidade, nin o exime do estudante ou o rabino que fan uso do mesmo desde a súa obriga de examinar cada parágrafo polos seus propios méritos, facéndoo suxeito das mesmas regras de interpretación que foron aplicadas sempre á Tradición".