In this week’s parshah, the Torah commands: “V’nishmartem me’od l’nafshoseichem, ki lo re’isem kol temunah…”—“You shall be very careful with your souls (your lives), for you did not see any image…” (Devarim 4:15). The Torah here links our obligation to protect our health with the fact that Hashem
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