{"id":3021,"date":"2013-01-29T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T10:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/?page_id=3021"},"modified":"2013-03-17T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T08:40:08","slug":"guard-yourselves-very-well-protecting-our-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/guard-yourselves-very-well-protecting-our-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Guard Yourselves Very Well: Protecting Our Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>The Jewish tradition places a strong value on being healthy. The Torah states, \u201cGuard yourself and guard your soul very much&#187; and \u201cYou shall guard yourselves very well.&#187; The Jewish Sages explain that these verses refer to the mitzvah (commandment) of protecting one\u2019s physical body and health.<\/p>\n<p>There are very many applications of this mitzvah to guard our health. Jewish law employs a term&#8212; Ba\u2019al Nefesh Yachmir, or \u201cA master of the spirit will be stringent\u201d&#8212; when a sage senses a cause for concern but does not find it appropriate to forbid something to the public. One relevant item for all of us and our families is the reduction of exposure to chemicals such as pesticides.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\">Learn this topic<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/guard-yourselves-very-wellshort-article\">Short Summary Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/guard-yourselves-very-welllong-article\">Longer Article for Deeper Study<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf\/Health_Source_Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Study Guide with Hebrew-English Sources and Discussion Questions<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\">Additional Media Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen!<a href=\"http:\/\/canfeinesharim.podbean.com\/2013\/01\/02\/guard-yourselves-very-well-protecting-our-health\"> Audio Podcast on Protecting Our Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Video!<a href=\"#video\"> Protecting Our Health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"video\" name=\"video\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mDjvGprsIKk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary The Jewish tradition places a strong value on being healthy. The Torah states, \u201cGuard yourself and guard your soul very much&#187; and \u201cYou shall guard yourselves very well.&#187; The Jewish Sages explain that these verses refer to the mitzvah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"inner-pages.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3021","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishecoseminars.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}