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  • February 16, 2015 5:27 pm at 5:27 pm #614888
    flatbusher
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    In a different thread, posters opposed exercise/working out because a person shouldn’t “worship” their bodies, or may come to do so, notwithstanding the Torah’s admonition “U’shmartem es nafshosaichem.” So, do these same people feel the same away about dressing nicely? Do you who oppose working out, advocate dressing in ill-fitted clothing, and do they frown upon those whose clothes may be what they would consider too fitted?

    February 16, 2015 7:04 pm at 7:04 pm #1060105
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    I assume you realize that there is no connection. You are asking if those who oppose to over focusing on health are opposed to people wearing clothing that lacks tznius. Were you really trying to ask if those in the first catagory oppose overfocus on dress?

    February 16, 2015 7:49 pm at 7:49 pm #1060106
    flatbusher
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    To clarify my point, there are those who oppose to working out because they say it makes people care too much about their bodies, namely to look good, and I wonder if they feel the same away about people who focus on the way they dress to make themselves look good.

    February 16, 2015 11:11 pm at 11:11 pm #1060107
    Joseph
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    There’s a difference between being excessive on an issue and being reasonable. The only question is where the line is drawn. But there certainly is a line.

    February 17, 2015 1:21 am at 1:21 am #1060108
    Little Froggie
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    Never found any mitzvah “U’shmartem es nafshosaichem”

    February 17, 2015 3:46 pm at 3:46 pm #1060109
    flatbusher
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    The pasuk cited is Devarim 4:15, and contains the word “me’od”

    February 17, 2015 8:07 pm at 8:07 pm #1060110
    Little Froggie
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    Highly doubt it. Check again!!!

    February 17, 2015 8:16 pm at 8:16 pm #1060111
    flatbusher
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    Why not open a chumash and look it up? The pasuk has been interpreted that one must take care of himself

    February 17, 2015 8:53 pm at 8:53 pm #1060112
    👑RebYidd23
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    Flatbusher, Little Froggie is trying to tell you that you misquoted.

    February 17, 2015 8:56 pm at 8:56 pm #1060113
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    See ??? ???:

    http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=9617&st=&pgnum=68

    February 17, 2015 9:02 pm at 9:02 pm #1060114
    Little Froggie
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    DY: Actually the passuk generally quoted it 15, I think. See Gemarah, Rishonim, Achronim, Poskim, Roshei Yeshivos, Talmidei Yeshivos..

    February 17, 2015 9:36 pm at 9:36 pm #1060115
    flatbusher
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    I stand corrected, thanks. I was looking at Pasuk 15 and see there the word is “V’nishmartem”

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