DEUT88 (Continued from [[DEUT1633]] Deuteronomy 30:19 life BLOCH 241-2) Every effort must therefore be made to preserve and prolong it. The rabbis cited several biblical injunctions as the source of the obligation to safeguard one's health. The commands "Only take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul carefully" [this verse] and "You should be very careful of your souls" (Deuteronomy 4:15) were regarded as warnings against endangering one's life (Berachot 32b). Another source is [Genesis 2:7]: "And man became a living soul." "The Bible thereby implies, 'keep alive the soul which I gave you'" (Taanit 22b). Maimonides (12th-cent.) addressed a warning to those who allege that their state of health should be of no concern to other people. "There are many things which the rabbis have prohibited because they endanger of human life. He who says: 'I am only endangering myself, and no others have a right to interfere,' the rabbis may administer to them disciplinary flogging" (Hilchot Rotzeach 11:5). Man has a right to put himself to shame, if he is indifferent to public opinion, but no one may lawfully injure himself (Baba Kama 91b).