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Chapter 14, in this week’s parshah, ostensibly opens with a verse which limits the religious propriety of injuring one’s body as an expression of mourning: “You are children of the Lord your God. You shall not gash yourselves (lo titgodidu) nor make a bald spot on the front of your head for the dead.” (Deut. 14:1)