“Kill Yourself Over Torah” Does Not Mean Harm Yourself: What Does It Mean?
How can intense devotion to Torah be reconciled with the duty to protect health and life?
A source-faithful Torah discussion that reads “one who kills himself over Torah” as sacrificing comfort, distractions and ego rather than endorsing bodily harm or unsafe self-denial. This publication layer is based only on the canonical Hebrew mapping. It preserves the Torah framing and all review gates and does not add a practical ruling, medical conclusion, legal conclusion, or factual claim beyond the mapped source.