All of the commandment that I command you today (Deuteronomy 8:1): This is what the verse stated (Proverbs 7:2), "Keep My commandments and live," since David said (Psalms 17:8), "Guard me like the apple of Your eye." Rabbi Yehudah of Sakhnin said, "There is [no piece of land fitting to plant] a fourth of a kav, which does not include nine kav of bad spirits." And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, "And they all have a veil over their faces." How is [it possible for people to avoid injury from them]? A man walks and [an angel] goes out in front of him and says, "Move to the sides before the likeness of the Holy One, blessed be He," as it is stated (Psalms 39:7), "Man walks in an image."
כָּל הַמִּצְוָה אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ. זֶה שֶׁאָמַר הַכָּתוּב: שְׁמֹר מִצְוֹתַי וֶחְיֵה (משלי ז, ב). לְפִי שֶׁדָּוִד אָמַר, שָׁמְרֵנִי כְּאִישׁוֹן בַּת עַיִן (תהלים יז, ח). אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוּדָה דְּסַכְנִין בְּשֵׁם רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר, אֵין בֵּית רֹבַע שֶׁאֵין בּוֹ תִּשְׁעָה קַבִּין מַזִּיקִין. אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי, וְכֻלָּן פוֹרְמָא בִּפְנֵיהֶם. כֵּיצַד, אָדָם מְהַלֵּךְ וַחֲבֵרוֹ יָצָא לְפָנָיו וְאוֹמֵר: הִסְתַּלְּקוּ לִצְדָדִין בִּפְנֵי אִיקוֹנִין שֶׁל הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: אַךְ בְּצֶלֶם יִתְהַלֵּךְ אִישׁ (שם לט, ז).
All of the commandment that I command you today (Deuteronomy 8:1): This is what the verse stated (Proverbs 7:2), "Keep My commandments and live," since David said (Psalms 17:8), "Guard me like the apple of Your eye." Rabbi Yehudah of Sakhnin said, "There is [no piece of land fitting to plant] a fourth of a kav, which does not include nine kav of bad spirits." And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, "And they all have a veil over their faces." How is [it possible for people to avoid injury from them]? A man walks and [an angel] goes out in front of him and says, "Move to the sides before the likeness of the Holy One, blessed be He," as it is stated (Psalms 39:7), "Man walks in an image."