(Lev. 26:3:) “If [you walk] in My statutes (<i>huqqim</i>).” This text is related (to Job 14:5), “If his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have set limits (<i>huqqim</i>) that he shall not pass.” What is the meaning of “If his days are determined?” When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world, He determined the days of each and every one, as stated (in Gen. 1:14), “and let them be for signs, seasons, days, and years.” Now to whom did He give them? To Israel, as stated (in Ps. 147:19), “He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes (<i>huqqim)</i> and His ordinances to Israel.” (Job 14:5, cont.:) “The number of his months is with You; You have set his limits (<i>huqqim</i>) that he shall not pass.” The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Israel. “If you have carried out My statutes (<i>huqqim</i>), the adversary (<i>Satan</i>) shall not touch you, as stated, ‘that he shall not pass.’ But if you do not carry out My statutes, behold that the adversary will touch you, as stated (of death in Is. 28:19), ‘As often as he passes, he shall seize you.’<sup class="footnote-marker">1</sup><i class="footnote">In other words, Israel is safe from the death-dealing Adversary as long as the statutory limits (<i>huqqim</i>) remain intact through Israel’s observance of them.</i> I said so to Solomon, when he asked for wisdom. And what did I say to him? (I Kings 3:13:) ‘I have also granted you what you did not ask, both riches and honor.’ So if you fulfill the Torah, the angel of death shall not touch you, as stated to him (in I Kings 3:14), ‘If you go in My ways to fulfill My statutes and My commandments as David your father did, [then I will lengthen your days].’” Ergo, (in Job 14:5) “You have set limits (<i>huqqim</i>) that he shall not pass….” If the first Adam had observed the Torah and the commandments that I gave him, he would not have died. Therefore, it is written (in Lev. 26:3) “If you walk in My statutes (huqqim)….”