What Does it Mean to be Tamim

Why is the Torah’s attitude towards magic, soothsayers etc so negative, and how is the normative instruction in the command to be “wholehearted with the Lord your G-d” an alternative to them?
The answer lies in understanding the full gamut of meanings implied by “wholehearted” or in Hebrew, tamim. This concept appears in the Torah in four contexts, all of them pointing towards one shared meaning—completeness

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