Articles tagged with: Tznius
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The greatest spiritual height a woman can reach, is perfection in matters of tznius. This can be seen from the fact that the Imahos (Foremothers), although in possession of many outstanding qualities, were immortalized and enshrined by a name that stands for perfect tznius. They were given the levona, as the verse says …Read the full story »
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Tznius is a countermeasure to the attempts of the yetzer horah. This explains why, subsequent to the sin of Adam and Chava, mankind suddenly felt a need to be clothed. 1 Similarly, it is stated in the Gemara 2 that the mitzvah of כיסוי שערות, the obligation for married women to cover …Read the full story »
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Apart from tznius being an outstanding mitzva in its own right, it serves a second function upon which much of a woman’s Yiddishkeit may depend. This is that tznius is an “antidote” to the yetzer horah (evil inclination) for women in much the same way as Torah learning is an antidote …Read the full story »
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Just as it is wrong to relate personnel matters to those who have no need to know them, so too it is obviously wrong to try to find out this type of information about others. To do so is tantamount to intruding into another person’s private domain to which one …Read the full story »
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If a mother tells her children that they will be having a baby shortly, b’ezras Hashem (with G-d’s help), she has a golden opportunity to educate them to the tznius of not revealing secrets. She should tell her children that she is telling them the good news so that they …Read the full story »
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The need for tznius and privacy applies also to one’s own secrets and private affairs not just those of other people. The Gemara 1 says that Esther did not reveal her identity – אין אסתר מגדת את עמה “Esther would not disclose who her people were.” 2 – because she …Read the full story »