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Allan Bloom On Modesty and What It Means to Be Human
The fact that it’s uncomfortable, unfair, and imbalanced isn’t a quirk of the system but a feature.
In the past half-century, the subject of modesty (in Hebrew, tsni’ut), and, in particular, feminine modesty, has become a major preoccupation in some Orthodox circles, and a major flashpoint for intra-Orthodox debate. Reviewing a collection of writings on the subject, Sarah Rindner turns to an unlikely source: the scholar of political theory Allan Bloom:
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Allan Bloom On Modesty and What It Means to Be Human
The fact that it’s uncomfortable, unfair, and imbalanced isn’t a quirk of the system but a feature.