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Do You Treat Your Wife Like a Priceless Diamond? (3 minutes)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] a lot of people say the modesty laws women obviously and men are obligated to be modest in Judaism when you're a precious Jewel you're not supposed to expose your Priceless possessions to the world Hashem looks at each and every single Jew and each and every sing creation that he has is something Priceless especially when it's especially when it's human beings soem says you're not supposed to show that to the whole world you're supposed to protect it if you had a100 million do diamond you wouldn't throw it in the air to see what happens in the middle of the street what would you do you'd cover it You' put it in a safe you put a few bodyguards around it to make sure no one sees it no one looks at it even if anyone asks a question he's suspicious he's suspect why are you asking questions about my diamond now is that diamond any less valuable than your wife then why is your wife walking around half naked if the diamond of $100 million is not more valuable than your wife I mean if it's more valuable than your wife you married the wrong woman or maybe you're the wrong man but the point is that if you think that something that's a stone is more valuable than a human being you have a problem but if you realize that your wife is more valuable than100 million diamond or a billion dollar Diamond then you have to ask yourself the question why would you put bodyguards around the diamond and put it in a safe and cover it and protect it and everything but your wife that's priceless and your daughter that's priceless walk around showing everything to the world this is the mentality of the tah you're not supposed to show everything to the world a time and a place for everything and not Everyone's entitled to see everything so here is telling you if you know this rule you know that you have to be modest as a Jew you know that you have to be modest as a non-jew you know that you have to follow certain laws but you say no you know what everyone else is walking around with shorts so why shouldn't I modesty laws don't apply anymore to our generation everyone else walks around with a long wig why should I have a scarf of my head everyone else walks around with t-shirts why should I wear long sleeves it's hot our grandparents used to live in a desert but somehow they weren't hot we are hot with essential air conditioners you see the logic here it's complete a 100% but the point is that if you know that you're not allowed to do it and you still do it he says that your knowledge is working against you you actually get punished twice for it one for making the sin two for treating AEM with casualness thinking that you could just change his laws he says if you have such knowledge and you don't actually do something about it eventually you're going to become a complete 100% Cil [Music]