Why Aren’t the Face & Hands Included in Modest Dress Code? - Rabbi Akiva Fox

if you ever noticed it's a very interesting fact that until about 50 years ago all clothes had something in common and that was when people still wore clothes basically the parts of a human body that clothes cover-up is everywhere except for the hands and the head everything else is covered with clothes there's a reason for that because men and animals share something in common and that's their body anything that we share in common with an animal we want to hide were embarrassed of that everything that we distinguishes us from an animal for example our intellect and our skills that we reveal that we leave open when it comes to modesty we want to cover up anything that's animalistic superficial anything that has any resemblance of our animal self because as divine creatures as people that represent God as people that have intellect and skills we only want to show what we are proud of and that is our intellect and our skills that make us the divine creatures we are [Music]