Q:
Why do sefarim state that women should be modest? Don’t men also need to be modest?
A:
Question: Why do women have to be modest? Don’t men also have to be modest?
And the answer is, that something that doesn’t have to be explained to people shouldn’t be explained. Something that’s such apparent common sense is not necessary to explain. However, if you want more explanation, see me privately.
It’s common sense that women have to cover up and be more reserved than men. It’s common sense. Everybody knows that women have a much more modest approach in the world to things. They don’t have the drive that men have.
You see that one man can have a thousand wives in the days of old, not today of course. But it was possible for a man to have a thousand wives and he can make pregnant a thousand wives, one man, he had a thousand pregnant wives whereas one woman needs only one husband.
So you see there’s a big difference. The drive in men, in males, is tremendously greater than that in women. And that’s a big difference. Very simple difference.
(December 1982)
