00:01:55.360So this to me relates a lot to what I talk about on my channel regarding modesty.
00:02:02.200Our bodies are not entirely separate from our souls.
00:02:05.540Sometimes people think that our bodies hold us back or that the physical world inhibits our holy ascendance and closeness to God.
00:02:13.120But the truth is, is that our bodies are the gateway to being able to experience God's presence.
00:02:18.880By dressing in the holiest of garments when working in the tabernacle, as close to God as any person could be, the high priest is elevating his soul through what he wears.
00:02:34.840Wearing clothing that glorifies the body as separate from our souls or focuses on the sexuality of our body rather than its beauty as gifted by God takes us further from God's presence.
00:02:46.100When we dress modestly and beautifully, we are glorifying God's name.
00:02:51.060We are using our physical presence on earth to bring us closer to God.
00:02:55.860But I'm interested to hear your thoughts because modesty is a little bit of a touchy subject nowadays.
00:03:01.620And I also am very clear on my on my channel, on my podcast, that modesty for me, what it looks like for me as an Orthodox Jew is very different than what I expect from like the average person.
00:03:15.000I'm just like, if you can cover your cleavage, covered the bottom of your butt cheeks and cover your midriff, we're good.
00:04:14.820But like when young women do it, it's like supposedly no big deal when we over sexualize them.
00:04:20.120Um, so I think that secularly and culturally, we have studies that show that women who are promiscuous, that women that dress a certain way, um, net have negative experiences with their own self-esteem, their own self-worth, their self-consciousness, like so many things, depression, anxiety, they tend to be more promiscuous.
00:04:42.360They tend to have then more physical and emotional ailments from, from that like activity and secular studies showing like that is not good for women.
00:04:52.620Um, and I love that, even though I would take it from the Christian perspective of, um, being complete in Jesus and our body being a temple.
00:05:01.760And my mother, like kind of hounding that into me as a kid of like, it's not just your outward appearance that, that you're exuding and representing, you know, your faith and your family, but it's like what you choose to put in and do with your body as well.
00:05:16.600Like, um, whether that be destroying your lungs through smoking or using recreational drugs or overusing alcohol or choosing to be morbidly obese.
00:05:39.140I want to look like sexy for my husband and pretty on camera, but there's like a lot in between in there that it's possible to be feminine and attractive and classy and not dress like, you know, people that you see on OnlyFans.
00:06:07.380I mean, if, if you look at like, when I remember like reading about the description of OnlyFans and what people wouldn't, would not be doing over there and like Bella Thorne and some other people were like, well, I'm going to go over there.
00:06:18.560And I'm like, how is that any different than like what their car car Jenners do?
00:06:22.180I mean, how is it any different than, you know, what a lot of celebrities are posting on their Instagram?
00:06:27.460And by the way, they're still making money for it because as Chris Rock said in his latest special, that's the number one way to make money is show your.
00:06:39.280I have a friend on Instagram who has talked to me.
00:06:43.380We've talked to each other about this because we're both more like traditional.
00:06:46.760We both are modest on our Instagram posts.
00:06:49.620And we've said, you know, if we just did this, if we just exposed one area of our bodies, we would go up 200,000 followers the next day.
00:06:59.160Like, but we would never do it because to us, it's not, it's a hundred percent not worth it, obviously.
00:07:04.620But even more than that, it's just not, it's not good for you as a person and people who, you know, look, I am very used to being sexualized on the internet at this point.
00:07:23.440But at the end of the day, the people who are going to sexualize me, who are choosing to sexualize me, the trolls would sexualize me no matter what.
00:07:31.160But that doesn't mean that I have to then lean into it and give them an opportunity to see things that are, to me, precious and to my husband, precious and private.
00:07:42.740And it means that that's what I don't get about the Emily Ratajowskis or, you know, even like the Lena Dunham's of the world.
00:08:04.940And another thing that, you know, Chris Rock said in his special, it's like, well, I can do this in like this, a sex act on somebody and not have not never call her back.
00:08:14.140I mean, it's crap, but it's funny because it's true.
00:08:16.880But he's like, I remember how many women whose hands I've held.
00:08:21.480And it's almost like, if I were a public school teacher teaching sex ed, I would just like clip that and be like, so yeah, maybe you should be careful of who you're engaging with.
00:08:30.960And who you're showing your body to and who you're giving yourself to, because no offense to men, they really don't care and have one track minds and they will remember whose hands they held or who they told they loved for the first time.
00:08:43.960But they're not going to remember you for the hot bikini shot, other than it being a brief moment of like sexual pleasure for them.