What They Glorify – We Disdain
By a Goy, looking beautiful and engaging in Z’nus is a Kavod. Those boys who go off the Derech and run after their Ta'avos, Rachana Litzlan, it’s because they didn’t do well in Yeshiva, and they got no Kavod and recognition! So in the world of Ta'ava, they got plenty of Kavod, either because of their personalities or their looks; easy Kavod. (In Novardok they said that Redifas HaTa’avos had a base in Kavod).
A gentile woman gets plenty of Kavod for Gashmiyus reasons. But by us: כָל כְבוּדָה בַת מֶלֶךְ פְּנִימָה (Tehillim 45:14) – Tz'niyus is Kavod! It’s Malchus, nobility royalty, Chashivus! And not doing a Bris Mila is considered a: חֶרְפָה disgrace. Shimon and Levi also said: הַכְזוֹנָה יַעֲשֶה אֶת אֲחוֹתֵנוּ (Bereishis 34:31) – is she a lowlife? They were giving a lesson to Anshei (the people of) Shechem, who endorsed and weren’t ashamed of what Shechem did to Dina.
