Modesty, and Forbidden Sights

Women and hair-coverings

Rules of sexual intercourse

General issues in Clothing and Grooming

Bathroom manners

Losing the ketubah for non-tzanua activity

On the importance of general modesty: Succah 49b

On the importance of performing all Mitzvot in secret: Makkot 24a

The Jews are considered to be "Kedoshim [Holy]," in that they are Modest: Shabbat 86a; Niddah 17a

Those who follow the words of the Sages are called "Tzanua [modest]": Niddah 12a

The true honor of a princess is internal: Gittin 12a

Rabban Gamliel on the importance of Modesty: Berachot 8b

Tamar's modesty merited descendants who were Kings and Prophets: Megillah 10b; Sotah 10b

Rachel's humble protection of Leah when she took Rachel's place and married Yaakov, was rewarded by having King Saul as her descendant: Megillah 13b

King Saul's modesty, in hiding his new status as King, was rewarded by having Esther as his descendant: Megillah 13b

The modesty of Kimchit in the way she covered her hair, and the reward she received of having her sons become kohen gadol: Yoma 47a

Rabbi Akiva said that one shouldn't enter any house, including one's own, suddenly: Pesachim 112a

Riding one's horse in the city, instead of leading it: Bava Metzia 9b

Avoiding doing too much in public view: Pesachim 113a

Using a new cloth each time a woman checks for menstrual blood for sexual relations: Niddah 12a

The number of cloths women use to check for menstrual blood: Niddah 14a

Keeping one's Torah knowledge secret: Succah 49b

[Not] Performing generous acts in public: Succah 49b; Moed Katan 16b

Being secretive about one's assistance in funding a wedding or aiding in burial: Succah 49b

Having a divider between groups of men and women: Succah 51b-52a

Preventing too much intergender socialization, to prevent adultery: Eruvin 53b; Ketuvot 72a; Nedarim 20a

Prohibitions against observing or staring at women or certain sections of their body: Nedarim 20a

For males to Sleep "Perakdan" [generally assumed to mean Supine]: Berachot 13b

For males to avoid looking below their belt: Shabbat 118b

Flogging for a groom who sleeps/stays in his in-laws' house: Kiddushin 12b

Keeping the area below the belt covered, when changing clothing: Shabbat 118b

How much skin exposure is considered "ervah": Berachot 24a

Exposing arms: Ketuvot 72b

Differentiating between "ervah" of a Jew and of a Nochri, or not: Berachot 25b

A man ought not gaze at a woman's small finger: Berachot 24a

A man exchanging money with a woman in such a way that he will end up gazing closely at her hand: Eruvin 18b

Whether the buttocks are considered "ervah": Berachot 24a

Whether public hair is considered "ervah": Berachot 24a

Whether the 'shok' part of the leg is considered "ervah": Berachot 24a

Spinning thread in public, in a lewd way: Ketuvot 72a, 72b

Married women joking with young men: Ketuvot 72b

Having a yeshiva student stay in the home of a female hostess: Bava Metzia 71a

At what age children should not be seen by their parents unclothed: Berachot 24a

Having a widow keep a dog: Bava Metzia 71a [and see Tosafot "Lo"]

Men sitting near the mikvah as women enter to immerse: Berachot 20a

Privacy about knowing which night a woman is immersing: Berachot 24a

Looking at a Bride during her first week of marriage: Ketuvot 17a

For males to walk behind females: Eruvin 18b

Better for a man to walk behind a lion than behind a woman; better behind a woman than behind an idol: Eruvin 18b

A man who walks behind a (Rashi - married) woman in crossing a body of water loses his share in the next world: Eruvin 18b

Bathing brothers, father and son, father-in-law and son-in-law, step-father and step-son, brothers-in-law, Rebbe and student, together: Pesachim 51a

Sitting on the bed of a non-Jewish woman: Berachot 8b; Pesachim 112b

Modesty of a wife in front of her husband: Shabbat 140b

Modesty of husband and wife in requesting sexual relations: Eruvin 100b

Standing unclothed before a light: Pesachim 112b

Keeping a separation between the heart and the lower genitalia: Berachot 24b-25a

A Torah Scholar ought to lie if asked about his sexual habits: Bava Metzia 23b

Giving clothing to one's host to launder: Shabbat 140b

Not watching women come up from the laundry: Makkot 24a

For a woman to own a male eved ivri or eved kenaani: Bava Metzia 71a

One should not sleep in the same room as a husband and wife, even if the wife is menstruant: Eruvin 63b

Relating the laws of modest dress to the sin in the Garden of Eden: Eruvin 100b

What Rav Ada bar Ahavah did when he thought he saw a Jewish woman wearing an immodest garment in public: Berachot 20a

Speaking about sexual matters in ways that others can hear: Ketuvot 72a, 72b

Being audible to others during sexual relations: Ketuvot 72a, 72b

Rabbah bar bar Chanah reported how he was walking behind Rav Ukva in the marketplace, when a woman who was spinning thread in a lewd way threw down her thread and then asked Rabbah bar bar Chanah, "Young man, give me my thread," and Rav Ukva criticized her non-tzanua conduct: Ketuvot 72b



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