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By Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
160 pages, Hardcover & Paperback

"Beauty diminishes, but a good name endures."

Everyday, people are bombarded by images from the media that promote stick-thin figures as the ideal, promiscuity, music, movies and books that idealize relationships mirroring our disposable society. World famous fashion models are dying before our eyes, wasting away for the "ideal" form.

In an everyday sense, we see things in the most superficial sense. And, as you will discover, it will deeply affect your life, and your children’s lives.

Sometimes You ARE What You Wear! by Eliyahu Safran emphasizes the value of tzniut, modesty, and challenges us to see more than simply the surface.

Tzniut teaches us to not simply "look" but to "see," to "see with meaning." It teaches us to look upon some aspect of creation and see not just its outer, most superficial qualities, but its inner, more meaningful aspects.

By looking deeper than your most superficial, corporeal self and seeing who you are at your deepest level, you are able to see the person you are capable of being. And that person is the one that God wants you to be, the one who does not do to others what he wouldn’t want done to him.

Rabbi Safran presents the traditional view of modesty in the context of Judaism's unique way of looking at the world. For Judaism seeks an appropriate balance between the physical and the spiritual, denying neither and recognizing that the beauty of God's creative wisdom inhabits both.

It is what is "inside", which has the potential for the greatest value. What is "outside" should reflect that. Your physical appearance should be designed to call attention to your inner worth and nobility, to your good soul. If you can do that, then your reputation will be assured.

Open your eyes and your mind to the compelling insights of Sometimes You ARE What You Wear! and discover the "you" who must shine through to others!