Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Avira,

“ n the lashon chazal, men are called tzadikim and women are called tznuos – it is THE ikar for a woman.”

Chazal called Shaul a tzanua so not exactly, but The Rebbe also said tznius is the crown midda for a woman. Of course it’s important, just not something you exclude someone from a community for, any more than say lashon hara which is actually an explicit lav. There is no section of Gemara or anywhere else discussing tznius dress, whereas forbidden speech is.

But like I said, excluding people in general is not our way. It seems to be a great hashkofa to raise adults who are not dan lkaf zechus, and promote a general attitude of sinas yisrael- where you’ll have a child with such an education calling a yid who walks into a store looking different than him a goy, whereas a Lubavitcher kid will say hey there’s a yid.