Nov 4, 2026 · 46 min · 9 segments
How do you talk about “modesty” without body shame, rulebooks, or misogyny? Rabbi Shira and Hanna take on this thorny and familiar parenting dilemma. They explore the Jewish value of Tzniut with a…
Shira StutmanHost
Hanna RosinHostMorganaGuest
At this point in my life, my husband and I are raising our seven-year-old daughter in a Jewish home.
This has become especially relevant because dun dun dun boys, this is going to be familiar to so many people of my daughter.
While she's only seven, I'm a planner and I'm already thinking about how I want to talk to her about modesty as she gets older.
I've also watched friends with older daughters struggle to explain why they might not want their daughters walking out the door in skirts so short.
If your parenting philosophy isn't simply because the rules say so, what values do you point to instead? When I read about snoot, most of what I find comes from orthodox perspective that focus on specific rules about skirt length, sleeve length, and hair covering.
Those discussions are interesting, but they don't necessarily resonate with how I practice Judaism.
How do liberal or non-Orthodox Jews think about SNUT as a positive value rather than simply a list of clothing rules? Is there a way to teach modesty that honors bodily autonomy, feminism, and self-expression while also encouraging the idea that our bodies and our sexuality don't have to be on public display? How do you help children, especially girls, enter the preteen years, develop an internal sense of dignity, privacy, and self-respect without communicating shame about their bodies? Thank you, Morgana.
And also, I'm going to say for you and I, since we are both parents of daughters, well into the bottom displaying age, you The
At this point in my life, my husband and I are raising our seven-year-old daughter in a Jewish home.
This has become especially relevant because dun dun dun boys, this is going to be familiar to so many people of my daughter.
While she's only seven, I'm a planner and I'm already thinking about how I want to talk to her about modesty as she gets older.
I've also watched friends with older daughters struggle to explain why they might not want their daughters walking out the door in skirts so short.
If your parenting philosophy isn't simply because the rules say so, what values do you point to instead? When I read about snoot, most of what I find comes from orthodox perspective that focus on specific rules about skirt length, sleeve length, and hair covering.
Those discussions are interesting, but they don't necessarily resonate with how I practice Judaism.
How do liberal or non-Orthodox Jews think about SNUT as a positive value rather than simply a list of clothing rules? Is there a way to teach modesty that honors bodily autonomy, feminism, and self-expression while also encouraging the idea that our bodies and our sexuality don't have to be on public display? How do you help children, especially girls, enter the preteen years, develop an internal sense of dignity, privacy, and self-respect without communicating shame about their bodies? Thank you, Morgana.
And also, I'm going to say for you and I, since we are both parents of daughters, well into the bottom displaying age, you The
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