GEN431 Jewish teachers have realized that, though we humans are only one more creature created by God, how are unique likeness to God requires us to hold our bodies in special regard. After all, before the expulsion from the Garden of Eden it was God, no less, who made the first clothes for Adam and Eve [this verse]. The rabbis so prize modesty that they imaginatively find it in the conduct of our “cousins,” the animals.  “The dove is modest in its conduct and graceful in its movements” Song of Songs Rabbah 1:15, 2, and reputedly, “camels are modest [private] about their copulation” Genesis Rabbah 76:7. “Standing around naked in inevitably decreases a person’s dignity” Berachot 2:14 The medieval Roman commentator Yehiel b. Yekutiel agrees: “It is great immodesty in a man to go about naked, even in his own home. He therefore demeans himself by behaving like an animal” Sefer Maalot Hamiddot. So most of us put clothes on even if we don’t expect visitors. BOROJMV 153