EXOD63 … God, as understood in the Jewish tradition, is in part known and in part hidden. God is made known to human beings through revelation and through divine acts in history, but no human being, even Moses, can comprehend God's essence [this verse, 33:20 – 23] Furthermore, the Mishnah declares that one who probes God's essence beyond what God has chosen to reveal to human beings should not have been born, for, as the Jerusalem Talmud explains, to know more about God than the Holy One chooses to reveal is an affront to His dignity. M. Hagigah 2:1 and J. Hagigah 2:1 (8b). If God is to be a model for us, then, we, like God, must take steps to preserve our own privacy. We, then, out of respect for God's commands as articulated in the biblical passages just cited, [to emulate God's ways; Leviticus 19:2 and Deuteronomy 11:22, 13:5] must also respect the privacy of others. Thus these demands are deeply rooted not only in morality but in Jewish theology.