DEUT604 Part of life's goal of the Jew is to imitate God, as it says in [this verse and Deuteronomy 28:9] and is explained in the Talmud (Sotah 14a). One of the qualities of God is His hiddenness. Although man is commanded to attempt to know God (Maimonides, Hilchot Yesodei Hatorah 1:1 and 1:10), there remains a part of God unknowable to man.... It is the same with man. Although we think we can know someone and someone can know us, there should be a part of each person that remains private and unknowable. Part of Jewish modesty, then, informs us that even to our closest friend or spouse, there must remain some things inside that are private and known only to us. As King David says about God (Psalms 91:1), that He sits on high shrouded in secret and "in the shade," so, too, there must be part of each person that remains forever secret and unknowable. King Solomon in Proverbs suggests that God's honor and glory is achieved through this secretiveness (Proverbs 25:2). Man, too, achieves some dignity and honor by keeping some part of his personality secret in private. This, too, is an aspect of Jewish modesty. Thus, the hiddenness of Jewish modesty consists of three different characteristics: holiness, humility, and privacy. Through these characteristics, demonstrated in all aspects of life, the Jew achieves a general level of modesty that impacts upon his or her daily life and is displayed in all the actions and thoughts of a person.