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Please read this teshuva — and when done let me know whether anyone still thinks the Shevet HaLevi would be happy to disseminate a photo of his wife – or any other woman, for that matter:
Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (Shevet HaLevi 4:1.2):
Question: Concerning the topic of tznius (modesty) regarding the fact that women learn and regularly drive cars.
Answer: From experience I learned that this is something that is proper to clearly forbid. That is because learning to drive has already caused and continues to cause pritzus (immodesty) and this is diametrically opposite to the Jewish value that the honor of the Jewish woman (princess) is to remain inside (Tehillim 45:14). Similarly the driving itself is absolutely the opposite of the Jewish value that the honor of the Jewish woman (princess) is to remain inside (Tehilim 45:14).The woman who exposes herself through driving in the market and streets before the eyes of everyone is actively and passively causing others to sin. “And it is not the normal way of a woman to be riding” (Pesachim 3a-b). And even though the reality of a riding on an animal is not totally equivalent to our topic of driving a car – nevertheless it is not the normal way of a woman and the two are similar in many ways that it difficult to explain in writing.