Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Arso,

“ I don’t think so. That would imply that all the other gedolei olam were only tznius when they were in company, and that is being motzi shem ra on all of them. I believe Shaul and Kimchis were singled out because they went above the letter of the law.”

What I’ve learned, and am implying is that a true sense of tznius is am exactly that, a sense of yiras shomayim, and you know it most when it’s kept even in the bathroom, even in the desert, and even when no one is home. Obviously, kimchis dressed 💯 tznius and so did Shaul. Those were outcomes though, not the definition.

Micha says הצנע לכת עם אלוקיך, not one specific act, but a mode of life of being aware of Hashem’s presence at all times (which will obviously manifest publicly too).