## Shekel HaKodesh, On Modesty and Shame

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תמים ובוש פנים / נודע בטוב טעמו,
זהו אשר יבוש / בינו לבין עצמו.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
The innocent and shamefaced ones are known by their demeanour; they are such as have a sense of shame even when none other is near.


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חוס עלי יקר שכלך ותורתך, פן יעלה יצרך ויעציבך,
תקן אסמיך והון אוצרך / נדבתך לתת וחיובך.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Have consideration for the worth of thy judgment and thy learning, lest thy conscience rise and reproach thee. Carefully arrange thy stores and the abundance of thy treasure, so that thou mayest cheerfully dispense thy dues, even thy gifts.


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צניעות האנוש זהו / בענותו וח(ו)כמתו,
ולשמור דת וחק מוסר / והסדר במחייתו,
וכל פגע וכל מקרה / בעת בואו סבול אותו.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Man's modesty may be seen in the union of meekness and knowledge, in his observance of the Law and the moral precept, in his methods of living, and in the patient endurance of the events and accidents that befall him in life.


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צניעות איש ומיטב מפעלותיו, להתנהג ימי חייו כראוי,
ושלא יעשה דבר בסתר, אשר יבוש עשות אותו בגלוי.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
It is the part of the modest man, who shapeth his actions well, to conduct himself through life as is meet, never to do aught in secret that he would blush to do openly.


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צניעות איש בהרחק העבירות בכל עת יהיו מדיו לבנים,
ויטרח לאשר יוליך בידו לצידה ואשר ינחיל לבנים.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Man's modesty may be said to consist of his keeping aloof from sinfulness, so that at all times his garments be white, he labouring to provide of that which cometh into his hand for his own wants, and to bequeath thereof unto his children.


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צניעות בארבעה חלקים, להקביל את פני אוהב ולדבקה באהבתו,
והשלים חפציו כל זמנים כפי כוחך והשתעשע תמיד בכל עת בצדקתו.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Modesty may take four forms:—That of greeting a friend in sincerity, that of attaching him in affection, that of fulfilling his wish at all times according to one's power, and that of being ever delighted to deal charitably by him.


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הבושת מאד מדה חמודה היא, נראית כל עת על פני נדיב,
אכן חליפתה להכאיב (עת) את נפש בעליה וגם להאדיב.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Modesty is a quality much to be desired; it may always be discerned on the face of him with liberal heart; whereas its opposite is such as to cause pain and sorrow to the heart of its possessor.


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אדם אשר עוטה / מעל בושת אמת
יתעלמו מומיו / ויסתתרו,
אך אם יהי פשוטו / אזי יתבררו,
על עין בני אדם / ואז יזכרו.
כל רק ומתלוצץ / ואיש לב נענה,
יתקבצו אליו / ויתחברו.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
As for the man who putteth on the garment of modesty, his blemishes will, in truth, be covered up and concealed; but he who doth divest himself thereof will render those defects clear to the eye of man, so that they be called to mind; nay, more, such a one will gather around him as his associates none but the worthless scoffer and the low fellow.


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אחיות שתים אמונה ובושת, והמה מעידות באשה רעותה,
בכל עת דברות כגלדי בצלים, ואחת בכל עת תחבק חברותה.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Faithfulness and Modesty are two sisters, one bearing witness to the other; at all times joined, as the onion's peel, one ever embracing the other.


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התבוששה תמיד בהצנע ימי חלדך ודרך תם חזה,
יקרו חרזיו לאנוש ישב ותם למאד ומספרם אתה ח ז ה.

**Shekel Hakodesh, trans. Hermann Gollancz, London 1919:**
Conduct thyself always with Modesty and Shame in passing through the years of thy pilgrimage here, and *see thou*¹"=20, the number of lines in this section.] the upright way.

footnotes:
¹ ["See thou