Looking in the mirror with the blessing of the Creator
Is it appropriate to look at one’s own beauty in the mirror with the blessing of the Creator, just as it is appropriate to see and smell the fruit before the Creator of the fruit of the tree, etc.? And to draw from the recognition motivation to cultivate the body? That aesthetics are like a good peel of a fruit.
Hillel would have praised the body for being in the image. But it seems to me that Rabbi Simai would not have looked at the human form on the king’s coin.
Thank you very much!
Asher Yaser is not a blessing for beauty but for complexity and purposefulness (that all the holes are coordinated and intended for the proper functioning of the body). Therefore, I see no reason to look in the mirror before the blessing. You know the complexity more from life and studying biology than from the mirror.
As a general rule, the law prohibits a man from looking in a mirror from a woman’s point of view. It is true that nowadays it is customary to be lenient in this regard, and the man has someone to rely on.
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