shamefacedness

Great shame. Humiliation of a person in public. Disgrace. Or: shyness and modesty.

("All Day My Shame Is Before Me and the Shame of My Face Has Covered Me' - Psalms 44:16. And Likewise: 'Others Say: Any Person Who Is Shy Is Not Quick to Sin, and One Who Has No Shame of Face - Know That His Ancestors Did Not Stand at Mount Sinai' - Nedarim 20a. And Likewise: 'And Now Leave Me - Rabbi Eleazar Said, If Not for a Written Verse It Would Not Be Possible to Say It. It Teaches That Moses Grasped the Holy One, Blessed Be He, Like a Man Who Grabs His Friend by His Garment and Said Before Him: Master of the Universe, I Will Not Let You Go Until You Forgive and Pardon Them... And Not Only That, I Have Shame of Face Before My Ancestors, Now They Will Say: Look at a Leader Who Stood Up for Himself and Did Not Ask for Mercy for Them' - Yalkut Shimoni, Torah, Parashat Ki Tisa, Remez 672. And Likewise: 'And Shame of Face Is Between Boldness and Shyness' - Maimonides/ Introduction to the Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter Four, 326. And Likewise: 'To You, O Lord, Belongs Righteousness, and to Us, Shame of Face' - Selichot Prayer. And Likewise: 'And a Star Blazed with Excitement and Shame of Face' - Y.L. Peretz/ To the Head of a Dying Man, p. 9. And Likewise: 'She Clung to the Window Sills and Wept, to the Shame of Brakha's Face, Like a Little Girl' - Devora Baron/ Exiles, p. 117. And Likewise: 'And They Come and Go/ And Again the Grooms Come/ And At Their End a Heavy Heart/ And Shame of Face' - H.N. Bialik/ To Whom a Good Stone. And Likewise: 'Oh, to the Shame of Face, When the First Sunbeam/ Awoke Us Laughing with the Teeth of the Hoe' - Rachel/ On the Threshing Floor.")

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