במדבר י״ג:ב׳
“Send agents to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one participant from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.”
בראשית מ״ב:ט׳
Recalling the dreams that he had dreamed about them, Joseph said to them, “You are spies, you have come to see the land in its nakedness.”
שולחן ערוך, אורח חיים ע״ה:א׳
To Be Careful of Exposed Hair and the Voice of a Woman at the Time of the Recitation of the Sh'ma and So Not to Recite It in Front of the Nakedness - Containing 6 S'ifimIf a handbreadth is uncovered on a woman in a place [on her body] where the practice (lit. way) is to cover it, even if it his wife, then it is forbidden to recite the Recitation of the Sh'ma in front of her. Rem"a: And there are those who say that this is specifically with respect to his wife, but with another woman even less than a handbreadth is [considered] nakedness (Hagahot Maimoni Chapter 3). And it seems from the words of the Rosh that a handbreadth on a woman is [considered] nakedness even [in regards] to another woman, except that to herself she is able to recite [the Recitation of the Sh'ma] even though she is naked like was said earlier in Siman 74.
ברכות כ״ד א:ט״ז
Rather, it is referring even to his wife, with regard to the recitation of Shema. One may not recite Shema before an exposed handbreadth of his wife.
ביאור הלכה ע״ה:א׳:א׳
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