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Chayei Adam - K’lal 145 - Laws of Yom Kippur

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]19[ It is forbidden to wear shoes made of leather or even covered in leather.
Some forbid wearing wooden shoes, even if not covered in leather, because they
are also called shoes. It is however permitted to wear [shoes] made of reeds,
straw, or material, because only a shoe made of leather is called a shoe. One
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should be machmir and avoid wearing shoes even to avoid mud or rain or if he
finds himself among non-Jews, because some hold all of the afflictions [of Yom
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Kippur] are forbidden by the Torah. If it is extremely difficult for him to walk
through the mud, he should walk [wearing his shoes] until the entrance of the
shul and remove them there, carrying them inside and hiding them away inside

the shul, or at least he should wear a shoe without a heel.

]20[ Any ill person, even if not dangerously ill, or someone who has a wound on
their foot, or a woman within thirty days after childbirth, may wear shoes, and
certainly, if there is any danger involved, it is permitted. 37

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34. The mishna (Yoma 73b) lists wearing Many rishonim understand that only a shoe
shoes as one of the five inuyim which are made of leather is forbidden, or if it is made of
forbidden on Yom Kippur. The gemara (Yoma wood and covered in leather. Anything else is
70b) reports how some of the Chachamim permitted. (Rif, Rosh, Tur, Shulchan Aruch); (2)
wore shoes made of cork or straw on Yom Others (Rashi, Rabeinu Yeruchem, Riaz) explain
Kippur, which indicates that not all shoes are that in addition to leather, a shoe made out of
the same. Although the Bach understands that wood is also considered a shoe and it is
these shoes were extremely inferior and therefore forbidden to wear any wooden shoe
therefore advocates going completely on Yom Kippur; (3) Still, others forbid wearing
barefoot, most disagree and permit some sort a shoe made of any material, although one
of footwear. Elsewhere (Shabbos 66b) the may wrap his feet in material to protect it.
gemara discusses the status of an amputee’s (Baal HaMaor, Panim Meiros, Shaarei Teshuva,
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wooden leg which some consider it to be his Chasam Sofer). Although the prevalent
shoe, which would seem to indicate otherwise. custom is to permit wearing shoes not made
(This has practical applications to several of leather, many poskim recommend wearing
halachos - Shabbos, entering the Beis footwear which is not normally worn as a shoe
HaMikdash, chalitza, as well as Yom Kippur, during the rest of the year, and avoid synthetic
but is beyond the scope of the point we are leathers. It is worth noting that many
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addressing here.) There are three main gedolim and tzadikim over the generations
approaches in the rishonim and poskim: (1) have conducted themselves stringently and

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