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What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« on: October 06, 2011, 10:05:59 PM »
What and why?

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 10:11:56 PM »
Keens. Cuz they are comfortable and not leather... and all I've got.
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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2011, 10:14:53 PM »
Crocs- You apikores

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2011, 10:15:40 PM »
crocs. comfortable, slip on and off easy and gives the foot room to breath (holes),
and not leather obviously

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2011, 10:24:21 PM »
Also crocs!!

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2011, 10:27:10 PM »
Crocs
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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2011, 10:27:59 PM »
Apparently R' Elyashiv said its better not to wear crocs because of the comfort.
Anyone have a source?

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2011, 10:29:12 PM »
Apparently R' Elyashiv said its better not to wear crocs because of the comfort.
Anyone have a source?

Because of the comfort? Is that why he said not to. I never heard that part. Hmm...

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2011, 10:31:54 PM »
Because of the comfort? Is that why he said not to. I never heard that part. Hmm...
That's what I heard, hence looking for a source.
What else could it be?

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2011, 10:33:34 PM »
That's what I heard, hence looking for a source.
What else could it be?

Guess you're right.. http://matzav.com/rav-elyashiv-crocs-forbidden-on-yom-kippur
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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2011, 10:34:42 PM »
Wait.... what? I thought it's the leather that it's the issue. I mean, it's Yom Kippur, not Tisha B'av. We're not sitting on stone cold floors here.

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2011, 10:35:32 PM »
That's what I heard, hence looking for a source.
What else could it be?

This was on snopes years ago.

Seriously, why isn't there a frum snopes to debunk stuff like this

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2011, 10:46:03 PM »
Because of the comfort? Is that why he said not to. I never heard that part. Hmm...
i heard that the reason was that since everyone wore them regularly  , its considered a shoe.

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2011, 12:28:27 AM »
In order to understand recursion, you first need to understand recursion.

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2011, 12:42:24 AM »
My take on it is, that basically he feels that it's better not to wear any comfortable shoes. So they came to him and said there's these really comfortable year round slippers called crocs and he said it's assur. Any non-leather shoes that are comfortable would fall into the same category. I just read the article linked in the post before and I see them saying the same sevara.  So maybe instead of all the news sites posting this article every year saying R' Elyashiv banned crocs on Yom Kippur,  they should be more accurate and say R' Elyashiv banned all comfotable shoes on Yom Kippur!!!

Point is, there's no difference between crocs and what all the other (non croc) people are wearing!!

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2011, 01:07:39 AM »
Yup, New Balance leather-free sneakers are far more comfortable/supportive than Crocs.
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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2011, 01:11:29 AM »
What shoes are UNcomfortable?

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2011, 01:13:12 AM »
What shoes are UNcomfortable?
Plenty, just go into payless and see for yourself.
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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2011, 01:16:55 AM »
Plenty, just go into payless and see for yourself.
+1. get ready for a blister or 2 as well.

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Re: What Footwear Do You Wear On Yom Kippur?
« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2011, 02:13:31 AM »
Plenty, just go into payless and see for yourself.

+1 they're also really cr@ppy, and your feet start hurting after standing/walking for too long, perfect for yom kippur...
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