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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. Text: Likutey Halakhos, Even HaEzer, Yibum, Halakha 3, Para. 9b-10. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 57.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 9. “Remove your shoes from your feet…” (Shemos/Exodus 3:5). Hashem tells Moshe Rabeynu not to separate himself from the holiness of the Land. The origin of wearing leather shoes after Adam and Chava ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Garments of light vs. garments of leather. Why we look at the distinction between fingernail and skin by the light of the Havdalah candle.
13:43 – PARAGRAPH 10. The connection between not wearing leather shoes on Tisha B’Av and the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash (the Holy Temple in Jerusalem).
25:36 – Sanhedrin 74. In a time of shmad (forced conversion) it’s forbidden to imitate the religious practices of the non-Jews “even concerning a shoelace.”
*29:41 – Ikar chorbon Beish HaMikdash – the essential truth is that the Holy Temple was destroyed because we turned away from Torah authorities. (Clip – Part 1).
*42:16 – We are repaired by means of that which caused us to stumble. Lack of emunas chochomim (faith in true rabbis) is repaired through lowering ourselves by fasting and removing our shoes..
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