The Magical Ingredient

[debka_notion]

I think I've found the magical ingredient for generating tons of comments on LJ, at least among my friend- circle, and it is very simple-

Talk about head-covering and/or ritual-wear and gender.

I guess people with those interests tend to congregate.

I think other halakhic concerns might get close- so, here's one I need to do some research into- what has the status of a shoe, and the acceptability going barefoot during (davening on) Yom Kippur.

Comments

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was that worthy ot tons of comments - I just felt like blowing off a bit of steam at tallis-lady.

I had a pair of shoes stashed under my chair for wearing during the Standing 18 and whilst reading Torah, and collected many, many weird looks the rest of the time. Hur.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Most of the comments don't have all that much to do with your post, really. It's just that a number of people we both know (myself included) have a tendency to go off on that discussion or variants thereof at the slightest provocation. It's happened on some of my posts before too. And well- you can blame part of my contributions to being in a very quiet library and needing to be too aware of my surroundings to focus on my gemara homework very consistently...

I went barefoot most of the time- other than that, I had flip-flops, which I found at Kol Nidre really did nasty things to my knees when I just stood in them. But then a friend brought up the inevitable "Aaah, it'll look like you're in mourning" issue, which I had thought wasn't an issue on YK, but I figured investigating public opinion here wouldn't hurt..

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

when i was in mourning i wore the same thing i wear on yom kippur and tish‘a b’av — [non-leather, of course] sandals with socks.

normally, i wear sandals without socks. socks go with other types of shoes, so it shows that the sandals are meant in place of some other type.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Um, most of the rules of YK (or any hard-core fast day) overlap with those of mourning: No shoes, no bathing, no anointing, no sex. That's four out of five.