September 25, 2014 • Page Image 51
…That the prohibition against leather shoes is really a prohibition against comfort — rather than stemming from some ritual prob- lem with leather itself — is dem- onstrated meticulously by Dr. Ari Zivotofsky of Bar-Ilan University in an article featured in Jewish Action magazine in 2011. Zivotofsky cites a wealth of legal writings beginning with the Talmud that address the problem of what type of shoe ought to be worn on Tisha b'Av and Yom Kip...…

















































