Commentary for Yoma 155:3

(תינח יום הכפורים דליכא מנעל) שבת דאיכא מנעל מאי אמר נחמיה חתניה דבי נשיאה אנא חזיתיה לרבי אמי ורבי אסי דמטו עורקומא דמיא ועברוה דרך מלבוש

But what about the Sabbath on which sandals are worn?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Some commentators, among them Rashi, omit the bracketed portion. The question taken up again is: Whether, as apart from the prohibition to wear shoes, which applies on the Day of Atonement as a form of affliction, on a Sabbath such crossing would be permissible, since the possibility of their falling off, and being carried, should involve a preventive prohibition of such crossing. They might slide off easily, and thus lead the wearer to carrying them.');">⁴</span> - R'Nehemiah, the son-in-law of the Prince,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Perhaps R. Judah II.');">⁵</span> said: I saw R'Ammi and R'Assi who reached a pool of water and crossed it dressed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., with their feet dressed in shoes.');">⁶</span>

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