המלך והכלה ירחצו את פניהם מתני' מני ר' חנניא בן תרדיון היא דתניא המלך והכלה לא ירחצו את פניהם רבי חנניא בן תרדיון אומר משום רבי אליעזר המלך והכלה ירחצו את פניהם החיה לא תנעול את הסנדל רבי חנניא בן תרדיון אומר משום ר' אליעזר החיה תנעול את הסנדל
Bathing and anointing can be performed on the preceding day. But sandals, too, may be assumed to have been put on yesterday? It is impossible for sandals to have been put on yesterday, for Samuel said: Let one who would experience a taste of death put on shoes and sleep in them! But it is stated that [the other matters] are permitted [implying] for them at the very outset? - Rather, those things which have nothing to do with their natural growth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As wearing shoes.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And concerning the shoe (sandal), our teachers - God should protect them - explained that a shoe is always of leather. And that is what is forbidden on Yom Kippur, but not of a different type. And the principle of the matter according to some commentators is that anything that is fitting for the matter of release (chalitsah) - meaning to say, that it is of leather - is forbidden on Yom Kippur, and permitted to go out into a public domain with them (wearing them) on Shabbat. But anything that is not fitting for release - such as cork and reeds and palms (see Yoma 78b, that it is a shoe of grasses) and other types of grasses (plants) - are permitted on Yom Kippur, so long as they do not go out with them [to a public domain] in a place without an eruv, as we consider them like a burden (and not a piece of clothing, which is permitted). But from the commentators, there are [also] many honored ones that permit one to go out into the public domain with all of them.
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