Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 203:8

ומנעל לכתחלה תנאי היא דתניא א"ר יוסי פעם אחת הלכתי לנציבין מצאתי זקן אחד אמרתי לו כלום אתה בקי בר' יהודה בן בתירא אמר לי הן ועל שולחני הוא תדיר כלום ראית שחלץ ביבמה

[On the question of] using a foot-covering shoe<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For halizah. ');">¹⁵</span> ab initio Tannaim differ. For it was taught: R. Jose<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or 'Simeon'. V. Tosef. Yeb. XII. ');">¹⁶</span> related, 'I once went to Nesibis where I met an old man whom I asked, "Are you perchance acquainted with R. Judah b. Bathyra?" and he replied, "Yes; and he in fact always sits at my table". "Have you ever seen him arranging a <i>halizah</i> ceremony for a sister-in-law?" [I asked]. "I saw him arranging <i>halizah</i> ceremonies many a time", he replied. "With a foot-covering shoe [I asked] or with a sandal?" — "May <i>halizah</i> be performed", he asked me' "with a foot-covering shoe?" I<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cut. edd. insert in parenthesis: 'And the Torah said his shoe [H] but not his foot-covering shoe [H] [This is deleted by Rashi since the term [H] is post-Biblical, occurring nowhere in the Bible in the sense of shoe. v. Rashi]. ');">¹⁷</span>

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