Comments on: Appreciating the P’sak of Rav Elyashiv, sh”lita, by Rabbi Asher Lopatin

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[...] with unimaginable misery. I could dwell on it, put myself in the kid’s parents’ shoes (uncomfortable shoes, no doubt), and generally freak myself (and probably my wife and kid) out. Instead, I’ll find every [...]

By: Gedalia Walls

Gedalia Walls — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:49:11 +0000

To follow along the lines of the previous post, I asked my Rosh Yeshiva why the gemara mentions ne’a'layim shel sha’am (shoes made from jute) as the example of permitted foot wear on YK in distinction to leather. He mentioned the Yerushalmi custom to only wear very thin shoes or socks in accordance with this reading of the gemara. So the psak is really in consonance with local custom, which is often the most defining feature of chareidi psak and could be better applied in Morethodox context to prevent MO poskim from changing local custom based on their own chiddushim.

By: moshe shoshan

moshe shoshan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:53:51 +0000

R Lopatin,

I think you are missing the halachic context of RYSE’s psak. As i argued on Hirhurim, this has nothing to do with the “spirit” of the law or R. Elyashiv’s gut feeling. R. Elyashiv simply thinks that one should be choshesh for the Aruch Hashulchan, who in turn understands Rashi, R. Tam and Rashi as all holding that the prohibition against wearing “shoes” on YK is not restricted to leather shoes but to any shoes that protect ones’ feet from “the hardness of the ground”.