B"H
Many Rabbis, including the litvishe spiritual leader Rabbi Eliyashiv, support the opinion that Crocs should not be worn on Yom Kippur, as they are too comfortable.
Tomorrow (Sunday night) this year's Yom Kippur is starting and the Halacha is teaching us not to wear leather shoes. Instead those Jews keeping Yom Kippur wear sneakers (made from plastic or artificial leather), or all kinds of plastic shoes. For the past few years, Crocs have become extremely popular in Israel as well and religious Jews love to wear them on Tisha Be'Av and Yom Kippur. Nevertheless, there is a halachic question mark behind Crocs, as they are comfortable shoes and we should be neither comfortable on Tisha Be'Av nor on Yom Kippur.
As the original Crocs are very expensive in Israel (200 Shekels = approx. 50 Dollar), the country found a cheap solution: Faked Crocs only cost 20 Shekels (approx. 5 Dollar) and are sold everywhere. And as they are cheap and almost as good as the original ones, the fakes have become very popular as well.
The question is: Are the faked Crocs also forbidden on Yom Kippur or only the original ones ?
Who told u they are almost as good?
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteSeveral people. Especially at work.
The real Crocs would only be a little spongier.
chabad rabonim say its OK to wear crocks on Yom Kipur .........http://frumnewsspot.blogspot.com/2009/09/rabbonim-it-is-ok-to-wear-crocs-on-yom.html
ReplyDeleteI find them quite uncomfortable and their hideous ugliness borders on the bizarre! I couldn't imagine myself wearing those disfigured caricatures of footwear even on Purim!
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteNever mind the ugliness: I love them, even the fakes. And, by the way, I saw plenty of religious people wearing them on Yom Kippur !