October 12, 2024
On the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and atonement, celebrants are supposed to avoid wearing leather shoes. One explanation suggests that leather shoes symbolize sin, because Adam and Eve wore animal skins after expulsion from Eden.
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