Question:
Is it allowed to leave a shoe upside down ?? need to turn the shoe??
Answer:
The main law and custom
What he asked: “Is it allowed to leave a shoe upside down?”
From the side of the Halacha, the answer is that it is allowed.
But on the part of the ‘custom’, many of the Spharadic jews avoid this, and although they did not find an explicit source for it in all the books of the Sages and in the writings of our first and last great sages, many tried in the books of the last generation to give it many reasons.
But after all, it must be remembered that this is not even Jewish’s ‘custom’, it only a custom that the holders of it – may have good reasons and intentions.
This means that whoever leaves a shoe upside down is not considered to be committing a crime, because there is no prohibition. Nor did he abolish the jewish ‘custom’.
And among Ashkenazic jews they have never even heard of such custom.
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