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# Women should also tie the left shoe first. <ref> Laws of Daily Living by Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen page 52 </ref>
# Women should also tie the left shoe first. <ref> Laws of Daily Living by Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen page 52 </ref>
# One should remove one's left shoe before one's right shoe. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 2:5. </ref>
# One should remove one's left shoe before one's right shoe. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 2:5. </ref>
# In places where it is normal to wear shoes one shouldn't go barefoot.<ref>Rama 2:6 writes that a person should make sure to wear shoes. It is based on the Gemara Shabbat 129a and Gemara Pesachim 112a which say that a person should sell his property to get shoes. Mishna Brurah 2:14 adds that in the Arab countries where it is common to walk around barefoot it is permitted.</ref> Some say that one shouldn't walk barefoot because of negative spirits of the ground.<ref>[http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=257&pgnum=7 Maaseh Avraham OC 4] quotes the Chesed Lavraham who says that one shouldn't walk without shoes because there's ruach raah on the ground connected to the snake of Gan Eden. He concludes that it doesn't apply to Israel when it is ruled by the Jews since there's no ruach raah there.</ref>
# In places where it is normal to wear shoes one shouldn't go barefoot.<ref>The Gemara Shabbat 129a and Gemara Pesachim 112a states that a person should sell his property to get shoes. Rashi Shabbat 129a s.v. veyikach explains that there's nothing more disgraceful that walking around barefoot. Rama 2:6 codifies this halacha that a person should make sure to wear shoes. Eliya Rabba 2:5 and Mishna Brurah 2:14 adds that in the Arab countries where it is common to walk around barefoot it is permitted.</ref> Some say that one shouldn't walk barefoot because of negative spirits of the ground.<ref>[http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=257&pgnum=7 Maaseh Avraham OC 4] quotes the Chesed Lavraham who says that one shouldn't walk without shoes because there's ruach raah on the ground connected to the snake of Gan Eden. He concludes that it doesn't apply to Israel when it is ruled by the Jews since there's no ruach raah there.</ref>


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