Y Yevamos 67

The Malbim there in Kisetsi discusses how shoes somehow symbolize the power of Adam to... have authority and be different, so to speak, than all the other creations of the world.

He quotes from the fact that we take off our shoes to connect to Mokomos of Kedusha.

That shows that we have the ability to choose.

That's what the shoe symbolizes, that the animals don't wear shoes, but we wear shoes.

He says the difference between man and beast is not...

the ability to speak, meaning just to make sounds, because birds also make sounds, and not da'as, because this instinct that animals have.

But the difference is seichel, seichel and ratzon, and the ability to choose.

And he could go against his natural, his nature.

We could go against what naturally would be pulling us in the world.

And He quotes the Pesukim when we're told to connect with Kedusha, and we choose to connect with Kedusha in the Mekomas HaKadoshim, like the Kohen of the Beis Hamikdash, like Moshe and Yeshua, when they spoke to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, they take off their shoes.

So here, the symbolism is when the Yavam, or Yavama, when the Yavam is deciding not to do the Ratzan Hashem, the Ratzan HaTorah is to do Yivam, right? That's the Lachar Chila, as we have said.

And that's really... against the nature of the Torah, so to speak, he says.

And the Torah goes out of its way to overcome its nature, so to speak, to overcome the natural system, to be able to allow Yibam.

And he, this man, is choosing not to, so someone else takes off his shoes.

Kind of show that he is not using his power of Bechira in the proper way.

And he continues down that path in terms of, the understanding and the symbolism.

So it's the point is to have somebody else take off the shoes.

Okay.