Walking barefoot to the House of God: My childhood Slichot prayers in Iraq
I was six years old then, practically a man in the Jewish tradition, yet my eyes were still half-shut, my head in dreamland.
‘WE MUST walk barefoot to the Slichot prayers as an expression of mourning for the destruction of our Temple in Jerusalem many, many years earlier. And if we step on gravel or shards and hurt the soles of our feet, then our pain will count toward our suffering for the destruction of the Temple.’(photo credit: REUTERS)ByAVRAHAM SHAMA