I just heard the real reason why we wear non-leather all together! (Probably 5% of people know lol)
It’s because since Adam sinned on Rosh Hashana and after he realized he was “arum” and put on “chagoros” which is LEATHER belts (skirt), so we don’t want to remind ourselves from cheit (kitrug) and we dont wear them. My questions is, why is this done on Yom Kippur & not Rosh Hashana? Maybe bec its harder for 2 days than 1…
I have another pshat. If anyone is maskim let me know. We know from Moshe that Hashem told him to take off his shoes bec he was standing on holy ground. We also find that the Kohanim weren’t allowed to walk around in BH”M with shoes. So there is a thing about tumah from shoes & Yom Kippur were kadosh like a malach. But that only answers shoes all together, how about leather? So maybe I”ll stick to 1st pshat:)