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The halizah shoe ceremony
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Description: Judaism
According to Biblical law, when a man dies and leaves his wife childless, it is the duty of his brother to marry his widow to perpetuate the family line. If the brother declines to marry his sister-in-law, the halizah ceremony is performed. The halizah shoe,
which is the property of the community, is placed on the man's foot; in front of witnesses, the widow
removes it in order te release her brother-in-law of his obi
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century, P84.286
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