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Sleeping in Clothes

Question

Is it permitted to go to sleep wearing clothes?

Answer

Shalom u’vracha 

It is permitted to sleep in clothes. 

However, one should not sleep in shoes, and our Sages said that one who sleeps in shoes experiences a taste of death. 

Answered 6 May 2026 How answers are reviewed
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Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
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