Talmud zu Esther 4:2

It was stated²⁷⁴Tosephta Berakhot 6:19.: Nobody should enter the Temple Mount in shoes, with dust on his feet, or his coins tied up in his head-scarf, or his money belt on him outside. What is the reason? (Eccl. 4:17) “Watch your feet when you go to God’s house.” Rebbi Yose ben Yehudah says (Esth. 4:2): “He came as far as the king’s gate because nobody may enter the king’s gate in sackcloth.” He said, if it is so for a foul smelling drop²⁷⁵The semen from which the king was conceived., so much more for the gate of the Omnipresent!