Getting on one knee is an Issur D’oraisa of Chukas Akum.
I didn’t know that. I’ll have to find a new way to tie my shoes, I suppose.
Interesting story: Eeees and I had been dating for a while, but neither of us were yet ready to get married. Nonetheless, one day, I was in her kitchen and she had her back to me. I said to her “Eeees, I need to ask you something.” At the same time, I had bent down (and got down on one knee) to tie my shoes. She thought I was going to propose at that moment, but the question I intended to ask was completely unrelated (I knew we weren’t ready to get married yet).
We still like to joke about that many years later. When I did actually propose, it was not on one knee.
The Wolf