Additional reason for putting on and tying shoes in a particular order?

Question

As discussed in the answers to the question Why does Halacha say to tie your shoes in a specific order?, the primary reason for doing so has to do with balancing preferences for privileging both left and right. I recall reading somewhere that it was also the reverse order in which shoes are removed from a corpse, and the order we use symbolically differentiates the living from the dead. But I can neither remember where I might have read this, nor find any reference to it. Is there any basis to this connection?

(This is my first post on Mi Yodeya, so I apologize if this question is ill-formed or improperly-placed)

Answer 1

This is an interesting question and is mentioned in Talmud (but I cannot remember the exact source).

You give "honour" to the right in which order you put the shoes on. This is partly derived from the order of the Temple service, and also we partly know from Jacob's blessing to Ephraim and Menashe that there is a special honour to the "right".

However we tie the left shoe first. Why? Actually it derives from the fact that Tefillin are worn on the left arm, and therefore when we "tie" we give honour to the left.

There is a particular link between the shoe-lace and the Tefillin from the recent parsha of Lech-Lecha when Avraham rejects the King of Sodom's offer of taking spoils of war and says he will not even take a thread or a shoe-lace.

The thread is likened to the Tallis which has the special Techeiles thread. The shoe-lace is likened to the mitzvah of Tefillin, and these mitzvot were a "special reward".

Thus we tie the left shoe first.

(This applies, presumably, only to someone who is right-handed).