[Sca-cooks] Re: [Bright Hills] RE: things they dont explain aboutPennsic

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> There is not a prohibition against wearing wool and linen clothing
> together.  It is a prohibition against wearing a wool-linen fabric blend
> (Shatnez).
>
> http://www.beingjewish.com/mitzvos/shatnez.html

Read in more detail. If the wool and linen are fully attached, they may not
be worn, but they can be velcroed or buttoned together. Also, they may be
worn together, but only if either garment can be removed without removing
the other, so, say, a linen shirt and woolen pants might be worn together,
but not a woolen jacket over a linen shirt. Thus, the idea of lining a
woolen jacket with silk to wear over a linen shirt wouldn't work, as I read
it.

There's also something about walking or sitting on carpets or upholstery
that are made of the mix- if it isn't fuzzy, it's fine, but if it is fuzzy,
it's forbidden, since the mixture of fibers may adhere to the clothing
you're wearing, and thus become shatnez thereby. Didn't explain what you
were to do if wearing linen ob a woolen fuzzy carpet, but I suspect that
might be one of those things that's part of determining how observany one
is...

You know, it's no wonder so many lawyers are Jewish- they get fed law with
their mother's milk ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

> > The Torah (Deuteronomy 22:11) is rather clear that shatnez refers
> > specifically and only to wool and linen. Wool and linen attached to each
> > other by any means is forbidden. It does not matter whether they are
> > sewn together, spun, twisted, glued, or any method of attaching
> > whatsoever.  Any method of combining wool and linen is forbidden. Wool
> > that has linen thread through it, linen that has woolen thread through
> > it, wool and linen fabric sewn together by silk (or any type of thread),
> > wool or linen held together by a needle or pin - all these are
> > forbidden. However, it is permitted to wear a linen garment over a
> > woolen garment, or vice versa, since they are not attached to each
> > other.
> >
> > The great Rabbinic Commentator Rashi says (on Genesis 26:5), quoting the
> > Midrash, that the Law of shatnez is a chok, a decree that the King has
> > passed for His subjects, for which we do not know the reason. A great
> > many of the Commandments in the Torah are of that sort. We do not know
> > precisely why pork is forbidden, for example. We do not understand how
> > the Purification by means of a red heifer works.
>
> --
> --Sfi Mordehai ben Yosef Yitzhak, Aka Matthew G. Saroff