Wool and Linen = Shatnez
A practical guide to keeping your clothes kosher.
Certain things go together naturally, like peas and carrots. And certain things don’t, like toothpaste and orange juice.
The Torah teaches about the power of combinations and warns against mixing the wrong things together. One of these is the prohibition against wearing a mixture of wool and linen in the same piece of clothing, as it is written, “You shall not wear combined fibers, wool and linen together” (Deut. 22:11).
In Hebrew, this forbidden mixture is called “shatnez” (pronounced shot-nezz).
Shatnez is an acronym for “combed, spun and woven,” which describes the stages in processing fabric: combing the raw fiber, spinning fibers into a thread, and weaving the threads into cloth.
We send suspicious items to a shatnez laboratory for checking.
The mitzvah of shatnez still applies today. We observe the mitzvah by checking manufacturer labels on the clothes we buy, and by sending suspicious items (like wool suits and coats) to a “shatnez laboratory” for checking.
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