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Israel Story

74: Shatnez

Israel Story

Israel Story

Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In Israel, there are many things that usually don't - and according to some, never should - mix: Jerusalemites and the beach, Tel Avivis and the Kotel, HaPoel and Macabbi fans, Haaretz and Yisrael HaYom readers. But our episode today explores the most complicated and fundamental duo in terms of mixing and not-mixing - Jews and Arabs. Stay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and by signing up for our newsletter at israelstory.org/newsletter/. For more, head to our site or Tablet Magazine.

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0:00.0

A lot of people are calling to drop off suits, Rabbi Huda Schloss sits behind a massive pile of garments.

0:13.0

Can you introduce yourself?

0:20.0

Yes, I am Huda Schloss.

0:24.0

I live in Modenilid.

0:26.0

What would you like to say about...

0:28.0

Did you have a family of kids?

0:30.0

Yes, right.

0:32.0

I'm married with ten kids.

0:35.0

I just lived last week married off one of my children.

0:39.0

Yes, thank you.

0:41.0

We're in a small and crowded apartment.

0:44.0

On the ground floor of a large building on the Ravshach street, in ultra-orthodox Bernabrac.

0:50.0

Every possible inch of wall is covered with clothes racks and hangars.

0:55.0

Suites, pants, coats, blouses, shirts, all carefully pressed in plastic protectors,

1:02.0

and with little tags hanging from them.

1:05.0

Like a dry cleaner.

1:06.0

Yeah, yeah, it's the same idea.

1:08.0

Yehuda, salt and pepper beard, white shirt, big black yamaka,

1:13.0

is a shotniz tester at the Bernabrac municipal shotniz laboratory.

1:18.0

So Rabbi Schloss, my main question is what on earth is shotniz?

1:24.0

Shotniz means wool and linen mixed together.

1:27.0

The weaving together of wool and linen fibers is, according to the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, forbidden.

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