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Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do

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Bill Steele  wrote:
> To which, if they had properly studied the Bible, 
they could have responded,> “The Bible only prohibits mixing linen and 
wool.">> I always wondered about that, so I looked,it up today. Seems the 
high priest> wore a headless made of linen and wool, so nobody else was 
allowed to do that.> Maybe somebody had decided that it conferred  special 
powers.>> Comes in a long series about not mixing things: Don’t mix seeds 
a field;> don’t breed different animals together. Sounds like good 
agricultural practice.> Probably the best way to get people to do things 
right wast to say ”because> God said so.” Kind of like speed limits.>


But humans being human they immediately started looking for get-out clauses. 
:)When is wool not wool?  What does 'mixed' really mean?

From Wikipedia -

Definition of shatnez material

In the Torah, one is prohibited from 
wearing shatnez only after it hasbeen carded, woven, and twisted, but the 
rabbis prohibit it if it has
been subjected to any one of these operations. 
Hence felt made with amixture of wool compressed together with linen is 
forbidden. Silk,which resembled wool, and hemp, which resembled linen, 
were formerly
forbidden for appearance's sake, but were later permitted 
incombination with either wool or linen, because we now know how 
to
distinguish them. Hempen thread was thus manufactured and permittedfor 
use in sewing woollen clothing.

Only sheep's wool is considered as wool, 
the finest being that oflambs and rams; excluded is camels' hair, the fur 
of hares, and thewool of goats. If any of the excluded wools is mixed with 
sheep'swool, or spun with it into thread, the character of the material 
isdetermined by the proportion of each. If the greater part of it 
issheep's wool, it is reckoned as wool; if the contrary, it is not wooland 
may be mixed again with linen.
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No wonder Jews have high IQs. 
They've spent centuries trying to workout ways round the laws.  :)


BillK



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Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Rick Moen <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-04 01:33 +0000
  Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Jet Foncannon <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-05 14:36 +0000
    Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Bill Steele <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-11 20:58 +0000
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