Kilayim 9:9 - 9:10

הלבדים (felted stuff/cloaks) – hackled/combed wool without spinning and weaving, and they make from it clothing. But if he combined/mixed wool and linen together and made from them clothing, they are prohibited from the Rabbis, for specifically from the Torah it requires that all three of them are hackled, spun and weaved, but from the Rabbis one of these is enough, or hackled/combed, or spun or woven, and these since they are hackled, they are forbidden from their (i.e., the Rabbis’) words.

פיו של צמר בשל פשתן (fringe of wool fastened onto [garment] of linen) – the weaving after they complete the clothing that is customary to make on its rim and four thick threads in order that the clothing will endure, and it is called a fringe [knotted to the border], but if the clothing is of linen, it is forbidden to make its fringe [knotted to the border] of wool.

מפני שחוזרין לאריג (because the threads [of the fringe] interlace the web [of the garment]) – for they surround the web/weaving. Another interpretation: they are similar to the web/weaving.

משיחות של ארגמן (ribbons of purple)– that which remains over and ropes of purple colored wool.

אסורות – [it is forbidden] to gird to top of a cloak of linen.

מפני שהוא מולל עד שלא קושר (because he hems [the purple band] before he knots it) – for I is their custom to attach through hemming the wool outfit with the linen cloak prior to tying its loins.

ולא יקשור סרט של צמר בשל פשתן – a person should not make belts/girdings of wool and belts/girdings of linen and tie them to each other.

אע"פ שהרצועה באמצע – as for example, a belt of wool that here are bands of linen at one end and bands of wool at the other end and when he girds it, he ties the two heads/ends of wool and of linen with each other, for if this were not the case, it is obvious that it is permitted, for they are the daily actions regarding clothing of wool that hey place underneath them skins of cloth used as a blanket when they are sewn in linen.

אותות הגרדיים – it is the manner of the weavers and launders to mark the name of the owners on the clothing in an embroidered work in order that one’s [clothing] will not get switched with that of his fellow. But if the clothing is of wool and the marks are of linen or the opposite, it is forbidden because of Kilayim/mixed seeds.

תכיפה א' (one stitch) – one stitch that that the needle inserted in the clothing one time alone.

אינו חבור – for ritual impurities and spiritual purity. BU t if one of them became defiled, its neighbor/partner was not defiled, and if he sprinkled upon one of them, he didn’t sprinkle on its neighbor.

ואין בה משום כלאים – if one is of wool and the other is linen and he combined them in one stitch.

והשומטה בשבת (he who undoes the fastening on Shabbat) – in order to return and to sow, he is exempt, for it is not like tearing in order to sow two stitches where one is liable.

עשה שתי ראשים לצד א' (brought both ends of the thread to one side) – as for example, he transferred the needle once but did not transfer all of the thread but transferred the needle a second time, and it was found that he two ends [of the thread] are on on side and tied them, but if he didn’t tie the tw ends together, it is not enduring.

עד שישלש – that he would bring in and take out and return and bring in three times [i.e., one complete and one incomplete stitch]. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

השק והקופה מצרפין לכלאים – if one piece of wool clothing is attached to a sack and [and another] piece of linen clothing is attached to a basket, and he attached them together with two stitches, they combine, even though they are not attached to two utensils, and we don’t say that this one stands alone and that one stands alone and are not connected. And the same law applies if they are attached to the rest of the utensils, for their law is like that of a sack and a basket.