Kilayim 9:7 - 9:8

הברסין והברדסין (birrus – a cloak of thick woolen material and Brundisian cloaks) – both are made from wool and they cover with it the beds but some of them are thin and others are thick.

דולמטיקיון (dalmatic) - wool pants covering the legs; KAKTZISH in the foreign tongue.

מנעל הפינון (felt shoes) – shoes that are made from the refuse of wool.

עד שיבדוק – lest perhaps there is flax mixed in them.

הבאים מחוף הים וממדינות הים – from the seacoast which is from abroad.

שחזקתו מן הקנבוס – this Mishnah is teaching at first about a time when flax/linen was not found in every place, but at the present time where flax/linen is found everywhere, everyone needs to examine, therefore, a person who purchases clothing sewn by a heathen in the present time shojld not wear it until he examines it well.

ומנעל של זרב (cloth-lined shoe) – leather shoes which are covered inside with felt or with thick wool and reach until the leg, like those that they call in the foreign tongue BORZKISH or in Arabic KUPASH, and because they are made to warm the foot, they are called זרב /cloth-lined as is the language (Job 6:17): “But when they thaw, they vanish.”

אין בהם משום כלאים – we are not concerned lest linen/flax is combined/mixed in with them.

שוע טווי ונוז (hackled, spun or weaved) – שוע – is combed/hatched with a comb and שוע/hackled is smooth. A smooth [skinned] man (i.e., like Jacob, see Genesis 27:11 when he says to his mother Rebecca: “But my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am smooth-skinned”) which we translate in Aramaic as גבר שעיע/smooth-skinned man.

נוז – twisted, that is two threads twisted together. And the essential principle from the Torah about Kilayim/mixed seeds is that the wool will be combed and spun and weaved alone. And similarly, the linen will be combed and spun and weaved alone, and after that, they will be weaved/plaited together or combined together with two stitches that are like a weaving. And because of this, Scripture needed to permit Kilayim/mixed seeds in Tzizit/ritual fringes because the threads of Tekhelet are woven, as it is written (Numbers 15:38): “let them attach a cord of blue [to the fringe at each corner],” spun and woven, and similarly the white string, when they combine them together with two stitches, this is complete Kilayim/mixed seeds according to the Torah. But it is taught in the Mishnah hear, that there is no prohibition because of mixed seeds/Kilayim other than spun or woven, as it states (Deuteronomy 22:11): “You shall not wear cloth combining wool and linen,” not for expounding a Midrash is weaving from Shaatnez/mixed cloth, for weaving is from “together”/יחדו (end of Deuteronomy 22:11) it is derived, for we expound from it that even two stitches are a combination, and we don’t bring Shaatnez other than because of spinning. But I saw that one of our Rabbis who explained that hackled or combed/שוע of he wool alone and the linen is alone, and weaving/נוז, that is to say, and afterwards that is both of them woven together and this fits well with the language of the Mishnah extremely well, and this is what is implied in the Jerusalem Talmud and in many commentaries that I found of my Rabbis/teachers as an explanation to שוע טווי ונוז/hackled, spun or weaved. But all of them have a refutation outside of that which doesn’t not have a refutation.

נלוז ומליז – curved and someone who is tortuous in the ways of his father that is in heaven up on him. It is the language of (Proverbs 3:21): “My son, do not lose sight of them.”