This afternoon I took the girls to Costco while Ben was teaching. Since I wanted to stay out the whole time, I told them that for fun we'd walk down every aisle in the store. I stopped briefly to look at some girls' socks. Anna told me that she wanted them, and then asked me a question. I couldn't quite understand what she said, so I asked her to repeat herself. That time, both Rachel and I heard the same question:
"Are they kosher?"
After we stopped laughing, we explained to Anna that while food must be kosher, it's different for clothes. But since I have a bizarre memory for random knowledge, I decided to tell them a bit more about what is and isn't kosher. The term shatnetz applies to clothes that are a mixture of sheep's wool and linen. This is prohibited in the Torah, but no reason is given for the prohibition. We talked about what clothes are made of, and concluded that the socks were most likely kosher (we'd moved on by then or I'd have gotten Rachel to read the label!) but that we still wouldn't eat them.
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