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Does anyone know if momeni brand woolen rugs contain shatnez(possibly in the backing)? I tried to call the offie and they are closed for the day. I know this is a long shot, but I thought I would try the CR anyway.
why is shatnez a problem you aren’t wearing it?
The Kitzur shulchan Aruch siman kuf ayin vuv, paskens, since we are not experts in how chazal defined “rachin” and “kashin”, we should always be machmir (I’m assuming others have some familiarity with the sugya by using these terms). Do you plan on sitting on this rug? Walking barefoot on this rug? These factors might come into play when you ask your Rav this shayla (if it turns out the rug contains shatnez).
“why is shatnez a problem you aren’t wearing it?”
Midirabanan it is. the braisa of “esser metsiyos” is brought down in a number of places. See Beiya yud daled amud beis near the bottom, for example.
apushitayid: The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch is not a sefer for practical psak in individual situations. Like the Mishnah Brurah, the Kitzur very often rules l’chumra on all matters in which there are differences of opinion among the rishonim and achronim. A good posek, however, when presented with a concrete situation is able to weigh all the circumstances and provide a ruling that is unlikely to be so cut and dry, and more unlikely to be categorically l’chumra. (I am not attacking you comment, since you did end with a comment suggesting the OP ask a rav for a practical psak; just making a general observation about many yeshiva-educated people’s tendency to jump too quickly from what they can read in a sefer or two to a practical psak halacha in a concrete situation).
Apushatayid, based on that learned post, you dont sound like such a pudhite yid at all!!!!
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