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The Shaatnez Lab Quest
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Note: This activity was created as a sample
webquest for J-Wit , Summer 2003. The webquest is an inquiry-based
activity, requiring students to develop skills using Internet-based
research, with an emphasis on Judaic textual resources |
| You are a member of a new young Jewish
community in Linenwool, NJ.
Your community now has a shul, a school, and even a Mikvah.
However, when people buy new clothes that need to be checked for
Shaatnez, they must send them to NY. Many
people are complaining about the inconvenience, others are not sure which
of their new clothes need to be sent for a check up, others yet are
questioning the need to do so in this day and age. |
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Many of them want to learn more about
where this extraordinary law comes from and if it has a basis in Torah and
Halacha. Some wonder what may
be the reasons God commanded us to keep this strange Mitzvah. Rabbi Ben
Chacham, your shul’s leader, has appointed you to serve on the research
committee for the observance of Shaatnez. |
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