The importance of checking clothing for shatnez. Wearing wool and linen together harms the power of speech and interferes with tefilah (prayer) reaching the highest levels.
Clothing as honor. Introduction to the principles of shatnez (prohibition of wearing linen and wool in a garment).
Using Loshon HaKodesh to make a blessing on permissible items elevates the good that’s in the physical. This is similar to transforming targum (vernacular/mundane speech) into the holiness of holy language. In this way, through speech a Jew can transform something ordinary to something holy.
This Halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 11. 00:00 – Introduction. 11:48 – PARAGRAPH 1. Shmiras HaBris – purity and marriage. 25:56 – PARAGRAPH 2. Chanukah.
This Halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 4. Bitul (self nullification). Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.