By COLlive reporter
The reputable Shatnez Laboratory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has confirmed that the Kapotas created by Sacho Kapotas are permissible to be worn without concern of Shatnez.
Its director Rabbi Shloime Fisher of the Shatnes Lab of Mitzvoth on Lee Avenue, was given the exact Kapota that a Shatnez Laboratory in Monsey said had Shatnez in its collar.
Shatnez is the prohibition in the Torah against wearing wool and linen together in the same garment.
In a statement on video and in a phone conversation with COLlive, after examining the Kapota’s collar, Rabbi Fisher said: “It’s a recycled material, it’s mostly cotton/polyester, maybe there’s a couple of fibers of wool in it, it doesn’t make it Shatnez.”
His conclusion is also in line with a check that was done by the longtime Shatnez checker in Crown Heights, R’ Ezra Cohen at Regency Cleaners, who declared the same Kapota as 100% Shatnez free, after checking it more than once.
Asked what could be the reason for the discrepancy in rulings, Cohen said, “there is something there that looks a little bit like Shatnez, but it is not, and an inexperienced Shatnez checker could make that mistake.”
Also giving a non-Shatnez hechsher to one of Sacho’s Kaotas (not the one in question) on Friday is the Shatnez Lab of Yeshivat Mikdash Melech in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Sacho said he received many worried inquiries following the notice from the Monsey lab. He said Shatnez is an important concern for him and is glad that his Kapotas have been proven to be shatnez free.
Sacho, who operates out of the Primo Hatters store on Kingston Avenue, said he has no hard feelings against Rabbi Menachem Fogel of the Monsey lab.
“In defense of the Monsey Shatnez laboratory, they were just doing their job,” he told COLlive.com “They thought they found something and had to report it. And I’m glad we can put this issue behind us now.”
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This is mamesh not right that stam a checker in Monsey wants to defame an honest yungehrman and business in kahn tzivah!
Some monetary compensation for the defamation should be forthcoming!
i would imagine that this isnt a blanket hechsher for all Sachos kapotes to be shatnez free .. and just as with food kashrut ,one needs mashgichimand spot checks ,so too applies to ensuring clothes are shatnez free .
OR does this mean than kapotes from this vendor NEVER need checking for Shatnes
Its mamesh Motzei Shem Rah…Yad Chassidus Al Ha’Elyona!
Rabbi Drebin from Flatbush Shatnez Lab is a real expert and a Tzadik
I wouldn’t trust anyone else. And they are so pleasant, even when I took in my skirts & jackets, they treated me with respect and pleasantness. If they say these kapotehs are kosher, they’re kosher. The Monsey lab needs to publish a retraction & an apology, even if it was a genuine mistake.
I WOULD SI\UGGEST THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL LOOK THROUGH HIS OR HER CLOSET TO SEE THAT ALL CLOTHING ARE NON SHATNEZ, WHETHER YOU ASK A RELIABLE ROV OR HAVE EACH GARMENT CHECKED SEPARATELY..
Thank you #4, Its so easy to throw out accusations, but something like this is very serious and should never have happened.
If that person was so ‘concerned’ in keeping with ahavas yisroel, they should have gone directly to the business to discuss their concerns vs putting it out their publicly and yes they should publicly apologize.
BS”D Monetary compensation is called for, for such a slander
You can’t just in and say something is shatnez if it isn’t. That is a potential business killer! Anyone who saw the first article will think twice before buying from there. The Monsey rabbi should issue a public apology and maybe have to go through another training. He obviously doesn’t know what he’s doing…
Go Mendy. You are the best. May you continue to have hatzlacha
I am very happy to hear that it’s all clear. We are very happy with the kapota we got from them, and will continue buying from Primo.
I love to wear my sacho kapota every shabbos. Great kapota. Great service. Much Hatzlocha