Talmud for Menachot 81:4
אלא מאי פטורה הטיל למוטלת
Can it mean: And so it is, too, in regard to applicability of the prohibition of diverse kinds?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Namely, that a garment which is too small to cover a child but which might be worn by a grown-up person temporarily is not prohibited, although consisting of diverse kinds, wool and linen.');"><sup>1</sup></span>
Tractate Tzitzit
Ẓizith [of a ṭallith used as a shroud] upon a corpse should not be undone.25The removal of the zizith would be an insult to the dead, which is condemned in Prov. 17, 5, Whoso mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker, and a dead man is the poorest of all. Abba Saul b. Boṭhnith said, ‘My father told me, “When I die, undo the zizith [in my ṭallith] because they come within the category of holiness”‘.26And should be undone before the ṭallith is used as a shroud. The Sages said: It does not come within the category of holiness, so one may use it as a shroud for the dead or as a pack-saddle for an ass.
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