Is clothing made of polyester ritually impure, knowing that it is produced by the reaction of an acid with an alcohol to form an ester?
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These clothes are not impure (najis), for the alcoholic substance — if it were impure — has transformed into another substance, thereby becoming pure, and has been consumed by the other materials composing the clothes.
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