(a) Version #1 (our text) (Rav Yehudah): If one finds Sha'atnez in his garment, even in the market, he must take it off.

(c) Question: What is the reason?

(d) Answer: "Ein Chachmah v'Ein Tevunah v'Ein Etzah l'Neged Hash-m" -- wherever desecration of Hashem's name is involved, we do not give honor to an important person (to leave the garment on him).

1. Kevod ha'Beriyos (human dignity) overrides [any] Lav of the Torah.

(Rav bar Sheva): It overrides [only] the Lav of "Lo Sasur" (do not veer from what the Rabbis say).

(k) Chachamim of Eretz Yisrael laughed at this. If so [Kevod ha'Briyos overrides Chachamim's rulings about Mitzvos], one may transgress any Lav!

(l) Rav Kahana: Do not laugh at anything that a great Chacham says! All mid'Rabanan laws are based on Lo Sasur. Chachamim [pardoned their honor, and] said that Kevod ha'Beriyos overrides their laws.

...How were our predecessors different from us that miracles occurred for them but not for us? ,Our predecessors jeopardised their lives for the sanctification of the Name, but we do not. ,As it once happened with Rab Adda b. Ahabah who noticed a heathen woman wearing a karbalta in the street; thinking that she was an Israelite, he went up to her and tore it from off her., It was then discovered that she was a heathen, and they fined him four hundred Zuzim.,