wearing wool and patching garments when needed are commendable practices of the early generations. Refusing to do so altogether is blameworthy. But someone who deliberately takes an intact garment, tears it, then patches it with scraps, and wears fine wool superior to cotton and linen, combines two forms of corruption.

As for religion, he imagines that restricting oneself to patched clothing and wool is part of religion. Then he seeks to display its outward appearance without its substance, spending more on this than would be spent on intact cotton garments. This is contrary to asceticism. There is also the waste of wealth through destroying it and spending it on what brings no benefit, either in religion or in worldly life.