[Avodah] Coat Room Mix-up

[Aryeh Herzig]

On this topic, a personal anecdote.
Forty years ago on a cold, wintery Shabbos, someone took my coat (with my
name marked inside) at the Agudah on 14th Ave. in Boro Park.  I had no
choice but to take the last coat left on the rack which was identical in
every way to mine.
After I got home I remembered that my original coat was found to have
Shatnez and it was removed.
The coat I took home did not have a shatnez label.
I brought it in on Monday to the lab and, sure enough, it had shatnez.  I
paid and had it removed.
I continued wearing this coat for many years always checking the coat rack
in the Agudah.
The mysterious owner never showed up again.

Did I do the right thing taking the coat in the first place?
What Mitzva did he do to be saved from Shatnez?
What Aveira did I do to to be Nichshal in Shatnez?

Aryeh
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