Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah taught that people should not say that they do not want to wear a wool-linen mixture (, "shatnez", prohibited by and ), eat pork (prohibited by and ), or be intimate with forbidden partners (prohibited by and ), but rather should say that they would love to, but God has decreed that they not do so. For in , God says, "I have separated you from the nations to be mine." So one should separate from transgression and accept the rule of Heaven.