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Why gedolei Torah don’t wear tekheiles

Below is a fascinating letter written in 5776 by a chassidic posek, HaRav Menachem Mendel Shafran, cited by Rabbi Yitzchak Brand, which offers a clear explanation why gedolei Yisrael don't wear tekhelet. HaRav Shafran writes that the evidence in support of Murex is highly convincing, yet for the past 200 years gedolei Yisrael have been...

How do I know if Murex is genuine tekhelet?

A whole lot of ink has been spilled over the past three decades on the question of whether Murex is the real dye used for tekhelet tzitzit. I'm not going to toss out my two cents, but I do want to make one little suggestion: If you're thinking of delving into the topic, make...

Techelet Debate: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan chimes in 3 decades ago

When it comes to the raging debate over whether Murex trunculus is the real techelet mentioned in the Torah, it's hard to find someone who is really objective on the issue. Many people, including some rabbanim, seem to have made up their minds for the most part, before they start "investigating" the matter. For example,...

Ptil Tekhelet

The Ptil Tekhelet Association was founded some 30 years ago. To make their first batch of ten they spent a year hard at work. Today well over 100,000 people around the world put Ptil Tekhelet on their tallit or tallit katan. View Techelet Tallit selection>>> Tallit Katan with techelet tzitzit>>> Buy Ptil Tekhelet tzitzit strings>>> According to Baruch...

The Color Techelet

by Jonah Mandel The Jerusalem Post Not quite azure, more of a midnight blue. That is apparently the actual color of the biblical techelet, according to Prof. Zvi Koren, who spoke this week at the Shenkar College’s International Edelstein Color Symposium. Techelet: Color of a Clear Blue Sky Techelet is the color that was used to dye the...