Ptil Tekhelet

Ptil Tekhelet tzitzit for Sephardic Jews

The Ptil Tekhelet Organization makes two types of strings, known as "Raavad" and "Rambam." The reason is because there is no consensus in the Rishonim as to how many of the strings should be blue and how many should be white. The Raavad strings are all blue, whereas the Rambam strings are half blue....

Ptil Tekhelet Tzitzit: Sephardic Tying

A fairly significant number of our tallit and tallit katan customers who select Ptil Tekhelet tzitzit want us to tie them according to the Sephardic custom. For example, this week we received the following inquiry from a prospective techelet buyer in the US: I am looking at new Tallit Gadol. In the past I have...

Tekhelet Research Conference in Jerusalem

Some 350 participants and 20 speakers are expected to take part in an international conference on techelet research on December 30 at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Yitzchak Halevi Herzog The conference was initiated to mark the centennial of the late Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog's ground-breaking doctoral dissertation, "The Dyeing...

Lech Lecha: Tekhelet, Tefillin and Avraham Avinu

A quick vort on Parshat Lech Lecha, disseminated by the Ptil Tekhelet Association: In this week’s parshah, Parashat Lech-Lecha, Avraham Avinu refuses to accept a gift from the king of Sodom lest it be said that he was the one who made Avraham wealthy. אם מחוט ועד שרוך נעל “I will not take a thread or a...

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...

Radzyn Techelet

For those of you who would like detailed information on Radzin techelet tzitzit from a Chassidic – primarily Breslov – angle, I recommend the link at the bottom of this page, including the comments, which also offer a wealth of information. I also recently came across a question to a Modern Orthodox rabbi posed by...