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Ptil Tekhelet tzitzit for Sephardic Jews

February 11, 2020 February 11, 2020 By Ben
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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....

Tekhelet Research Conference in Jerusalem

December 25, 2013 December 25, 2013 By Ben
Tzitzit

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...