techelet – Ben's Tallit Shop

Can blue tzitzit strings be used as a charm?

Sometimes you run across odd uses for tzitzit strings. This week we received an inquiry from a young woman from Germany, suffering from an ailment and hoping that blue tzitzit strings (techelet) have curative powers. Shalom. One quick question: I am girl. Can I put tzitzit blue to my neck pendant with Hebrew letter chai?...

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,...

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...

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...

Yemenite Tzitzit

I recently came across a product labeled "Yemenite Tzitzit" on one of the leading online tallit shops. This sounded peculiar to me. There is such a thing as Sephardic Tzitzits, which simply come with longer shamash strings for those who tie chulyot (loops) around each winding, but Yemenite tzitzits? What are Yemenite tzitzit? I...

Techelet Debate in Jerusalem

Ashrei will be sponsoring a debate on the mitzvah of tekhelet, featuring Rav Mois Navon of the Ptil Tekhelet Association and Rav Elie Ganz of Yeshivat Keren Ora. The evening will be moderated by Rav Yehoshua Kahan, Director of ASHREI, and is being co-sponsored by the the RRG Hillel Beit Midrash Program at Hebrew University,...

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...