Techeiles Discussion

Rhecht, when I said it has nothing to do with techeiles, I was reffering to @Nosson's proof from the mounds of shells, that this is techeiles. I pointed out the obvious, that these mounds have nothing to do with techeiles. The proof is from the fact that there were millions of shells from 2 other m...

1. I've read tens of articles about techeiles, and this is what it all boils down to. Some also mention the fact that no other snail is recorded in ancient history books. But that is not much of a proof on its own merit, since there is so little written about mollusk dyeing to begin with. The other...

   rhecht The first and last Chulyas are only 3 winds, the white at the beginning and the end is not part of the Chulyas its an extra add-on for the extra word in the posuk הכנף מין כנף - הכנף as explained in Rashi.  The reason I did 2 winds instead of 1 is because I wanted to have in total more wh...

Hello. As of now I'm Admining/moderating the group and, the hope is that the more members/discussion there is, the more of a need there will be to have more moderators here. To your point: https://www.techeiles.org/ - Top part of the site https://bluefringes.com/ - Top part of the site (just added) ...

The "famous vort" was by the GR"A (https://bluefringes.com/textual_sources/vilna-gaon-on-ledorosam/) who explained why it got lost (not that it will always be lost). The only thing I can think of is, we have a Mesorah, ironically, for Gezeira Shavas. This isn't one of those that we ha...

Rafi writes -- Depends. R' Schachter makes the most sense in that, if you think you might have the right Techeiles (even if it's just might) and choose not to wear it, you are being Over Bal Tigra. Furthermore it's a Machlokes Rishonim whether Tzitzis is one mitzva or five. With white, we are all d...

According to the Shulchan Aruch Harav סימן יא you need 2 blue and 2 white strings, and 13 chulyos of blue and white with a kesher on each chulya, that can be done with a קשר תימני. all this is very similar to what Rashi is saying in .מנחות לח - לט ע"א The Gemara in מנחות לט ע"א says there...

I would add Woad, which is pretty much the same chemical as you get from Indigofera -- both yielding indigo. But woad was available in Europe, and indigo is from central Asia. Also, woad has less of the chemical than Indigofera, so it sends to come out a shade closer to aqua, as it will have propor...

Doorknob wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:10 am The other way to get out of it is to say that שבלול is a land snail, whereas חילזון is a sea snail.
שערי תירוצים לא ננעלו

 

Right. Rabbi Barkin wrote this and shared it with me. Unfortunately it's in a kuntreiss he has yet to publish.
 

Yosef\Door wrote -- The main proof is via process of elimination- it can't be any other known snail, so it must be this. If you mean Radzin, yes, that is the nature of the attempt. If you mean murex, absolutely not! The proofs are positive proofs, like the millions of murex shells found exactly whe...