The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment’s ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance artists centuries later Eli Wizevich | History Correspondent | February 4, 2025 The hunk weighs a whopping five pounds and measures more than six inches long. Simona Murrone / Colosseum Archaeological Park In the ruins of Rome’s…
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Researchers have estimated how much the home’s owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of the Egyptian blue pigment and the hours of labor required to prepare it Sonja Anderson | Daily Correspondent March 18, 2026 Fifteen amphorae were found inside the Blue Room. Archaeological Park of Pompeii (Source: smithsonianmag.com) In 2024,…
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Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the pigment’s recipe was eventually lost to history Sonja Anderson | Daily Correspondent June 12, 2025 An ancient wooden falcon decorated with Egyptian blue alongside one of the newly developed pigments Matt Unger / Joshua Franzos…
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R’ Yisroel Barkin was asked: “why didn’t R’ Yisroel Belsky tell his kids to start wearing Techeiles bichlal?” R’ Yisroel Barkin’s answer: “He didn’t tell anyone to. He only talked about it when he was asked. He said clearly that he doesn’t want to give a Psak about it. He told someone in my presence…
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April 5, 2017 HERE I WAS, DIGGING IN THE SAND ALONG THE MEXICAN SHORES OF HUATULCO, A SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN WITH NATURAL COVES, LAGOONS, AND MAGNIFICENT CLIFFS OVERLOOKING THE ENDLESS OCEAN. THIS WAS NO VACATION, THOUGH. I WAS ON A MISSION — TO SEARCH OUT A PARTICULAR SNAIL AND TEST IF ITS SECRETION COULD BE…
read moreBy: Ben’s Tallit Shop Ensuring that your tallit katan meets all the requirements to fulfill the mitzvah of tzitzit is not as simple as you might think. Although generally speaking, there’s sort of a general understanding that if you have a standard cotton tallis katan in Size 8 (US Size 20) or bigger, or a…
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By Baruch Lytle Rabbi Baraza with a fellow member of Ohel Leah synagogue. This week is the reading of Parshas Shelach, where the mitzvah to wear techeiles and tzitzit are first mentioned. While its modern-day application has drawn skepticism for many years, particularly in the chasidish community, the practice of wearing blue techeiles and its acceptance…
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I want to share with you a thought I had today. It’s gonna sound a bit strange to you but I really felt it as it entered my head so bear with me. Let’s start with a confession. We have a Torah commandment to wear strings on any four cornered garment. The commandment is called…
read moreHalachah speaks of four basic colors: shachor (black); adom (red); lavan (white); and yarok—which can refer to shades from blue to yellow and any combination of them in various shades of green. There are other colors that are used in the Torah, some which are obsolete today, but those colors are generally named for a…
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From https://www.yeshiva.org.il/midrash/34264 Translated from the original Hebrew: https://bluefringes.com/2026/02/19/%d7%94%d7%aa%d7%9b%d7%9c%d7%aa-%d7%95%d7%97%d7%99%d7%93%d7%95%d7%a9%d7%94/ HaRav Shmuel Ariel Iyar 5777 70 Minute Read Summary: Tekhelet and Its Renewal What the article is trying to answer Chazal describe tekhelet as a required element of tzitzis, produced from the chilazon. The article asks what we can say today about restoring tekhelet: Do we have…
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