In Rimonei Techeiles, R’ Moshe Ephraim Indik focuses on one specific question: assuming a person is wearing Techeiles, how many of the four tzitzis strings should be Techeiles? He does not attempt to establish whether the modern Techeiles identification is correct; his discussion begins with those who are already wearing it and asks what should be done lemaaseh regarding the number of strings.
His basic conclusion is that the primary halachic position is two full strings of Techeiles and two full strings of white—which, after the four strings are folded through the corner, appears as four Techeiles ends and four white ends. He argues that this is the view of Rashi, Tosafos, and most of the Rishonim, and that it fits the straightforward reading of the sugyos in Menachos.
A major part of the kuntres is devoted to the girsa of the Sifrei. The printed Sifrei in Parshas Shelach seems to support a smaller amount of Techeiles, while the Sifrei in Ki Seitzei explicitly gives equal numbers of Techeiles and white. The author compares the early quotations and manuscript readings and argues that the Tosafos-style girsa—four Techeiles ends and four white ends—is the more original and reliable text. He also explains why the apparent difficulties in that reading are not decisive.
The kuntres then examines the Gemara, the various Rishonim, and the practical halachic record. The author notes that important Acharonim, including the Mishnah Berurah and Chazon Ish, rule in practical matters according to the Rashi/Tosafos framework. He also deals at length with an apparent contradiction in the writings of the Gra, arguing that the Gra’s position in his Biur HaGra to Shulchan Aruch should be treated as his primary conclusion: two strings of Techeiles and two of white.
Bottom line: Rimonei Techeiles is an extended defense of the two-and-two shita. Its argument is not based on one isolated source, but on the Sifrei’s textual history, the sugyos in Menachos, the majority of the Rishonim, later halachic practice, and the author’s reading of the Gra.
