The weekday tying method Rabbi Sofer personally uses is as follows, with regular Ashkenazi Winds and 7-8-11-13: 7: 3 W 4 B 8: 3 W 5 B 11: 5 W 6 B 13: 6 B 7 W His rationale is as follows: He wants the Techeiles to have more Chashivus than the lavan chulyos, but…
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The Krechnif tying method is very similar to Belzer Chulyos, but the difference is that when looping the Shamash through the middle, one loops it twice over. It’s almost like a windsor tie knot versus half a windsor.
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The Magen Avraham of Trisk holds that the chulyos need to start full after each double knot, as opposed to completing the previous Chulya broken off. In Belz, there was an argument between R’ Yissachar Dov from Belz and his son, the succeeding Belzer Rav, when they do the Chulyos, do they do it 3-3-1…
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The Ribnitzer Rebbe used to tie his own Tzitzis and he ordered his Chulyos differently from the left and right sides. Here is the order. Buy The Ribnitzer Rebbe's Israel Bookshop Publications Bio on Amazon Today!Available in: US | CA FLFRBLBR xxxxxxxx 14343 3434 xxxxxxxx 22222 3333 3333 xxxxxxxx 32222 3333 3333 3333 xxxxxxxx 41111…
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The Magen Avraham of Trisk holds that the chulyos need to start full after each double knot, as opposed to completing the previous Chulya broken off. In Belz, there was an argument between R’ Yissachar Dov from Belz and his son, the succeeding Belzer Rav, when they do the Chulyos, do they do it 3-3-1…
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The Riva (ריב״א) variation of Rav Heschel Weiner (formerly Chicago today Ma’ale Adumim.) The variation keeps with today’s 7-8-11-13 by adding extra blue wraps on the first 3 and white on the fourth. 3 white – 4 techelet 3 white – 5 techelet 3 white – 8 techelet 13 white
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An elegant variation of 7-8-11-13 with Tosafos ratio. Pure Tosafos mandates 7 Chulyos, yet there’s a Yesh Omrim at the end suggesting each Chulya can be more than 3 winds. This is done as follows: 3-4, 4-4, 5-6, 13. This method isn’t specified by anyone in particular but is an interesting interpretation plus one is…
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This is similar in format to the Ben Ish Hai method, but without the “spine.” After each Chulya of three, the Shamash goes through each set of four strings to make a separation between one Chulya and the next. What we do to make it more even is we switch direction of the winds after…
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From Ptil Tekhelet: This method defines a chulyah as between 7 and 13 twists. There are five (double) knots, with chulyot between them of twists that alternate between Tekhelet and white. The first and last twist of each chulyah is white. Additional comments: This is a method open to a lot of interpretation since Raavad…
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