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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R’ Hershel Schachter learns the Rambam’s way of separating chulyos by knots. While R’ Schachter wears Tosafos ratio, some tie like him but will use different string ratios, in this case Rambam ratio which is 1/8 Techeiles/Lavan.
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This is YKVK (26) with Techeiles, but Yidy Fuxman of Knot the Tzitzit believes that some Teimanim will end off, not with a double knot, but with a Teimani Chulya of 2 white winds forming a distinct knot. An open questin is, why doesn’t the tying begin with a white wind which the Gemara is…
read more This uses a variation of Raavad tying. It’s al pi Kabbala 7-7-7-7 but the second chulya is all white, since the Techeiles ones are Domeh L’Rakia/Shamayim, and the remainder makes it add up to 28 which has some Koach. Some Yemenite Jews will also do 28 (even though 26 is YKVK) since there is some…
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Here it’s done 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 7 which makes the winds even per the Lekach Tov. The reason also for 7 winds is to satisfy Tosafos’ Yesh Omrim that there should be no less than 7 winds between knots.
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While the GR”A in Yahel Ohr is explicit that each set of 4 chulyos alternates blue and white, this is moreso Rambam with a “nod” to the GR”A in terms of how the double knots are spaced out: 4-4-4-1. To quote from the Daf Yomi Page (p. 4): “Another understanding of the Rambam – The…
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Basically 7 Tosafos Chulyos with 7 winds per Chulya. This is in line with R’ Hershel Schachter’s reasoning to factor in the Raavad’s minimum length of winds.
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10-5-6-5 add up to the numerical equivalent of 26, which is YKVK (the Tetragrammaton). This is a centuries-old tying Minhag (Italian Jews; Spanish, Portuguese and North African Sephardim). Click here to buy “Jews and Muslims in Morocco” on Amazon. Click here to buy “Jews and Muslims in Morocco” on Amazon.
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5 Knots as per Rashi and a sense of tradition. Re: criscrossing as per the Ben Ish Hai, this tyer has seen this in a citation from ספר תרומת הדשן .
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Received an email from Ptil Tekhelet on this: זו שיטה של : יש 5 קשרים (לא כפולים) בהתחלה + 5 קשרים (לא כפולים) בסוף , כדי להגיע למניין של 5 קשרים כפולים . מתחיל ומסיים בלבן , ולכן חוליה לבנה בהתחלה ובסוף , בין החוליות יש 7 כריכות , כך “מרוויחים” שיש לנו 2 “חוליות”…
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