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October 20, 2022
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GR”A Vilna Gaon Style – All Blue with Teimani Chulyos

GR”A Vilna Gaon Style – All Blue with Teimani Chulyos https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/02180324/gra-chaim-twerski.jpg 413 1877 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 20, 2022 February 7, 2023

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…

rhecht
August 6, 2020
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North Africa/Molcho 10-5-6-5 Method

North Africa/Molcho 10-5-6-5 Method https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/06182913/north-africa-molcho.jpg 609 3873 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 6, 2020 March 7, 2023

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).

rhecht
May 10, 2020
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Rambam 7 with 5 Knots, Chabad Chulyot Crisscrossed

Rambam 7 with 5 Knots, Chabad Chulyot Crisscrossed https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/10055423/rambam-7-chabad-chulyot-crisscross.jpg 1536 2048 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 10, 2020 June 29, 2020

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 .

rhecht
April 29, 2020
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Tosafos Mystery Shitta – 13 Winds, 5 knots

Tosafos Mystery Shitta – 13 Winds, 5 knots https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/28154159/mystery-shittah-3.jpg 237 1032 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 29, 2020 April 29, 2020

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”…

rhecht
April 29, 2020
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Tosafot Mystery Shitta

Tosafot Mystery Shitta https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/28154153/mystery-shittah-2.jpg 519 1847 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 29, 2020 April 29, 2020

This Shitta is based on a very unique way to learn Tosafot. From what I was emailed: 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 . לגבי חוליות תימניות : אלו חוליות מלאות…

rhecht
April 1, 2020
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Vilna Gaon (GR”A) 7 Method

Vilna Gaon (GR”A) 7 Method https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17134431/gra-7-rambam-raavad.jpg 720 960 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 1, 2020 October 25, 2020

From Ptil Tekhelet: This method defines a chulyah as a group of three twists. It has 13 chulyot but can also be 7, and generally alternates white and Tekhelet between them, starting and ending with a chulyah of white. Those chulyot are distributed between five (double) knots with two chulyot between the top four knots…

rhecht
April 1, 2020
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Rambam R’ Hershel Schachter 1.0

Rambam R’ Hershel Schachter 1.0 https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/07165311/rambam-schachter.jpg 200 285 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g April 1, 2020 April 29, 2020

R’ Hershel Schachter learns the Rambam’s way of separating chulyos by knots. He also started out doing seven 3-wind Chulyos. For those that want to use Rambam ratio strings, this option is available.

rhecht
January 29, 2020
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Rosh, or Reverse Chinuch Method

Rosh, or Reverse Chinuch Method https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/29230406/301967EF-A309-4282-B477-BB0B79A311AB.jpeg 720 960 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 29, 2020 August 24, 2022

Some prefer 7 Techeiles Chulyos instead of 6. This method allows for it by doing blue-white-blue in between knots 2-3 and 3-4. From VilnaGaon.org: “A Discussion of the Viewpoint of the Rosh on Tying Tzitzit With Tekhelet In the commentary of the Rosh on the Torah in the book Hadar Z’kainim, at the end of…

rhecht
January 9, 2020
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GR”A Vilna Gaon Style – All Blue with Chabad Chulyos

GR”A Vilna Gaon Style – All Blue with Chabad Chulyos https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17132705/A1D51E54-989C-43FF-BDC6-E6AFF78E80A3.jpeg 1152 2048 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 9, 2020 October 20, 2022

R’ Chaim Twerski Shlit”a holds like the Raavad (1, 3) and originally tied like the GR”A using all blue Chulyos, using the Chabad/Chassidishe Chulya. However, he has changed his mind and now tells people to tie like the GRA alternating blue and white. He follows R Yitzchok Brand’s Shitta. The general pattern for GR”A is…

rhecht
January 7, 2020
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Rambam 7 Yemenite with 5 Knots Tying – “Erlau Tzitzis”

Rambam 7 Yemenite with 5 Knots Tying – “Erlau Tzitzis” https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/16170244/IMG_5486.jpg 3024 4032 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 7, 2020 December 21, 2021

R’ Aron Steinmetz gave Shiurim at the Erlau Beis Medrash in Boro Park back in July 2018. This Tallis was present at that event which a photographer took due to it’s aesthetic appearance.

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