Body Like the Sea, Form Like Fish, Once in 70 Years

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A baraisa (Menachos 44a) describes the chilazon as follows: “Its body resembles the sea, its form resembles a fish, it emerges once in 70 years, and with its blood one dyes wool sky-blue for tzitzis”. None of these descriptions fit the Murex. (Rav Asher Weiss)

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R' Chaim Klein • Source: Mishpacha Response to Murex
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It has already been explained at length in many seforim about the murex techeiles that these descriptions actually fit very well with the murex if they are understood properly.

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