Hillel Fuld will tell you upfront: he comes from a family that sweats. Not metaphorically — actually, physically, chronically. And for most of his adult life, that was reason enough to skip the mitzvah of tzitzit almost entirely. One more layer under his shirt in the Israeli heat wasn’t happening. He’s said as much himself,…
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HaRav Binyomin Zev Horvitz is a Bnei Brak-based talmid chacham and author best known for his serious halachic work on modern-day Techeiles. In a subject that can get noisy very quickly — part Gemara, part mesorah, part archaeology, part chemistry, and part communal nerves — Rav Horvitz took the quieter route. He sat down with…
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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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Joel Guberman wrote in a private text: “I was zoche to give HaRav Druckman zt”l a tallit with techeilet after he was mesader kiddushin of my daughter… [he] received a tallit as a gift. It was tyed Raavad chinuch. His grandson said he wore the tallit on shabbat. When asked his opinion he was quoted…
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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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(This article was written later.) Just as there are three opinions regarding the number of Tekhelet threads—according to the Rambam, one out of eight; according to the Ra’avad, two out of eight; and according to Tosafot, four out of eight—so too, among those who wear Tekhelet, all three approaches exist within the community. However, the…
read more I saw in the booklet of the Ptil Tekhelet Association on Parashat Shelach, which included several articles about Tekhelet, and all of them are worthy of praise. However, one article seems to warrant critique. This is what my friend Rabbi Shlomo Teitelbaum, shlit”a, wrote regarding the number of threads. He wrote that one should follow…
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Rabbi Baruch Natan Rotman was born on 26 Cheshvan 5729 in Bnei Brak to a Religious Zionist family with lineage tracing back to רבי אלימלך מליז’ענסק. During his childhood, his family spent two years in England, where he studied in second and third grade. He later learned at Yeshiva Tichonit Sha’alvim. In his second year…
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You don’t need to be in Brooklyn to learn from Rabbi Eli Mansour. But if you are, chances are you’ve heard him live—clear, steady, and straight to the heart. Born in 1968 and raised in Brooklyn’s Syrian Sephardic community, Rabbi Mansour’s path took him from local yeshivot like Magen David and Shaare Torah, to serious…
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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Eretz Yisrael from age nine—first in Kedumim, then Ma’ale Adumim and Har Nof—Rabbi Avi Berman carries both an American spark and an Israeli grit into his work. He went through high school at Ohr Etzion’s Hesder Yeshiva in Shilo, served in the IDF, and then stayed on for four years of semicha study…
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