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October 20, 2022
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Vilna Gaon on LeDorosam

Vilna Gaon on LeDorosam https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/09171137/gra-ledorosam.bmp 407 302 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 20, 2022 October 20, 2022

Playing devil’s advocate, the GR”A was against Techeiles without a Mesorah. Why is the word L’Dorosom inserted there and not the end of the pasuk? The pasuk almost seems to imply that the mitzvah of Tzitzis will be L’Dorosam but maybe not the mitzvah of Techailes. This proof is attributed to the Vilna Gaon (quoted…

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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 October 20, 2022

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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October 20, 2022
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Rabbi Mordechai Chriqui

Rabbi Mordechai Chriqui https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/19142330/IMG_2964-rotated.jpeg 3024 4032 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 20, 2022 October 20, 2022

From Amazon: Mordekhai Chriqui, Rabbi and researcher in the field of Kabbalah and metaphysics, he is the founder of Ramhal Institute in Jerusalem since 1990. He has published thirty books on Kabbalah and in particular Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramhal) in Hebrew and French, as “Le flambeau de la Cabale”, “Le Maggîd et les écrits…

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October 16, 2022
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Haskama – Rabbi Shlomo Machpud Shlit”a

Haskama – Rabbi Shlomo Machpud Shlit”a https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/16220004/%D7%94%D7%92%D7%A8-%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3-%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%93-rotated.jpg 1932 2576 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 16, 2022 October 16, 2022

בס״ד, יום כסלו תשע”ד. שלמה יוסף מחפוד אב״ד בד״ץ”יורה דעה״ ורב ומו״צ דשכונת נוה אחיעזר ושיכון ו׳ בני ברק דברי ברכה היה למראה עיני קונס׳ חזרת התכלת לישראל. אשר כוננו ידי האברך היקר והנעלה, שוקד באהלה של תורה, שמץ תורק שמו, כש״ת הרב מרדכי אפל שליט״א מעיקו״ת ירושלים תובב״א. עברתי בין בתרי אמרותיו כמסת הפנאי,…

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September 12, 2022
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Rabbi Daniel Cohen

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Rabbi, Shaar HaEmet. Rabbi Cohen has a number of interesting Chumros: Reversing the direction of the winds and loop-throughs of Ben Ish Hai tying so each set of “bumps” are opposite each other, making a DNA-style pattern. Tying small knots at the end of each string, but making sure that there is no extra string…

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September 12, 2022
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Rabbi Meir Elkabas

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Involved in the spreading and dissemination of the teachings and advice of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, his disciples and his movement – through what is called Breslov Therapy. He told me though that, unlike the common Radzyner method of dipping in pre-spun strings (leaving a white core) his was custom dyed prior to spinning, so…

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August 2, 2022
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Rabbi Zvi Thau

Rabbi Zvi Thau https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/02045604/rabbi-zvi-thau.jpg 1536 2048 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 2, 2022 August 2, 2022

Granted he wore someone else’s Tallit Gadol only at a Bris, but this shows he isn’t against Techeiles. From Wikipedia: Zvi Yisrael Thau (Hebrew: צבי ישראל טאו, born 1938) is a Religious Zionist rabbi, a disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem. Biography Hans (Zvi Yisrael) Thau was born in Vienna to parents…

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August 2, 2022
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Rabbi Ovadia ben Yaakov Yosef

Rabbi Ovadia ben Yaakov Yosef https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/02045106/rabbi-ovadia-ben-yaakov-yosef.png 2184 1098 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 2, 2022 August 2, 2022

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June 17, 2022
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Rambam with Double Knots Before and After

Rambam with Double Knots Before and After https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17180446/IMG-20220617-WA0003.jpg 757 1600 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g June 17, 2022 June 17, 2022

The logic here is that the “Kesher Elyon” is unclear if it’s the knot closest to or farthest from the Beged, so this satisfies both if one wants to be Machmir on the double knot according to the Mordechai.

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May 18, 2022
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Rabbi Yonatan Halevy

Rabbi Yonatan Halevy https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/18225128/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-6.50.40-PM.png 942 1698 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022

From his website: Rabbi Yonatan Halevy, affectionately known as Rabbi Yoni, is the Rabbi and Spiritual leader of Kehillat Shaar HaShamayim. Brief Biographical Sketch Rabbi Yonatan studied at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland, for five years, before pursuing his Rabbinical Ordination at the Sheheber Sephardic Center in Jerusalem. Rabbi Yonatan received his…

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