Tosafos Archives - Blue Fringes - Techeiles - Tekhelet - Techelet

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July 30, 2021
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Tosafos R’ Yitzchok Twerski

Tosafos R’ Yitzchok Twerski https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/30160701/CF7AD1E2-433B-4A6A-ADF9-39CD4F8CB518.jpeg 1196 1600 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 30, 2021 July 30, 2021

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.

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…

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January 15, 2020
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Tosafos Shulchan Aruch HaRav

Tosafos Shulchan Aruch HaRav https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10154900/C422CBB7-E43E-4DDA-8A86-0DF817F65CB8-rotated-e1615393222980.jpeg 3024 4032 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 15, 2020 March 8, 2023

This method assumes (like the Rambam) that all the twists except for the first and last be Tekhelet. It keeps five (double) knots, and distributes 7, 8, 11, and 13 twists between them. The Tekhelet string is wrapped through and over each group of three (a chulyah) in order to keep them together. It’s basically…

rhecht
January 7, 2020
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R’ Eliyahu Ohayon / Uziel Family Casablanca

R’ Eliyahu Ohayon / Uziel Family Casablanca https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17143219/tying-method-uziel-family-1.jpg 960 950 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 7, 2020 November 2, 2020

The tying method is based on the Halacha of start with white and with white 13 Chulyos. The concept of the Keshira is 3 against 3 and one in the middle.

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January 7, 2020
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Tosafos R’ Yehoshua Yankelewitz

Tosafos R’ Yehoshua Yankelewitz https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17122352/7DEA7166-AA5F-49BA-9080-BADCD471E00C.jpg 470 491 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 7, 2020 March 5, 2021

Tying method of Yehoshua Yankelewitz.

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January 7, 2020
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Tosafos R’ Bentzion Halberstam

Tosafos R’ Bentzion Halberstam https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17150725/AC2B0C14-D8A6-4B80-9192-05E5DCD466E6.jpeg 960 540 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 7, 2020 July 6, 2022

Rabbi Bentzion Halberstam tying method. He explains the breakup in every units of 3, done Chassidishe style with Chassidishe Chulyos. Regarding the breakup in Chulyos between knots, he cites the AR”I in Shaar Hakavanos where he permits breaking up the Chulyos for the 7-8-11-13 pattern. This is done blue-white.

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January 7, 2020
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RAMA”K (R’ Moshe Cordevero) Tying

RAMA”K (R’ Moshe Cordevero) Tying https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/28154125/chinuch-bentzion-twerski.jpg 210 1032 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 7, 2020 March 20, 2023

Yemenite חוליות of 3-3-3-4 (which is the pattern of the RAMA”K (R’ Moshe Cordevero) as well as the Chinuch ), one white wind before and after, 5 knots, long Raavad string. חינוך pattern. R’ Bentzion Twerski likes having one string instead of two since the זוהר says to do one string. (The זוהר also says…

rhecht
January 6, 2020
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Vilna Gaon (GR”A) Method

Vilna Gaon (GR”A) Method https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17152547/gra-shot.jpg 227 837 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 6, 2020 October 20, 2022

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

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January 6, 2020
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Sefer HaChinuch Method

Sefer HaChinuch Method https://bluefringes.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/17152549/chinuch-shot.jpg 235 840 rhecht rhecht https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf4ea0e3d991f0dbaa91512dcb5916b2?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 6, 2020 March 3, 2022

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

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