Home Last Updated: February 16, 2004 NEW: Rav Shlomo Miller, Shlit”a, of Toronto has written a teshuva against the murex snail techeiles. A typed version appears in the Documents page. Has the long lost chilazon, source of the biblical blue techeiles dye been rediscovered? Much has been written in recent times about the murex trunculus…
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Understanding the Criteria for the Chilazon Mendel E. Singer, Ph.D. , 2000 This article originally appeared in the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School sponsored journal, the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, Vol. 40, Sukkot 2001. Reprinted with permission. Bio: Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Background The Torah commands us…
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From Wikipedia: Yechiel Yitzchok Perr (1935[1]– May 3,[2] 2024) was an American rabbi. He was the founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Derech Ayson (Yeshiva of Far Rockaway) in Far Rockaway, New York. Biography Yechiel Yitzchak Perr was born and raised in South Ozone Park, Queens, where his father, Menachem Mendel Perr served as a…
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This is a decidedly anti-murex piece. It even has a Haskama by R’ Shlomo Miller. Download PDF R’ Yisroel Rosenberg wrote a rejoinder here: תגובה לקונטרס לחלזון במשנת הראשונים
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