A Thread of Blue How the lost colour of the Torah was found again, and why it may belong on your tzitzis Twice a day, every day, we say that the Torah asked for a thread of techeiles on the corner of the garment. Then we look down at the corner and there is no blue…
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Ein HaTecheiles is Rav Binyomin Zev Horvitz’s focused treatment of the color of Techeiles. The kuntres deals with a question that became surprisingly central in the modern Techeiles discussion: what color is the Torah’s Techeiles supposed to be? Rav Horvitz argues that the plain mesorah, the Gemara’s comparison to the sea and sky, the Rishonim,…
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Chosam Shel Zahav is Rav Binyomin Zev Horvitz’s kuntres on the identification of the Chilazon used for Techeiles. Its main argument is that the Murex trunculus, known in Hebrew as the argamon keheh kotzim, fits the evidence for the Chilazon of Chazal. The sefer gathers the major lines of evidence in one place: the Tosefta…
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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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Rabbi Yisroel Rosenberg’s Halacha Sefer on Techeiles. Download PDF
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ספר העיטור by יצחק בן אבא מארי Download PDF Hilchos Tefillin starts on page 122 (107 – ND) of the PDF, and Tzitzis starts on page 145 (130) and goes to 169 (154). Manuscripts: Vatican: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.ebr.143 Manuscript 1 HebrewManuscripts_org_1764 Manuscript 2 HebrewManuscripts_org_1765
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A wonderful comic book on Techeiles created and illustrated by Joel Guberman’s wife Nomi. Download – Abba Gave Me Blue
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R. Eliyahu Tavger’s comprehensive investigation into tzitzit and tekhelet. (Hebrew) Download here
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R. Yehuda Rock’s work dealing with various issues surrounding tekhelet. (Hebrew) PDF Download: Eved Hamelech Another Version: Eved Hamelech
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Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as religious law, mysticism, eschatology, as well as clothing and literature, this book contends that, by way of a protracted process, the color blue has constituted a means through…
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