Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:42:57 -0500 From: “Steve. Katz” <katzco@sprintmail.com> Subject: T’cheles Revisited I know a number of gentlemen who wear t’cheles on their talis gadol and not on their talis katan. I also know a number of gentlemen who wear t’cheles on the talis katan and not on their talis gadol. Who has…
read more Message: 7 From: Saul.Z.New…@kp.org Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:42:03 -0700 Subject: [Avodah] tcheilet http://jewishworker.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-you-wear-because_16.html safek doraisah lechumrah? Should you wear תכלת because ספק דאורייתא לחומרא? The answer would seem to be yes. Many poskim today assume that the techeles that has been discovered is at least a ספק and therefore since tzitzis is דאורייתא…
read more Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:48:48 +0000 From: “Seth Mandel” <sethm37@hotmail.com> Subject: [none] I had intended to post on Avodah a list of my responses to the identification of t’kheles with Murex trunculus indigo dye. My thanks and congratulations to R. Mendel Singer, who in his post last week not only covered most of my…
read more Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 23:16:24 +0200 From: Eli Linas <linaseli@mail.netvision.net.il> Subject: Techelles Bs”d Does anyone know why Rav Kruspadoi is thusly named? I have a suspicion that it wasn’t his real name. Rabbi Purple? I assume there’s a story behind it, but haven’t ever found anything. Eli Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:42:53 -0500…
read more Message: 5 From: Joel Rich Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:46:23 +0200 Subject: [Avodah] tcheilet reminders? If you were given a white tallit and asked to add an element from scratch to remind you of tcheilet, what would you do and why? Bsorot Tovot Joel Rich Message: 6 From: Micha Berger Date: Wed, 15 Jan…
read more Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:53:21 -0400 From: Isaac A Zlochower <zlochoia@bellatlantic.net> Subject: techelet The reproduction of Dr. Singers critique of the techelet produced by the P’til Techelet organization and the subsequent discussions on this list have, I believe, advanced the quest for the “real” techelet. Although I am not persuaded by most of the…
read more Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:00:29 +0200 From: “Mrs. Gila Atwood” <gatwood@netvision.net.il> Subject: techelet A recent poster mentioned that certain Chassidic Rebbes might hold that it’s good enough to use techeles which may not be from the original chilazon because it’s enough just to have the right colour in a mystic/spiritual sense? Is that what…
read more Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:42:08 -0400 From: Nachman Levine <nachmanl@juno.com> Subject: Re: Silver Atarot R. Moshe DovBer Rivkin, “Ashkavta DiRebi”, ff. 17 discusses the Chabad custom of not wearing an Atarah on a Talis Gadol; he notes that Chasidei Chabad ARE Makpid to have their Tzitzis in front of them (evidently based on the…
read more Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:55:59 -0600 From: “brent” <fallingstar613@hotmail.com> Subject: techeles Clearly RSRH is saying that techeiles is blue, argaman is purple wool. That said, I have no idea how he holds this, as the definition of techeiles as blue wool is assumed by chazal in defining mitzvas tzitzis. I hope b”N to post…
read more Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:36:45 -0400 From: “Yosef Gavriel and Shoshanah M. Bechhofer” <sbechhof@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Subject: Techeles There is an expert on the list who has a wonderful essay that resides in an early version on my hard drive on the topic, Rabbi Chaim Twerski. If he grants permission, I would be happy to post…
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