Rabbi Roth, being related to Baruch Sterman, has been an early adopter of Techeiles, and distributes wholesale string sets across North America to various Judaica stores. From the Jewish Link: Rabbi Roth hails from Brooklyn, and was ordained in 1972 by the Brooklyn Rabbinical Seminary. He has been a resident of Passaic for the past…
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HaRav Binyomin Zev Horvitz is a Bnei Brak-based talmid chacham and author best known for his serious halachic work on modern-day Techeiles. In a subject that can get noisy very quickly — part Gemara, part mesorah, part archaeology, part chemistry, and part communal nerves — Rav Horvitz took the quieter route. He sat down with…
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R’ Avrohom Gross is a Talmid Chacham living in Jerusalem who has researched Techeiles in depth over the last few years. He has been an integral part of the Chabura and issued a series of shiurim in support of the murex trunculus as the Chilazon shel Techeiles. R’ Gross is presently working on an in-depth…
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Rabbi Meir Hellman published Levush HaAron, a thin kuntreiss on Techeiles, addressing many of the questions and providing quick, solid answers to each of them. In 2013 R’ Yisroel Belsky ZT”L wrote a haskama to it. At the time no such book existed for this sugya. Rabbi Hellman also gave a presentation at an Agudas…
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Some people go deep into Torah. Others dive into science. Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky? He does both—without needing to come up for air. As a professor of neuroscience at Bar-Ilan University, his day job involves studying eye movement and the mysteries of human cognition. It’s serious, complex stuff. But what makes Zivotofsky unique isn’t just…
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R’ Eliyahu Tavger’s father in law, and the former manager of Camp Agudah. R’ Kaufman initially convinced R’ Chaim Yisroel Belsky ZT”L to wear Techeiles.
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From https://tekhelet.net/SpeakersBureau.htm (slightly modified): Joel Guberman, OTR/L Joel Guberman is co-founder and director of the Ptil Tekhelet Association. Joel was responsible for taking the initiative to organize the Ptil Tekhelet Foundation for the purpose of educating Am Yisrael about the new-found candidate for tekhelet as well as making the dye widely available to all interested in acquiring it for…
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A Rebbi at Yeshivas Har Etzion. He was an early adopter. From https://etzion.org.il/en/authors/rav-yehuda-rock: Alumnus of Har Etzion, teacher of Tanakh and member of Beit Hillel. Author of Eved HaMelekh (on Tzitzit and Tekhelet), Kol Melakha (on Melekhet Machshevet), and the new Achat Diber – on methodology in Tanakh and on parashot Bereishit-Noach.
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הרב יחזקאל טופורוביץ The dialogue between his father R’ Amichai and R’ Chaim Kanievsky ZT”L: הרב ע.ט.: ״…נגנז – הרמב״ם והסמ״ג והרי״ף לא הזכירוהו להלכה בכלל, רק שנגנז לשעתו, שעד כמה שנגנז, נגנז…״ הגרח״ק זצ״ל: ״זייט געזונט – אתה מחוייב ללבוש.״ חתן הגרח״ק זצ״ל: ״הוא [הרב ע.ט.] עוסק בזה שלוש שנים יומם ולילה…״ הגרח״ק זצ״ל:…
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