Rabbi Yitzchak Brand is a Charedi rabbi and prolific writer whose name is associated with strongly argued halachic and hashkafic positions that often sit outside the standard party line. Born in Zurich in 1949, he learned in Yeshivas Lucerne and later in Ponevezh after coming to Eretz Yisrael. After his marriage, he continued for many…
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Rabbi Re’em HaCohen doesn’t just teach Torah—he builds frameworks that hold Torah and modern life together in one steady breath. Born in Jerusalem in 1957, he’s spent decades at the heart of Israel’s Religious Zionist world, shaping minds and communities with clarity and conviction. As Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Otniel and Rabbi of the Otniel…
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There are rabbanim who teach, and then there are those who carry entire communities through the daily grind of halacha with quiet strength. Rabbi Meir Gavriel Elbaz is one of those rare few doing both—and doing it with grace. As the Rav of Ohel Simcha Sephardic Congregation in Kew Garden Hills, Rabbi Elbaz is a…
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He claimed he has written a 300 page teshuvah going through all the issues. It took him more than a month to write it. He concludes the murex is the real chilazon according to Halacha and it should be worn. He originally was against wearing techelet but he decided to learn the sugya properly and…
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Rav Moshe Shternbuch shlit”a’s position on contemporary Techeiles appears to have changed considerably over the years. Earlier on, he was strongly opposed to wearing it. A talmid who learned in his yeshiva for three years relates that in 5777, when he asked about beginning to wear Techeiles, Rav Shternbuch responded firmly that there was no…
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Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach zt”l was born in 1935 in the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood of Yerushalayim. For those who know the city, that name already says something—it’s a place where old-world Torah life still hums quietly behind stone walls. He was the son of HaGaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l, one of the towering poskim…
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Head and founder of Machon Hamikdash. He has always been a proponent of Murex Tekhelet and believes it is the authentic one, however, he leans towards the Tifferet Yisrael’s notion the any fast blue dye would be kosher. Therefore he is not opposed to wearing Radzyn Tekhelet. All the beggadim at Machon Hamikdash though, are…
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Joel Guberman told me the following: He wore Rambam 7 with knots and not Rambam 13 with knots, He was not a proponent of making it well known, and He wore Techeiles on his Tallis Kattan and not Tallis Gadol for Yuhara reasons. For that matter he was also personally against wearing even white Tzitzis…
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To quote from Ben’s Tallit Shop: “Why don’t more Ashkenazim tie techelet according to the Tosafos? One reason might be found in a responsa written by HaRav Moshe Mordechai Carp in 5772, where he notes that you cannot use a techelet string in place of white, therefore if halacha is not like the Tosafot, you…
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