I’ve personally heard this from at least four independent sources. If someone can get more info about string ratio, tying method, and a picture, that would greatly help. -Rafi Hecht From Yehoshua Yankelewitz: “My friend Refoel Holiday (originally from Monsey, he learned in Zilberman’s in the OC for a while) was with his Rosh Kollel…
read moreAv beis din in Teveria.
read moreJoel 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…
read moreTo 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…
read moreIn Bnei Brak. A well-known Yemenite Posek who heads the Yoreh Deah kashrut agency.
read moreRav, Zichron Yaakov of Lakewood. He wore Tosafos with the Chinuch pattern, tied for him by R’ Yisroel Barkin, a nephew of R’ Belsky.
read moreR’ Rappaport was one of the people that started the whole process going. Without him it’s hard to say if the rest would be wearing Techeiles today.
read moreR’ Moshe David Tendler is the son-in-law of R’ Moshe Feinstein ZT”L, professor of biology/rosh yeshiva at YU, and medical expert. He is someone who goes “against the grain” in medical opinion (such as using a tube for Metzitzah b’Peh), and is one Rabbi who has visited the Temple Mount multiple times in the past.…
read moreRabbi Hershel Schachter is Rosh Hayeshiva of YU, one of the poskim of the Orthodox Union regarding Kashrus, and a former talmid of R’ Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (The Rav). He pre-ordered a set for as soon Ptil Tekhelet was in production. R’ Schachter has tweaked his tzitzis numerous times. At the time of this post,…
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