It’s Raavad ratio, with every 3 winds Sepharadi style separated by a double knot, similar to how R’ Hershel Schachter 1.0 had been done. This complies with making a knot after each Chulya.
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It’s Raavad ratio, with every 3 winds Sepharadi style separated by a double knot, similar to how R’ Hershel Schachter 1.0 had been done. This complies with making a knot after each Chulya.
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The weekday tying method Rabbi Sofer personally uses is as follows, with regular Ashkenazi Winds and 7-8-11-13: 7: 3 W 4 B 8: 3 W 5 B 11: 5 W 6 B 13: 6 B 7 W His rationale is as follows: He wants the Techeiles to have more Chashivus than the lavan chulyos, but…
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The Krechnif tying method is very similar to Belzer Chulyos, but the difference is that when looping the Shamash through the middle, one loops it twice over. It’s almost like a windsor tie knot versus half a windsor.
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The Magen Avraham of Trisk holds that the chulyos need to start full after each double knot, as opposed to completing the previous Chulya broken off. In Belz, there was an argument between R’ Yissachar Dov from Belz and his son, the succeeding Belzer Rav, when they do the Chulyos, do they do it 3-3-1…
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The Ribnitzer Rebbe used to tie his own Tzitzis and he ordered his Chulyos differently from the left and right sides. Here is the order. Buy The Ribnitzer Rebbe's Israel Bookshop Publications Bio on Amazon Today!Available in: US | CA FLFRBLBR xxxxxxxx 14343 3434 xxxxxxxx 22222 3333 3333 xxxxxxxx 32222 3333 3333 3333 xxxxxxxx 41111…
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מנחות דף לט עמוד א, ד”ה לא יפחות לפי שתכלת דומה לים וים דומה לרקיע ואנן דלית לן תכלת לא קפדינן בהא והא נמי דאמרינן צריך לקשור על כל חוליא וחוליא היינו כדי שיהא ניכר התכלת ומה שאנו נוהגים חמשה קשרים פירש בקונטרס גבי ציצית שקולה כנגד כל המצות לפי שציצית עולה ת”ר וח’ חוטין…
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R’ Hershel Schachter learns the Rambam’s way of separating chulyos by knots. While R’ Schachter wears Tosafos ratio, some tie like him but will use different string ratios, in this case Rambam ratio which is 1/8 Techeiles/Lavan.
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This is YKVK (26) with Techeiles, but Yidy Fuxman of Knot the Tzitzit believes that some Teimanim will end off, not with a double knot, but with a Teimani Chulya of 2 white winds forming a distinct knot. An open questin is, why doesn’t the tying begin with a white wind which the Gemara is…
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This uses a variation of Raavad tying. It’s al pi Kabbala 7-7-7-7 but the second chulya is all white, since the Techeiles ones are Domeh L’Rakia/Shamayim, and the remainder makes it add up to 28 which has some Koach. Some Yemenite Jews will also do 28 (even though 26 is YKVK) since there is some…
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The Magen Avraham of Trisk holds that the chulyos need to start full after each double knot, as opposed to completing the previous Chulya broken off. In Belz, there was an argument between R’ Yissachar Dov from Belz and his son, the succeeding Belzer Rav, when they do the Chulyos, do they do it 3-3-1…
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