A few young men from the Haredi Yeshiva Tiferet Ha’Talmud on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, under the leadership of Rabbi Brachiahu Shinkar, decided to wear tzitzis (fringes) with techelet (azure thread) ...
Blue is a significant color in Judaism. The Talmud speaks about the mitzvah of tzitzit and the blue string, the ptil techelet. It says that the color resembles the ocean, which resembles the sky, ...
When my father offered to weave blue techelet threads onto my tallit, I was so surprised that I said no. It took me several minutes to re-consider my reflexive reaction, but it took me another year ...
Parashat Shelach ends with the commandment of tzitzit, and is followed immediately with the story of Korach. What is the connection between the two? The most obvious connection is the idea that ...
It was the color of the sea, the sky, the divine sapphire-hewn Throne of Glory, according to the Tannaite sage Rabbi Meir. It was a color used in the Jewish temples, the hue of its high priests’ robes ...
A full century after it was published, the vision of Israel’s first Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog, has come full circle. The definitive location of the ...
The commandment of tzitzit is that the threads of the tzitzit should be white and techelet, as it is said: “And they shall make for themselves tzitzit (from white threads) on the corners of their ...
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