tekhelet

Rachel–yes, one could theoretically use non-snail dye to get the color, but then it’s not tekhelet which is, among other things, defined by being this particular kind of dye.

DIY mitzvah gear - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

She finishes with a rational argument — there is no logic in the commandments taught by Moses — exemplifying this claim with the tekhelet of fringed garments.

Wife of Korah: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

If you think that tekhelet is important to fulfill the commandment, then make cloaks entirely of tekhelet, and cover all those in your band in cloaks of tekhelet, without fringes.

Wife of Korah: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

P'til Tekhelet Science meets the Talmud: how tekhelet, the ancient blue dye of Jewish ritual, was rediscovered.

Archive 2002-04-01 Ray Girvan 2002

P'til Tekhelet Science meets the Talmud: how tekhelet, the ancient blue dye of Jewish ritual, was rediscovered.

Wonderful & weird science Ray Girvan 2002

He said that when he first photographed the fabric scrap with the tekhelet dye, "the L.C.D. on my camera literally radiated."

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Yuval Sherlow, a prominent rabbi in Israel's modern Orthodox circles - where wearing tekhelet in ritual fringes has become increasingly popular, as it has in American ones - agreed.

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What was known about tekhelet pronounced t-CHELL-et was that the Talmud said it was produced from the secretion of the sea snail, which is still found on Israeli beaches.

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Not so, according to an Israeli scholar who has a new analysis: tekhelet appears to have been closer to a bluish purple.

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P'til Tekhelet, which means "tekhelet string," was formed to raise awareness of the color.

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