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Chai:
Does anyone here wear them , i have them for my talit and tzitit , (murex snail) petil techeilet sells them ,however i wear a half a string because the strictest authority , rambam says the minimum is a half a sting in case the color is not correct however if it is correct then you get the mitzvah it’s a win win situation. :)
muman613:
I would love to have a fringe of blue on my tzittzits... This mitzvah I have done with much pride for the last six years, since I did Teshuva in 2003. I was not aware that we know the correct animal from which to create the blue dye from.
http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/150,2540/Why-do-certain-people-have-a-blue-dyed-fringe-on-their-tzitzit.html
--- Quote ---Why do certain people have a blue-dyed fringe on their tzitzit?
The Torah commands us (Numbers 15:38) to place a blue (“techailet”) fringe on the corner of our four-cornered garments. Our sages tell us that this fringe must be dyed with the blood of a (shell?) fish called “chilazon.” This rare fish is a denizen of the Mediterranean Sea.
After the Jewish people were exiled from the Holy Land, the chilazon was no longer available. Therefore, for many centuries Jews wore tzitzit without techailet.
In the past century, there were certain venerable rabbis who claimed to have identified the chilazon. Since then, tzitzit with techailet has made a comeback, and one can often spot people sporting such tallitot. There are many, however, who have cast doubts on the re-identification of the chilazon.
Rabbi Sholom DovBer, the fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch, maintained that according to the teachings of Kabbalah, the chilazon will not reemerge until the coming of the Messiah.
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And from Chabad @ http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/529771/jewish/Why-do-some-have-a-blue-string-in-their-tzitzit.htm
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Why do some people have a blue string among their tzitzit fringes?
By Menachem Posner
We read in the Torah:1 "Speak to the children of Israel and you shall say to them that they shall make for themselves fringes (tzitzit) on the corners of their garments, throughout their generations, and they shall affix a thread of techelet on the fringe of each corner."
The verse contains two commandments; one it to affix (white) fringes on the corners of a four-cornered garment, and the other is to add a thread of techelet to each corner. These two commandments are independent of each other. When techelet is available we are enjoined to add a techelet fringe to the tzitzit, and when unavailable we fulfill the mitzvah with plain white fringes.
Techelet is wool dyed with the blood extracted from a sea animal called the chilazon.
So why is it not so common today to have a techelet fringe on the tallit or tzitzit? At a certain point in history, approximately 1000 years ago, the chilazon, which was always hard to come by -- to the extent that the Talmud2 tells us that it only surfaced once every seventy years -- became unavailable altogether. After a while, its exact identity became unknown.
There have been many who have tried to rediscover the identity of the chilazon. Most notably among them were the Radziner Rebbe, Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner (1839-1891) and Israeli Chief Rabbi Y.I. Herzog (1889-1959).
Rabbi Leiner maintained that the cuttlefish was the lost chilazon and proceeded to produce and distribute dye produced from this fish.
Recently, the marine snail Murex Trunculus has been identified as possibly being the elusive chilazon, and many use its dye.
Most communities, however, view the findings of these groups as uncertain, and therefore continue to wear only white fringes, awaiting the coming of Moshiach when Elijah himself will guide us in uncovering the identity of the chilazon.
Yours truly,
Rabbi Menachem Posner
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Chai:
they have found the likely suspect , and even if it is wrong , as long as you wear a half blue sting it wont matter if it not the right animal and if it is u get the mitzva ...plus it looks nice. this is one subject I'm well versed in feel free to ask anything
judeanoncapta:
--- Quote from: 18chai on April 01, 2009, 04:42:02 AM ---Does anyone here wear them , i have them for my talit and tzitit , (murex snail) petil techeilet sells them ,however i wear a half a string because the strictest authority , rambam says the minimum is a half a sting in case the color is not correct however if it is correct then you get the mitzvah it’s a win win situation. :)
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I wear tekheleth.
I know that the Rambam says you should only dye half a string. But he doesn't says that it is in case the color is not correct, he says that it is so that when it goes through the hole and is tyed it emerges looking like one string of blue and seven of white.
And even if the color is not right, you still fulfill the mitzvah.
Because the only color that makes the tzitzit invalid is actual indigo plant, that is it.
Chai:
no g-d forbid they hang it on the wall
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