[Avodah] yaroq

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:36:53AM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
:> I know Rashi says Techeilet is Yarok, which is similar to Carti. (Brachot
:> 9A on the mishna)

: Doesnt help since we are trying to find out the color of techelet.
: So this is circular reasoning

Yaroq kekarti means the color of a leek. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leeks_produce-1.jpg ,
it's green, the part above ground is a pretty dark green.

We also know yaroq kekarti is a different color than tekheiles, from the
definition of misheyaqir that says that it's when you can distinguish
those two colors.

-Micha

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