[Avodah] tcheilet reminders?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 05:46:23AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> If you were given a white tallit and asked to add an element from scratch
> to remind you of tcheilet, what would you do and why?

I would re-tie with murex dyed strings. <grin>

I said it like that, rather than saying "with tekheiles" because I
am not insisting that we identified tekheiles correctly for this
move to make sense.

Say you tie 1 string out of 8 (1/2 out of 4), Rambam style. None
of your white strings are colored blue, for sure. Just an instead-of-
tekhieles string.

You don't claim it's definitely tekheiles if you don't think it is,
and you don't violate the gemara about misrepsenting kaleh ilan.

You might be fulfilling the mitzvah. And if not, you are at least
remembering tekheiles.


Or you could be talking about what we actually did:

When we continued wearing tellisos even after the stollus went out
of style, the stripes were not longer just because that's how fancier
stollae were made. And after centuries, later than Rembrandt!, different
communities settled on blue in memory of tekheiles or black in mourning
for it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

(PS: And those blue in memory of tekheiles stripes were on the tallis that
the Zionist flag committee started with. The Magen David was to keep the
flag, when hanging without a breeze, from looking like a white flag of
surrender. The tallis design was too plain.)

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