Rediscovered, Ancient Color Is Reclaiming Israeli Interest

New York Times ^ | February 28, 2011 | Dina Kraft

[firebrand]

Do you have a source for this? Worthy of a letter to the Times, if so.

[Quix]

FASCINATING.

THX.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Thanks for the ping! :-)

[Zionist Conspirator]

Exciting news if it's true, but one has to be careful. Most Gedolim reject the dye of the Petil Tekhelet organization.

The dye came from the chillazon, which washed up on shore only "once every seventy years." Whether or not they have actually identified the correct species is yet to be seen.

[jdlevy95]

Another challenge I heard is that the process they performed to produce the dye was repeatable with other crustaceans. I forgot the source but I believe I heard it from an amazing rov, Rabbi David Fink (a link to his tzitzis class, although I haven’t listened to it to see if he talks about techeyles. I wasn’t at this shiur but he lectured at my yeshiva: http://www.ytyh.org/audio/AudioShiurim/Fink/Fink-Tzititit-OC-S10.mp3 )

In general, (and one of the best things I learned from him) to pick and choose minhagim (customs) from different groups (wearing techeyles tzitzis like a zionist, a black hat like a charedi, a gartle (belt for prayer) like a chossid...) is problematic. How to define “problematic?” Ask your local orthodox rabbi...

[firebrand]

The article says “some time after” 70. That means a long time, not sometime. I wonder if the Times writer decided not to get into the issue of the Muslim conquest.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The red heifer has to be absolutely perfect, with no flaws or defects.

When the time is right, the correct red heifer will be born and the sacrifices will resume on the rebuilt third temple.

God says the temple will be rebuilt and there will be sacrifices and it will happen.

No doubt about it.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

I was listening to a radio interview the other day between two prophecy scholars and one told of how he had gone to Israel some years ago and asked how the Jews would recognize their Messiah when he arrives.

The response? "He will help us rebuild our temple".

I almost fell out of my chair. Rebuilding the temple could very well be part of the seven-year "peace" contract that the Antichrist confirms between Israel and the nations.

Unbelievable.

[dervish]

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[Ramius]

Interesting stuff. Does anybody know if the blue on the Israeli flag, then... is symbolic of that blue as used on ceremonial robes? or does it refer to something else?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Interesting stuff. Does anybody know if the blue on the Israeli flag, then... is symbolic of that blue as used on ceremonial robes? or does it refer to something else?

Yes, the article specifically states that is what the blue on the Israeli flag represents.

[Quix]

Yea. Love it.

Long my favorite color.

[Ramius]

Very cool. Thanks!!

[Ramius]

So... if they finally decide that the color blue was in fact different... will they change the flag? :-)

[papabrody]

Thank you for the ping. At least a crustacean has another use rather that being eaten by the goyim. Reading what the consensus among Orthodox/Hasidim is.........