Posted on 09/19/2018 7:00:22 AM PDT by marshmallow
Forty-nine times the Bible mentions a perfect, pure blue, a color so magnificent and transcendent that it was all but impossible to describe.
Yet, for most of the last 2,000 years, nobody has known exactly what “biblical blue” — called tekhelet in Hebrew — actually looked like or how it could be re-created.
At the time of the Second Temple, which towered above Jerusalem until it was destroyed by the Romans, a blue dye of the same name was used to color the fabric used in the clothing of the high priests. Jewish men are still commanded to use a tekhelet-tinted thread in the knotted fringes of their prayer shawls, though what that might look like remained unclear for years.
Maimonides, the medieval Sephardic philosopher, described tekhelet as being the color of “the clear noonday sky.”
Rashi, the 11th century French rabbi and scholar, said it was “the color of the evening sky.”
Tekhelet was “the most prized color you could attain,” says Amanda Weiss, director of Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum.
A possible clue to the ingredients that combined to make tekhelet came from the Talmud, the canonical body of rabbinic texts, in which a man named Abaye asked an elder “this thread of tekhelet, how do you dye it?” He was told that “the blood of the snail and chemicals” (apparently caustic soda or sodium carbonate) had to be boiled together to create the dye.
It was not much to go on.
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Yet in the USA, there is a plant called the indigo flower which produces a blue color.
Microsoft used that color on their “BSOD”.
On a similar note:
Hmm, perhaps it is all caused by a conspiracy. There could be a group behind it, a nefarious group of men. Let’s call them the “Blue Man Group”.
Most collectors consider Plancheite in its rare crystal form and found in the Congo, as the most vivid blue to be found on earth.
Here's a starting point from a digital point of view. I'm a retired tech writer who put together many illustrations.
In your favorite drawing program, start with these settings:
RGB - R=0, G=0, B=169
HSB - H=240, S=100, B=66.27
CMYK - C=97, M=94.12, Y=0, K=0
I used these in an illustration about Jewish Rabbis.
Bookmark! Thank you!
Serious as in “rigid”.
I’m listening to a podcast series right now called “The Naked Bible” with the teacher being Michael Heis. Right now we’re going through Leviticus. It’s really good. the guy has amazing bible, language and history credentials.
His view of much of the “law” in the OT is that it was designed by men, for men.
Cool story.
That doesn't automatically make it bad. Women had their own universe of pregnancy, nursing, homemaking and handcrafts.
That doesn’t automatically make it bad. Women had their own universe of pregnancy, nursing, homemaking and handcrafts.
Interesting. Bookmark
Durable blue was a puzzle for a long while worldwide.
Murex dye:
http://www.google.com/search?q=snail%20blue%20phoenician
Western hemisphere:
http://www.google.com/search?q=secret+of+mayan+blue
People see it without realizing, because it's the Windows default color for highlighted text. Copy, then paste (glue). Like the concept of see and do (repeat, imitate).
Glued. Bonded. Intertwined like tzitzit. People have forgotten how to do that, being so busy with their faces facing an impersonal screen. Irony. Windows to the soul.
Smurfs perhaps? :)
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