Parshas Shelach: Adventures with the Radziner Rebbe: The Search for Techeles

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

of adventure you have to be willing to uh to get a little risky and go out there and uh you have to get your scuba gear ready because we're going down to the depths of the sea to on a special mission to try to uh understand and discover a detail of a mitzvah that uh what we'd like to investigate is to see do we still have access to this detail or has it been lost from us by avenues if this goes well we're going to be doing this for many weeks okay this is a very substantial topic and really to me one of the most interesting topics and it's a narrative and it's a story but along the way we're going to hopefully bezos hashem uh gain a lot of yadia satohira okay the passage says israel speak to the jewish should say to them via him sits this they should make for themselves sits this on the corners of their garments for all generations and they should put on the corner that sits this pasil takaylas a strand of tekhelas so of course we know there are two details of the mitzvah of sitsis there's a love on and there is the treyless most people today if you look at their tzitzis it looks all white yet we know there certainly was a time when part of the midst of sitzis was to

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1. 0:30of adventure you have to be willing to uh to get a little risky and go…
2. 6:10to the defense of the radzina rabba rabbit they all defended the work of the usami…
3. 12:35we know that us compared to the earlier generations were nothing so if they didn't look…
4. 18:50marv rabbi say is it worthwhile for us to follow the razina reba down to italy…
5. 25:17so interesting so there is seems to be a kabbalistic reason that you're not allowed to…
6. 31:32sitsis but we know tikkeles was nigna says the marsha this is going on the levan…
7. 38:10is commenting on the fact that wait a second we're going to die according to some…
8. 44:36avada navada he says api kabbalah there's different types of trelas and the trelas of lava…
9. 50:46imagination of all the naturalists and all the scientists and all the ancients he even writes…
10. 56:58it's not really analogous because there you're just treating the hides but ultimately you're washing it…

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