Tekhelet
Tekhelet (Hebrew: תְּכֵלֶת - English: blue-violet, or blue, or turquoise) is an expensive, blue dye that is mentioned many times in the Bible. It was used for the clothes of the high priests , for tapestries and the shop threads of the tallit . According to rabbinical tradition, the color was last extracted in ancient Israel from a marine mollusc called chilazon . After the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans, the actual identity of the dye source was lost, which is why the threads are mostly white today. Various animals were suspected to be the source of the blue dye, including the common squid ( Sepia officinalis ), a raft snail of the genus Janthina ( Röding 1798 ), or the blunt prickly snail ( Hexaplex trunculus).
Individual evidence
- ^ Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses: A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary, and Notes. New York: Schocken Books, 1995 .
- ^ Techelet (Blue Thread) . In: Tzitzit and Tallis . Chabad Media Center. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
- ↑ Chaim Miller: חמשה חומשי תורה . קול מנחם ,, 2006, ISBN 978-1-934152-01-0 , p. 967 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2019]).
- ↑ Gil Zohar: Fringe Benefits - Kfar Adumim factory revives the lost command of tekhelet . www.ou.org. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
- ^ Isaak HaLevy Herzog : The Royal Purple and the Biblical Blue
- ↑ Dietmar Schuth: The color blue: attempt of a characteristic, Münster 1995