Techeiles Shiur | Rabbi Yehuda Levi | Part 1

In this class, Rabbi Yehuda Levi discusses the Murex trunculus as a candidate for the Chilazon.

Things that were discussed in this Shiur:

- What are the requirements by Chazal for Techeiles?
- What is a chilazon? What are the origins of the word?
- Why Rav Issac Haleivi Herzog believed that the Murex trunculus was in fact the chilazon
- Nine proofs that prove that the mutex trunculus was, in fact, the Chilazon of Chazal

See part 2 for more content on this subject such as:
- Questions that people use to negate the use of Murex trunculus for use of techeiles:
- Don't we need a Mesorah to identify the Chilazon?
- What about the Sifri that says that techeiles was Nignaz?
- How can Trapping a snail be considered Tzad on Shabbos?
- How many strings of techeiles and how many white strings are required?
- The myriad ways to tie the techeiles according to all the opinions
Watch Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHHN...

Given over Zoom to Bais Dovid Pilzno on May 10, 2020.

Thank you to R' Shmuel Modes and Rav Yehoshua Gehrzi for arranging the Shiur. Thank you to R' Meir Hellmann, R' Yehoshua Yankelewitz, R' Pinchos Abramowitz, R' Shlomo Meir Eisenman, and R' Yisrael Barkin for help with putting together the material. Thank you to Rafi Hecht for help with the livestream and for the wonderful Techeiles Facebook group. Thank you to R' Dovid Aronin, Professor Shaul Kaplan, and R' Dov Kagan for your participation and input!