Zephaniah Drori,Chief Rabbi Links of London hot Pink Heart Charm Kiryat Shmona in Northern Israel,and Herschel Schachter,a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Herzog Elchanan Theological Seminary at New York's Yeshiva University are both keen tekhelet wearers and advocates.It has also excited some Jewish scientists,including the Nobel Prize winning Cornell University theoretical chemist Roald Hoffmann,who has said that"a chemistry that came from the people should be returned to the people."The group now sells,packets monthly,each containing enough strings to tie one garment and costing.The beach Links of London I Charm was intended to increase awareness of the organization,and Navon hopes to run more workshops during Passover. Participants were impressed by what they saw.For Phil Schneider,a tourist from New York,the workshop was"another"example of how,in Israel,you can find the meaning in ritual it becomes real,not just pure Links of London."Ovadia de Israel,from Jerusalem,said that as a tekhelet wearer,he found the session exciting."You say the passage about tekhelet every day during prayers,and I felt not right saying it but not doing it.Now my actions connect better with what I read." Bathers on a northern Israel beach witnessed a strange spectacle in late September,when a group of Orthodox Jews arrived,discussed a number of talmudic passages,and waded into the water,wearing Links of London J Charm,to unravel a biblical mystery. As well as demanding that"the Children of Israel make tzitzit on the corners of their garments,"the Bible calls for these fringes to contain a thread dyed a particular shade of blue,called tekhelet. But for more than,years,the source of the dye for this color has been a mystery. Roman emperors from the first century BCE onward wanted tekhelet reserved as a status symbol for the governing classes,meaning that it became progressively more difficult for Jews to obtain it.
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