The history of the Jewish people is a chronicle of endeavor –- the endeavor for purpose, the endeavor to perfect the world. So concludes the daily liturgy with what might rightly be called our mission ...

For over a thousand years, the source of Biblical “tekhelet” was unknown, and we were unable to dye the fringes of our tzitzit with the special dye. Recently, however, this practice has been renewed ...

Ptil Tekhelet sells tzitzit, or fringes attached to the corners of Jewish prayer shawls, colored with dye from the Murex trunculus snail Courtesy of Ptil Tekhelet/Moshe Caine Thousands of years ago, ...

The Bible requires Jews to tie a tekhelet (blue) cord as part of their tzitzit (fringes on traditional prayer shawl and everyday undergarment). Rabbinic sources of antiquity insisted that the tekhelet ...

The Jewish commandment to tie tzitzit (fringes) to four-cornered garments, as a reminder of all the commandments, includes the precept to tie a thread dyed "tekhelet," a shade of sky-blue. The secret ...