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The Chazon Nachum quotes the Mileches Shlomo who quotes ?”? ??????? that it’s ???? ?????? ???”?. The Chazon Nachum does not quote the very next words of the Mileches Shlomo where he quotes the Even Ezra who also says ????. It is abundantly clear that the Even Ezra is talking about the dye not the chilazon. If the Mileches Shlomo quoted these two pshatim one after the other, obviously (at least according to the Mileches Shlomo) they are referring to the same thing. It would be rather presumtuous to claim that one is referring to the chilazon and the other is referring to the actual Techeiles. Furthermore, why would a Mefaresh tell us what color the chilazon is which has absolutely no relvance to the Mishna at hand. Finally, The Chazon Nachum’s ketzas kashya is based on a Tosfos which uses a different ??”? word. Now unless you can prove that both Rashi and the Even Ezra (and any other Rishon that may have used the word ????)meant blue, then it’s not a kashya on ?”? ???????. And the Chazon Nachum answers that it seems that he must have been talking about the chilazon and he knew the color of the chilazon from Sod Hashem L’yrayav.

In summary: The Chazon Nachum seems to be arguing with the Mileches Shlomo, based on a question that does not seem so compelling*, and in order to make sense out of it is mechadesh that Hashem revealed the color of the chilazon to ?”? ???????. I don’t know if that is a “wipe away all opposition” source.

*obviously I am only using such a lashon to make my point, and should not chas v’shalom in any way be construed as a lack of respect and awe for gedolei hameforshim.