Reply To: Techeiles 🔵❎🐌☑️🐟

Granted we normally pasken like bavli over yerushalmi. However in this case it is not a halachic machlokes nor even a machlokes at all. Both the Ammoraim in Bavel and Eretz Yisroel had the same Techeiles, in fact the Ammoraim in Bavel probably imported Techeiles from Eretz Yisroel. There was no dispute as to what Techeiles was. However, the Talmud Bavli and the Talmud Yerushalmi describe the color of Techeiles differently. (There are Midrashim as well that say Domeh L’asavim, like the Yerushalmi does.) Obviously they are describing the same color. The question then becomes “which color bests fits into both descriptions”. The Rishonim who speak about the color cannot be authoritative, because none of them had Techeiles. However, what we can glean from the Rishonim is that they felt that there interpretaions were consistent with the Talmudic era literature.