Reply To: Techeiles 🔵❎🐌☑️🐟

You are absolutely right. There is no reason to assume that domeh l’rakia is green. But as I have explained, that’s not a problem. Nowhere in Talmudic era literature(as far as I know except for one medrash in which the mefarshim change the girsa back to how it is everywhere else,) does it say that Techeiles is Domeh L’rakia. It is always prefaced by Domeh L’yam V’yam Domeh L’rakia. Now I think evryone here agreed a long time ago that the Yam can be blue-green or even green. I have no problem with saying that green is domeh to blue or saying that blue is domeh to green. The problem is saying that blue is domeh to green which is in turn Domeh to blue. According to you that is exactly what the Medrash and Yerushalmi are doing, wheras according to me the Medrash and Yerushalmi are merely expressing a journey across green and blue on the color spectrum.