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Sam2: It’s a machlokes what the bais halevi said. The Radzyner Rebbe printed in his sefer the response that he received from the bais halevi’s camp, which said that if the suggested chilazon has always been around and it was known how to dye (blue) with it and our ancestors didn’t use it then that is as if we have a mesora that this creature is not the chilazon. That is a far cry from saying that we need a mesorah to identify the chilazon. However, The Rav claimed that the Bais Halevi actually held that you need a mesorah to identify the chilazon. Now first of all, even within the Brisker dynasty this is not quite agreed upon. Second of all, R’ Elyashiv said that the Radzyner’s version seems to be the right version based on how the halachic system works. Even The Rav’s Talmid R’ Hershel Shachter disagreed with him on this. So for all you guys who on every other topic consider the Rav to be an apikores but suddenly by Techeiles want to follow his shitta, just bear in mind that this shitta has nothing to do with Techeiles. The Rav held that you need a mesorah to identify anything. This was already spoken about at length in one of the other techeiles threads in regards to rice ayain sham.