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For those of you who don’t accept rayos from rishonim because they often mean the opposite of what they say, let’s take a look at the gedolim in the late 1800’s when the Radzyner Rebbe first propagated his Techeiles.

RADZYNER REBBE – clearly held mesorah is not an issue

BEIS HALEVI – neither of the two sides of the machlokes about his opinion about mesorah have anything to do with the issue of mesorah that you raise.

R’ YITZCHOK ELCHONON SPECTOR – Agreed b’etzem to techeiles but didn’t wear it himself because he felt it would hurt a matter of pikuach nefesh that was involved in. Obviously he held mesorah is not an issue.

YESHUOS MALKO – Said he doesn’t want to go through the inyan because he didn’t want to come out that you have to wear Techeiles for political reasons. Obviously he didn’t hold that mesorah is an issue.

R’ AKIVA YOSEF SHLESSINGER – Said that R’ Yehoshua Leib Diskin and R’ Shmuel Salant agreed to him on the chiyuv of Techeiles but the Rabbis in vilna told R’ Yehoshua Leib Diskin to stop getting involved in the topic. Obviously they held that Mesorah is not an issue.

R’ YEHOSHUA LEIB DISKIN – see above

R’ SHMUEL SALANT – see above

MAHARSHAM – Wore the Radzyner’s techeiles. Obviously he held that mesorah is not an issue.

R’ ITZELE PONOVIZHER – wore the Radzyner’s techeiles. Obviously he held that mesorah is not an issue.

We have at least nine gedolei hora’a from the late 1800’s that clearly held that mesorah is not an issue.