Reply To: Techeiles 🔵❎🐌☑️🐟

“my point about bais halevi is that all he needed was a sibah why it stopped and to this the ramban is an answer since he says there were gezeiros.”

I hear. But why limaaseh did the acharonim not make techeiles from the murex? The gezeiros ended hundreds of years ago. Unless you say that by the time the gezeiros had ended they forgot how to get the dye to turn blue or even how to make the dye altogether. Or that they knew the whole time but they were never able to actually do it.

But it is a bit odd that the midrash would say that techeiles was nignaz if in fact nothing about the metzious or knowledge had changed. It doesn’t sound like the midrash is saying that we have the chilazon and know how to make techeiles but we can’t do it because of gezeiros. Unless you say that it was in fact forgotten/lost and the shiltei hagiborim rediscovered it.