New Videos: Grumbling & Tzitziot

The biblical children of Israel were a bunch of complainers. This sin kept them out of YHVH’s Promised Land. Are we any different today? Better think twice! YHVH doesn’t like hard-hearted, ungrateful grumblers. This video discusses lessons that can be learned from this piece of biblical history, so that you’ll have a more blessed and rewarding life now and in the hereafter.

This video explains how to walk out the biblical law of wearing fringes on one’s garments using show-and-tell examples of various types of clothing and ways to wear fringes or tzitzit.

 

Has the Real Source of Tzizit Blue Finally Been Discovered?

First definitive proof of ancient blue dye tekhelet revealed in Israel

Posted on December 31, 2013 by JNS.org.

tzitzitblue(JNS.org) The first definitive proof of production of the ancient blue dye tekhelet in Israel was revealed during an Israel Antiquities Authority presentation at a Jerusalem conference.

Derived from shellfish, tekhelet is mentioned in the Torah as the dye used in the clothing of the High Priest in the Jerusalem Temple, as well as being mixed in with white in the fringes of the tzitzit garment. But the origins of tekhelet were lost after the Roman exile, and most tzitzit fringes today are colored exclusively white. Over the past century, experts—including the late Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog—have attempted to rediscover the origins of the dye, tracing it to the hillazon snail. (To  read more, http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2013/12/31/first-definitive-proof-of-ancient-blue-dye-tekhelet-revealed-in-israel.)

Links to other articles on this subject: http://www.christianpost.com/news/israeli-researcher-discovers-evidence-of-rare-color-known-as-biblical-blue-111824/http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/31/archaeologists-make-incredibly-rare-find-with-roots-in-the-bible/.