Reply To: Techeiles 🔵❎🐌☑️🐟

“What I intended with the radvaz is to show that coming up every 7 years is derech nes and after the churban that stopped happening. This is his lashon ???? ???? ????? ?? ??? ???? see his full lashon in siman ???”?”

Pliny the Elder who lived well before techeiles was lost and even before the churban writes about the Murex Trunculus. He mentions a seven month harvesting cycle, but nothing about coming up once in 70 years(or any cycle of abundance). Thus we see that even before the churban, the Murex Trunculus did not fit this criterion.

“If so the shape of one snail will be more ‘domeh ldag’ than the other snails.”

While that may be true, the braisa is describing the chilazon to someone who doesn’t yet know that it is a snail. Saying that it looks like a fish is only helpful if we already know that it is a snail.

Furthermore, in almost every picture on that page(save one or two) the Murex did not look like the color of the sea.(And it was on page 52 not 58, but I’ll forgive that)