Reply To: Techeiles 🔵❎🐌☑️🐟

All the vitriolic diatribe notwithstanding, you failed to address my simple point. I ask you again to provide a source anywhere in kol hatorah kula (I know that’s exceedingly redundant) that you need a mesorah to allow you to do a mitzva, or that if people were unable to do a mitzva for a period of time then it becomes batel mevutal leolam va’ed.

Again it is clear from the gedolei rishonim and acharonim that a mesorah is not necessary – they talk about Techeiles coming back. That also means that they held that “nignaz” does not mean hidden away forever. In fact the Eitz Yosef on the Midrash says that “nignaz” means forgotten, based on Rashi in Pesachim.

Also if you read R’ Elyashiv’s teshuva and R’ Shternbuch’s teshuva, although they come out against techeiles, there is no mention of mesorah.