Blue Fringes Discussion Forum

1. How come Techeiles tzitis doesn't help with what it's supposed to help better than regular white strings [yiras shamayim, remembering all the mitzvos, remembering the Torah, parnassa, bad thoughts, eyesight, should I keep going?]?
2. Or how come there appears to be no difference, ceteris paribus, between those who do or don't wear Techeiles?

Or am I all wrong on the facts?

If the facts were [obviously] not like the above wouldn't it be nice if we could use this as another selling point?

I don't mean to invite lashon hara against any (known) individuals! Hope this isn't impossible...

Disclaimer: We know "Lo bashamayim hi" [לא בשמים היא], so halacha won't hinge on this question.
 

Where does it say that techeiles helps wearers with these things more than white strings?

Since in our time, if we have Techeiles, that is the full, correct observance of the mitzva, it stands to reason.

Besides, how is one supposed to recall Hashem etc. by association of the color blue without any blue?

Here is one explicit source:

זוהר חלק ג’ קע”ה א’ (סוף פרשת שלח)

I actually wondered that myself and wrote a small piece on it: https://thelibrary.tekhelet.com/uploads ... 18-p58.pdf . I think that without the Beis HaMikdash standing we need to work on ourselves a lot harder to appreciate that Techeiles is supposed to remind us of royalty and that we are all sons of a Higher Being Who Sits on the Kiseh HaKavod. Today when we are inundated with colors it's hard to relate to a time where colored fabrics, namely in the royal sky blue-purple range were a lot more expensive, were insanely expensive and only those that were royalty were commanded to wear it. In fact, a couple of authorities, namely the Ohr HaChaim, commented that Techeiles is like a gold seal for us.