Q&A: A Question About the Color of Tzitzit
A Question About the Color of Tzitzit
Question
Dear Rabbi
I know you prefer that people ask questions separately and not like rain pouring onto the ground all at once, so I’m cutting it short and asking briefly here:
Was tzitzit originally only with white strings?
Did God later change this and one day decide that we should add a blue thread to the original tzitzit.
Or was it always the familiar tzitzit, with the blue thread woven among white threads, from the very beginning.
Thank you
Answer
I’m already eagerly waiting for the downpour of your next questions 🙂
I didn’t understand where this initial assumption came from. The blue thread is written in the Torah together with the white. What makes you invent that one preceded the other? Unless, perhaps, you read some historical study published in the Queer Journal of the History of Sail Threads for Four-Cornered Garments in Cleveland, Ohio? This requires further investigation.