Questions tagged [techeles]

Does the murex, which was found recently, contain the actual techelet? If there's a safek whether it really is or isn't ,is there any harm in wearing it? Like, would it posel the tzitzis?

One often repeated argument against the acceptance of Murex techailes is that "the Gedolim" don't accept it. Certainly there are many Gedolim who considered the issue, at least superficially, and did not start using the Murex. Often one Gadol would…