Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky Gets Asked About Techeiles

Here it is…

I like the jokes (for the first 19 minutes), but the halacha part reminds me of a kid cramming for a book report.

Rabbi Orlofsky knows less than nothing about the topic. Instead, he runs through the answered-a-thousand-times shibboleths: Nignaz, the “proper” tint, “Gedolim”, so-called “Masorah”, all outrageous. Rabbi Orlofsky also suspects the sellers are diluting their wares (there’s a hechsher!). And his “hashkafic” ideas are antinomian\anti-halachic, not that he’s alone, sadly.

(As a neighbor, he should really do me the courtesy of reading Hyehudi more.)

Just to say something new, though: regarding Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg (minute 49), see this. Also, he is probably unaware of the significant transformation by many, such as Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch.