Tekhelet: A Colour of the Covenant

Ariel BerkowitzMay 201311 min readAwaiting author

There is a new colour becoming fashionable on the streets of Jerusalem today. It is the colour blue. By fashionable, we do not mean, that the wealthy and suave upper class are donning blue blouses or blue jewellery in excessive displays of their opulence. Rather, blue is beginning to re-appear in the strings that hang down the sides of the trousers and dangling from the four corners of the prayer

About the author

Ariel Berkowitz (M.Div) has been an adjunct professor with IBEX (Israel Bible Exchange program) since 1995. His area of specialty is Jewish history, thought and culture. Ariel is also an instructor with TorahResource Institute and Torah Resources International. He taught both full and part time at Israel College of Bible from 1992-2006. He and his wife D’vorah moved from the USA to Israel as citizens in 1992. They have four children and two grandchildren. Their family home is near Jerusalem.

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