cute and cuttlefish
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 by adminThe NY Times (to which I am addicted) has an article on the cuttlefish. This sparked my interest mainly because when the Radzyner Rebbe first went looking for the identity of the chilazon in the late nineteenth century, he ultimately concluded that the cuttlefish was the chilazon. To this day in fact, the radzyner chasidim wear tekhelet made out of the ink of the cuttlefish. The Gemarah in menachot relates that the chilazon’s body is “like the sea”. As the NY Times article relates, the cuttlefish has the ability to camouflage itself in impressive fashion. I’m sure this fact contributed greatly to the Radzyner rebbe’s identification.
