color, colour, dye, hue, tint, shade, you name it
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Tallis gadol with white stripes
An interesting question has been posted on the signification of tallis' stripes : Stripes on a Talis
About stripes color the Rambam position's noticed as black being closer to techeiles color.
My ...
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Does a tallis have to be of a certain color?
Are there any halachos which require a tallis to be of a certain color? I've seen talleisim of many different colors, but are there any actual rules with regard to the color as opposed to the ...
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Stripes on a Talis
Is there any reason for the stripes on a talis? Does the color of the stripes have any significance?
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What color is Yarok?
Yarok ירוק in modern Hebrew means green. What color does it refer to in Mishnaic Hebrew? I have heard that it refers to yellow and not green because the Mishna in Sukkah (on 34b) discusses a citron ...
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May a man pull out the white hairs from his beard/hair?
"Help! My beard/hair is turning white."
May a man pull out the white hairs from his beard/hair?
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Do Tefilin need to be painted with “special” ink?
When painting tefillin, are there any requirements regarding the ink (other than the need to be black)? Or is any ink okay to use?
Like in the comments to this answer, shoe polish is recommended. Is ...
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When do we change back the ark-cover etc from white to the rest-of-the-year colour?
When do we change back the proches (ark-cover) etc from white to the rest-of-the-year colour?
I would have thought right after Simchas Torah or possibly Isru Chag?
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What are the colors of the rainbow?
While the colors of the rainbow (or spectral colors) form a continuum, people have assigned them to finitely many pigeonholes for centuries and probably millennia. Apparently, Newton used seven colors ...
