The Quest for the Holy Snail

In 1888 the Radzyner Rebbe, Rav Gershon Henokh Leiner, left the province of Lublin, Poland, as well as his community of chasidim in Radzyn, to study sea fauna at an aquarium in Naples. He had formulated, in the previous year, a short treatise that asserted that one must only fulfill the obligation to wear tekhelet with the same marine species that had been used in years past. Since the Radzyner Rebbe had no reason to believe that this specific marine species, (Heb.) hilazon, required for tekhelet had become extinct, he set off to Naples to search for the hilazon.

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