The account of the building of the Mishkan, which concludes in this week’s Parshah – Pekudei, includes a lot of colors. Dovid Taub took that opportunity to explore colors in Torah, many of which seem to have very different meanings in different contexts. As always, the Parshah Rabbit hole leads to many unexpected ideas, including the question many have asked since they were very young – was Esther really green?
Parshah Rabbit Hole – Episode 23, Pekudei:
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Love the potential to actual lesson as well as I was always confused about techeyles!.
Hoping to find the fish somedays soon.(bleeds blue???)
This has puzzled scholars for a long time, but according to a friend of mine, if you have ever seen the Aegean Sea the meaning becomes instantly obvious. I haven’t seen it myself, but my friend says if you go out in a boat on the Aegean and look at the water, it really does look wine-dark, in a way that no other sea does. Not the color of wine, but the darkness. And that is what Homer meant. As for the two shades of blue, for which English has only one word but Russian has two, a study found… Read more »
On the scale you showed with the line going from various shades of green into various shades of blue, the russian word “goluboy” was attached to the greenish shades which is not true. Goluboy is light-blue, taht is blue mixed with white.
For the mixture of green and blue russian language is using expression “the color of sea wave”.