Quoting%20commentary for Sotah 33:25

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> אינו כותב לא על הלוח ולא על הנייר ולא על

Raba expounded: As a reward for our father Abraham having said: I will not take a thread nor a shoelatchet,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XIV, 23. ');">²⁴</span> his descendants were worthy to receive two commandments, viz., the thread of blue<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the fringes of the garment (Num. XV, 38). ');">²⁵</span> and the thong of the phylacteries. It is right in the case of the thong of the phylacteries, for it is written: And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXVIII, 10. ');">²⁶</span> and it has been taught: R. Eliezer the Elder says: This refers to the phylactery worn upon the head;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence its advantage to him who performs the precept. ');">²⁷</span> but what is [the advantage to him who performs the law] of the thread of blue? — It has been taught: R. Meir used to say: Why is blue specified from all the varieties of colours? Because blue resembles [the colour of] the sea, and the sea resembles [the colour of] heaven, and heaven resembles [the colour of] the Throne of Glory, as it is said: And they saw the God of Israel and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIV, 10. ');">²⁸</span> and it is written: The likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. I, 26. [And he who fulfils the precept is blessed, as it were, with the Divine Presence (Rashi).] ');">²⁹</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. HE WRITES NEITHER ON A [WOODEN] TABLET NOR ON PAPYRUS NOR ON

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