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Chayei Adam - K’lal 148 - Laws of Lulav & Daled Minim

]1[ It is a positive mitzva of the Torah that every single Jew should take a lulav
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and [all] four species, as it says “And you shall take on the first day...” and after
this it says “and you shall rejoice before Hashem for seven days”. Chazal
understand that ‘before Hashem’ means that in the Beis HaMikdash, you shall
rejoice for seven days, [but] in other places, the Torah obligation is only on the
first day. However, Chazal mandated that we take [them] all seven days, even
nowadays and even outside of Eretz Yisroel, as a remembrance of the Beis
HaMikdash. 2

]2[ The Torah writes “kapos termarim” [which refers to] the palm branches we
call lulav. “Anaf eitz avos” refers to hadasim (myrtle branches). “Arvei Nachal”
mentioned by the Torah doesn’t refer to just anything which grows by the river
but is rather a specific species called “arvei nachal”. The “pri eitz hadar'' referred
to by the Torah is the esrog which is called merageg in Aramaic and is “hadar” in
lashon ha’kodesh. All of these things were explained by Moshe Rabeinu [and is a]
halacha l’Moshe mi’Sinai. 3

]3[ All of these four species are [composite parts of] one mitzva and are
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requisite components. Together, they are referred to as the mitzva of lulav
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because it is the highest one of them. One may not detract from nor add on to
them. [This is learned] because it says “u’lekatchtem lachem” and not “v’lakachta”
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or “k’chu”. Therefore, Chazal understand that this means that it must be a

םדו רשב
1. Vayikra 23:40. HaMikdash was standing, everyone shook
their lulav on the first day, even if it was on
2. The Torah commands us to take the Shabbos, the only exception being remote
arba minim (four species) on the first day of communities outside of Eretz Yisroel who
Succos, and rejoice before Hashem for seven observed two days of yom tov out of doubt. א
days (Vayikra 23:40). Chazal understand this (See above K’lal 139, note 88 for a detailed
to mean that the Torah obligation to take the discussion of this.) However, unless it was the
arba minim is only on the first day of Succos, first day of yom tov, the Chachamim forbade
except in the Beis HaMikdash, when the shaking lulav on Shabbos, even in the Beis
obligation is all seven days. When the Beis HaMikdash, despite the fact that it was a Torah

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