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

complete taking, and if one species is missing, it isn’t complete.

]4[ However,] we only say that they are requisite components if they aren’t all
in front of him, but if they are all in front of him and he picked up each one at a
time, he fulfills his obligation. [In which case,] he should pick up the lulav first,
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recite the beracha over it and have in mind to include the other [species]. If he
spoke between [the beracha and the other species] for purposes other than those
connected to the lulav and the arba minim, he must recite a beracha for each
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species as it is only when he takes them together that they are all secondary to
the lulav which is taller. If however, he spoke between them, he needs to recite [a
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new] beracha even though they are one mitzva. Similarly, if after he said the
beracha he realized that aravos or hadasim were posul or that the hadasim were
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placed upside down, he must recite a new beracha on that species and [also] say
the beracha of shehecheyanu. 11

]5[ It is a preferred mitzva to take one lulav, since “kapos temarim” is written

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tam” instead, it is intended to teach us that it hadasim, he says “al netilas eitz avos”, for the
must be a complete taking, i.e. all four species arvos “arvei nachal, and for the esrog “pri eitz
must be taken in order to fulfill the mitzva. hadar” (Mishna Berura).

7. The mishna (Menachos 27a) teaches 9. Hagaos Maimoni as codified by the
that in order to fulfill the mitzva, all four
species of the lulav are necessary. Yet, the Rema. See however the Magen Avraham who
wonders why this should be the case; after all,
gemara there qualifies that as long as he has
all of them, he need not take them as one unit speaking between blasts of the shofar doesn’t
necessitate a new beracha even though it is
bound together. Although Rabeinu Tam one mitzva. (See above 141:7.) He offers that
understands this to simply mean that one
need not bind them together but must pick perhaps the Rema here is incorporating the
opinion of the Raavad who always requires
them all up at the same time, most rishonim four separate berachos to be recited when
understand that as long as he has all of them ד
available, he may lift them up one at a time. lifting each one up separately. The Biur
The halacha follows this opinion. Halacha however suggests that although we
hold that one can pick up each of the species
8. Meaning, that upon lifting the separately, they must be picked up one

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