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

shehecheyanu even on the seventh day. This is like one who didn’t recite
shehecheyanu on yom tov, that he says it [at any point] during the next seven
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days. Alternatively, if he wants, he can pick up the esrog [right away] but hold it
with the stem facing upward, or he can intend not to fulfill the mitzva until after
he says the beracha. This is the preferable way, because by turning the esrog
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upside down, one can make holes in the esrog. However, one should not say
the beracha before he picks up the lulav, as we have written in Hilchos Berachos -
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k’lal 5. One should recite the beracha while standing, and he should also pick it
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up while he is standing. It is permitted to take it several times as an endearment
of the mitzva, as this was the custom of the people of Yerushalayim who would
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carry the lulav in their hands as they walked through the streets. However, it is

םדו רשב
42. Chayei Adam’s note: As the Magen can be made that there is a difference
Avraham writes 473:1 and although one between the shehecheyanu recited over a yom
can draw a distinction, nevertheless, it tov and one recited over a mitzva in that the
appears to me that one can say the beracha former can be said at any point over the
and it is written so explicitly in 676:1. course of the festival while the latter is only
There, the Shulchan Aruch deals with when fulfilling the mitzva, and perhaps then
the case of someone who forgot to say only for the first time, the Shulchan Aruch
shehecheyanu in kiddush on the first night of rules that if one failed to say shehecheyanu
Pesach, that he should say it whenever he when lighting the menorah on the first night
remembers over the course of yom tov. The of Chanuka, it can be said on subsequent
Magen Avraham argues that the same is true if nights. Clearly then, a shehecheyanu recited
one forgot to say it on the second night of over a mitzva is not limited to the first time he
yom tov (although he did say it on the first): fulfills it. See Hebrew note.
זי
Since yom tov sheini is observed because we
have a doubt as to which day is really yom tov, 43. Chayei Adam’s note: Even according
this should equally apply to one who shook a to the opinion that says that mitzvos don’t
lulav without a bracha on the first day of yom require intent, that it only if he has no
tov because he was unsure of whether or not it intent at all, but certainly one cannot fulfill
was kosher. When he later obtains a kosher a mitzva against his will. This is also the
set, he should be able to say a shehecheyanu intent of the Shiltei Giborim cited by the
then. Certainly then, the shehecheyanu can be Magen Avraham 651:12 although his words
made later, even though he may have fulfilled need adjusting and it should read: ‘if he
his obligation earlier. Although an argument intends not to fulfill the mitzva until after

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