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

down. If he is in a shul which shakes this way, he shouldn’t deviate from the
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custom. The custom is to rattle the leaves while moving the lulav back and
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forth, but those who shake it too strongly will certainly break the lulav and this
is a mistake; a slight rattling is sufficient.

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]15[ The mitzva of lulav applies during the day, but not at night. The entire
day is valid in that if he didn’t yet take the lulav, he still can. Ideally, he should
wait until after sunrise to take it, but if he did so after alos ha’shachar, he fulfills
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his obligation. If he didn’t take the lulav until bein ha’shemashos, during chol
ha’moed, he should shake it without a beracha. It appears to me that this is true
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םדו רשב

in their hands but then invert their hands, the Magen Avraham disagrees and that one
there is no problem. Nevertheless, the should turn his entire body to face the same
prevalent custom is to follow the Beis Yosef direction in which he shakes the lulav. This is
and merely lower the lulav in a downwards also the opinion of the Arizal and the
direction. The acharonim offer support for mekubalim (Kaf Hachayim). Each person
this from the gemara (Succah 38a) which should follow his own custom.
compares shaking the lulav to waving the
korbanos offered on Shavuos in that they both 65. Regarding the korbanos offered on
serve to protect us. There, the animal is clearly Shavuos, the mishna (Menachos 61a) teaches
lowered and not inverted upside down and that one should wave [the korbanos] back and
therefore, the same should seemingly be true forth and up and down. In the gemara there,
when it comes to shaking the lulav (Taz, Rava says that the same procedure applies to
Gra). Although this is indeed the prevalent the lulav. Although the Baal Ha’Itur therefore
custom, some do turn their lulavim upside understands that the lulav is only waved back
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down. and forth and up and down, most rishonim
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understand that one should wave his lulav in
64. According to the Maharil, one should all six directions. The Talmud Yerushalmi adds
remain stationary during the na’anu’im, and that one should wave it three times in each
simply shake his lulav to the sides, or over his direction, but is unsure as to whether or not
shoulder, while he remains facing east, as moving the lulav back and forth in each
implied by the words of Shulchan Aruch. See direction counts as one or two. Although the
however Bikurei Yaakov who understands that na’anu’im are a rabbinic enactment and one

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