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

]19[ In the times of the Beis HaMikdah, they would encircle the mizbayach
every day of Succos with bundles of aravos, and so as a remembrance of the Beis
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HaMikdash, we are accustomed to do so. We take out a sefer Torah and put it
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on the bimah and walk around it one time while saying the hoshanos printed in
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the siddur. On the seventh day it is Hoshana Rabbah and they would encircle
the mizbayach seven times. Therefore, we walk around seven times as well. The
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custom is that only those holding a lulav walk around. Nevertheless if there is
no lulav in the entire city, on the seventh day, they should walk around carrying
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aravos. Some say that a mourner shouldn’t walk around, but one who does walk
around has nothing to lose and will be duly rewarded. 94

]20[ One should not smell the esrog when fulfilling the mitzva since some say
then that it isn’t meant for smelling. However, when it is not being used for the
mitzva, it is permitted to smell it and one recites the beracha “ha’nosein rei’ach tov
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ba’peiros”. The same is true on Shabbos chol ha’moed Succos. See K’lal 66, siman

םדו רשב
89. The mishna (Succah 45a) tells us that halacha, or kabbalah. Still, some communities
when the Beis HaMikdash was standing, the say hoshanos after hallel except on Shabbos
kohanim would encircle the mizbayach once and/or Hoshana Rabba, when they say them
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after musaf, and each community should
90. The prevalent custom is to have follow its own minhag.
someone hold the sefer Torah next to the
bimah, but it can be placed on the bimah as 92. Although the Beis Yosef writes that on
the Chayei Adam’s words here indicate. Hoshana Rabba, if one doesn’t have a lulav, he
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should hold his bundle of aravos instead, the
91. Although the Rav Sadya Gaon’s אמ
custom was to say hoshanos immediately after custom is not to (Darkei Moshe).
krias ha’Torah once the sefer Torah was 93. Bach, Magen Avraham.
already out, the custom is not to. Rather, some
say hoshanos immediately after hallel (the 94. The Kol Bo writes that a mourner,
custom of the Sefardim, Chasidim, and of during the entire year after the death of a
many nusach Ashkenaz communities in Eretz parent (or within thirty days of the passing of
Yisroel), while others (nusach Ashkenaz, Bikurei another close relative) should not encircle the
Yaakov) say hoshanos after musaf. Each bimah during hoshanos. Although the Beis
minhag has a valid basis either in the gemara, Yosef rejects this for why should he lose out

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