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םּו ּ ׁש ִמ םי ִר ְּמֹוא ׁשֵי ְּו .ר ָּד ָּה ֹוני ֵא ֶ ׁש םּו ּ ׁש ִמ םי ִר ְּמֹוא ׁשֵי .לּוסָּ ּפ ,ויָּלָּע בר ּו ׁשבָּי ְּ ]וט[
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םדו רשב
explain that this is because a dry lulav is not lulavim were not easily available. Most
considered hadar. As mentioned previously acharonim understand the Rema as being
(see note 20), the Talmud Yerushalmi writes lenient only in extenuating circumstances,
that it is posul because ‘the dead cannot especially since there is a basis in the gemara
praise Hashem’ (based on Tehillim 115:117). (Succah 31a) for using a dry lulav when
The Ritva however understands the nothing else is available. The Kol Bo writes that
Yerushalmi’s expression as a poetic expression it isn’t considered dry unless it cracks when
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and that all agree that the real issue here is folded in half. Since lulavim are common, the
that it lacks in beauty and therefore does not consensus of the poskim is to rule in
qualify as hadar. accordance with the opinion of the Raavad
and Shulchan Aruch. (See also, Aruch
73. The Raavad writes that dryness of a Hashulchan who writes that if the lulav’s color
lulav is determined by its appearance, and is restored by soaking it in water, it is not
once the lulav has lost its green color, it is no considered dry.)
longer valid, and this is indeed the ruling of
Shulchan Aruch. Tosfos however compares it to 74. The mishna (Succah 29b) teaches that
the ear of a first born animal which is not a lulav which measures three tefachim ‘to
considered dry (which would disqualify it for a shake’ is valid. However, the gemara (32b)
korban, as blemished) unless it crumbles explains that the lulav - or according to one
under the pressure of one’s fingernail. The opinion, its spine - must be at least one tefach
Rema cites Tosfos’ opinion and writes that the higher than the hadasim which themselves
custom is to rule in accordance with it since measure three tefachim. In light of this, the

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