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# It is our custom on [[Hoshana Rabba]] morning after [[mussaf]] to beat five [[aravot]] on the floor five times. <ref> Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] pg. 440, Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 183, Shaar Hakavanot 105a. Chayei Adam 153:3 writes that although there's really no fixed number of aravot necessary the proper custom is to use five.</ref> | # It is our custom on [[Hoshana Rabba]] morning after [[mussaf]] to beat five [[aravot]] on the floor five times. <ref> Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] pg. 440, Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 183, Shaar Hakavanot 105a. Chayei Adam 153:3 writes that although there's really no fixed number of aravot necessary the proper custom is to use five.</ref> | ||
# We hold like the opinion in the gemara that the beating of the [[aravot]] is a minhag neviim, and therefore there is no bracha recited on it. <ref> This argument about whether its a minhag neviim or yesod neviim appears in Gemara Sukkah 44a-b. Rashi there explains the practical difference between these opinion is whether or not we say a bracha. The Rambam (Sukkah 7:22) writes that since we hold that beating the aravot is only a minhag we do not recite a bracha. Shulchan Aruch OC 664:2 agrees. </ref> Additionally, in the shem yichud the text should read minhag neviim and not yesod neviim.<ref>Chazon Ovadia Sukkot p. 440</ref> | # We hold like the opinion in the gemara that the beating of the [[aravot]] is a minhag neviim, and therefore there is no bracha recited on it. <ref> This argument about whether its a minhag neviim or yesod neviim appears in Gemara Sukkah 44a-b. Rashi there explains the practical difference between these opinion is whether or not we say a bracha. The Rambam (Sukkah 7:22) writes that since we hold that beating the aravot is only a minhag we do not recite a bracha. Shulchan Aruch OC 664:2 agrees. </ref> Additionally, in the shem yichud the text should read minhag neviim and not yesod neviim.<ref>Chazon Ovadia Sukkot p. 440</ref> | ||
# | # One should shake the aravot before beating them.<ref>Rama 664:4, Chayei Adam 153:3</ref> | ||
==Who's obligated?== | ==Who's obligated?== | ||
