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#Ashkenazim shake east, south, west, north, up, down. Face forward and shake clockwise <ref> Mishna Brurah 651:47 </ref> You don't have to turn your body to face that direction, you can just shake the [[lulav]] towards that direction while facing forward. <ref> Mishna Brurah 651:37 quoting the Magen Avraham and the Maamar Mordechai. </ref>
#Ashkenazim shake east, south, west, north, up, down. Face forward and shake clockwise <ref> Mishna Brurah 651:47 </ref> You don't have to turn your body to face that direction, you can just shake the [[lulav]] towards that direction while facing forward. <ref> Mishna Brurah 651:37 quoting the Magen Avraham and the Maamar Mordechai. </ref>
#One should refrain from shaking while mentioning the name of Hashem lest he become distracted while saying His name. <ref> Mishna Brurah 651:37, Kaf Hachayim 651:84, Chazon Ovadia 655 </ref>
#One should refrain from shaking while mentioning the name of Hashem lest he become distracted while saying His name. <ref> Mishna Brurah 651:37, Kaf Hachayim 651:84, Chazon Ovadia 655 </ref>
# Some have the minhag to shake the lulav after reciting the bracha in the Sukkah.<Ref>[https://www.torahanytime.com/#/lectures?v=67781 Rav Yitzchak Yosef (Motzei Shabbat Haazinu 5779 min. 6)] explains that his father never took the lulav to shake it in the Sukkah.</ref>


==After [[Sukkot]]==
==After [[Sukkot]]==