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==How to hold them== | ==How to hold them== | ||
#One should hold the lulav (aravot and hadasim included) in the right hand and the etrog in his left hand. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 651:2. Mishna Berura 15 explains that this is because the lulav, aravot, and hadasim have three parts of the mitzva while the etrog is only one. </ref> | # One should hold the lulav (aravot and hadasim included) in the right hand and the etrog in his left hand. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 651:2. Mishna Berura 15 explains that this is because the lulav, aravot, and hadasim have three parts of the mitzva while the etrog is only one. </ref> | ||
#For people who's left hand is the stronger one, | # For people who's left hand is the stronger one, | ||
*Sephardim should hold it as if they were right handed and hold the lulav in the right and etrog in the left. | *Sephardim should hold it as if they were right handed and hold the lulav in the right and etrog in the left. | ||
*Ashkenazim should switch it, and hold the lulav in the left hand and etrog in the right hand. <ref> This is based on a machloket Shulchan Aruch and Rama (quoting the Rosh and Rabbeinu Yerucham) 651:3. Rama adds that if a lefty held it as if he were a righty, he is still yotzei. </ref> | *Ashkenazim should switch it, and hold the lulav in the left hand and etrog in the right hand. <ref> This is based on a machloket Shulchan Aruch and Rama (quoting the Rosh and Rabbeinu Yerucham) 651:3. Rama adds that if a lefty held it as if he were a righty, he is still yotzei. </ref> | ||
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