3,231
edits
Order of Taking the Four Minim: Difference between revisions
From Halachipedia
Order of Taking the Four Minim (view source)
Revision as of 20:41, 22 October 2011
, 22 October 2011no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
*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> | ||
==After Sukkot== | |||
#The arba minim don't retain their holiness after sukkot, but it still should not be treated disrespectfully like being thrown into the garbage. It is permissible though to leave them somewhere even if you know somebody else will throw them in the garbage.<ref> Mishna Berura 21:6-7. Although the shulchan aruch siman 21, is referring to old tzitzit, Mishna Berura 21:1 extends it to all items used for a mitzva. </ref> If you show extra care by burying articles used for mitzvot, you will receive beracha. <ref> Rama 21:1 </ref> | |||
#There are several other customs that people have to do with their arba minim. <ref> Most of these are based on Shabbat 117b which says that Rabbi Ami and Rabbi Asi would make a meal out of the bread used for the eruv, because it was already used for a mitzva. </ref> | |||
*Burn the lulav in the oven baking the matzas. <ref> Rama 664:9 </ref> | |||
*Burn the lulav on erev pesach with the chametz. | |||
*Make etrog jelly and eat it on Tu B'shvat. | |||
*Give the pitom of the etrog to a pregnant women as a prayer for an easy childbirth. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 664:60 mentions the last 3 </ref> | |||
*Use the hadasim as besamim for havdala. <ref> Tur 297 and Bach there. </ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
