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# 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. <ref> Tur 651, Shulchan Aruch 651:3. </ref> | ||
*Ashkenazim should switch it, and hold the lulav in the left hand and etrog in the right hand. <ref> | *Ashkenazim should switch it, and hold the lulav in the left hand and etrog in the right hand. <ref> Rama (quoting the Rosh 3:25 and Rabbeinu Yerucham) 651:3. Rama adds that if a lefty held it as if he were a righty, he is still yotzei. </ref> | ||
#One should hobld the arba minim against each other both for the holding and for the shaking. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 651:11 </ref> | |||
==Naanuim (Shaking of the Lulav)== | |||
#Sephardim shake towards the south, north, east, up, down, west. (If the shul faces east then to your right, left, forward, up, down, backward.) <ref> Chazon Ovadia 352-353 paskins like the Arizal against Shulchan Aruch 651:10 who says to start at east and turn clockwise. </ref> | |||
#Ashkenazim shake east, south, west, north, up, down. You don't have to turn your body to face that direction, you can just shake the lulav towars that direction while facing forward. <ref> Mishna Berura 651:47 </ref> | |||
==After Sukkot== | ==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> | #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> One who shows extra care by burying articles used for mitzvot, 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> | #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 in the oven baking the matzas. <ref> Rama 664:9 </ref> | ||
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*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> | *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> | *Use the hadasim as besamim for havdala. <ref> Tur 297 and Bach there. </ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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