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How do I put together my Lulav set?

by Rabbi Yossi Marcus

  

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Here's the deal: Call your local Chabad center and they will help you with the assembly! But if you want to try it yourself (not recommended), here goes:1 

Unless you are following the Chabad custom, do as follows: Take the woven wicker pockets and put the stem of the Lulav through the hole which is between the two long vertical pockets. You should now have a lulav with a pocket on each side. Put the myrtles (those are the three branches with the smaller leaves) in the right pocket. Put the willows (two branches with long leaves) in the left pocket. The right side is determined by looking at the palm branch with its spine (thick darkish green line) facing you. Put it all back in the plastic bag and keep air tight with a rubber band or something.

If you are following the Chabad custom, do not use the pocket contraption. Place a willow branch on either side of the lulav. Then place a myrtle brance on either side of the lulav and one myrtle branch on the spine. Tie the whole thing together with leaves of the lulav.

Footnotes

  • 1. According to Chabad custom, the assembly should preferably be done in the Sukkah on the day before Sukkot begins.
TAGS: lulav, esrog, etrog

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Chabad
Chabad, an acronym for Wisdom, Knowledge, and Understanding, is the name of a Chassidic Group founded in the 1770s. Two of the most fundamental teachings of Chabad are the intellectual pursuit of understanding the divine and the willingness to help every Jew who has a spiritual or material need.
Lulav
A palm branch. One of the Four Species we are required to take on the holiday of Sukkot. We shake it together with a citron, myrtle, and willow.