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Nothing should intervene between the lulav, hadassim, and aravot.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "heading", "english": "THE TAKING OF THE LULAV", "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "1. The blessing over the lulav should be recited after the Amidah, before Hallel. However, since the most proper way of performing this mitzvah is in the sukkah, one should recite the blessing in the morning before prayer, while in the sukkah.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "2. When holding the lulav bound with the hadassim and aravot, its spine should be toward one's face.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "3. On the first occasion in the year that the four species are being used, the blessing שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ is said while the lulav is held in the right hand and the etrog in the left hand. At the conclusion of the blessing, they are brought together.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "4. On other days, the lulav is taken in the right hand, and the blessing is recited. Then the etrog is taken in the left hand and brought together with the lulav. The top of the etrog should be held next to the bottom of the lulav.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "5. The four species are moved in six directions, a total of eighteen movements, i.e., three times to and fro in each direction. Each time they are brought back, their lower tips should touch the chest at the heart.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "6. When making the movement forward, care should be taken that the top of the lulav does not touch the wall.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "7. The order of the six movements is: right (southeast), left (northeast), forward (east), upward, downward, back (twice southwest, and once due west).", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "8. On the downward movement, the lulav should not, God forbid, be inverted; rather the movement of the hands should be downward and upward. Likewise, in all the movements, the lulav should be held erect; only the hands holding the four species should be moved toward the specific direction. See illustrations, pages 642-643.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "9. The lulav and etrog should always be held with both hands.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "10. During Hallel, one should make four series of movements (as indicated in the footnotes, pages 309 and 311)—eighteen movements in each.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "11. If one recited the blessing over the lulav in the synagogue after the Amidah, he should make only three series of movements in Hallel, omitting the one at the repetition of אָנָּא ה' הוֹשִׁיעָה נָּא.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "12. On Hoshana Rabbah before reciting Hallel, one should remove the two top rings from the lulav, leaving the three rings that bind the lulav with the hadassim and aravot.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "13. In a year of Hakhel, both the lulav and etrog are held throughout the entire Hallel.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "heading", "english": "HOSHANOT", "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "1. A mourner does not circle the bimah, even on Hoshana Rabbah.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "2. One who does not have a lulav and etrog does not circle the bimah, even on Hoshana Rabbah.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "3. The phrases that are recited responsively should be said while standing with the feet together, the circuit around the bimah should be made between the recitation of the phrases.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "4. On Hoshana Rabbah all Torah scrolls are taken from the Ark, and held at the bimah.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "heading", "english": "SHEMINI ATZERET AND SIMCHAT TORAH", "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "heading", "english": "HAKAFOT", "transliteration": {} }, { "type": "Passage", "english": "1. It is an ancient custom of the pious to make Hakafot on the eve of Shemini Atzeret just as on Simchat Torah—to carry the Torah scrolls in procession around the bimah seven times with great joy, to sing and dance before them, and to circle with them with profound rejoicing.", "englishOnly": true, "transliteration": {} } ], "footer": [] } }, "links": [ { "rel": "parent", "title": "Siddur Tehillat Hashem, Annotated Edition", "href": "/siddur/tehillat-hashem-annotated.json" }, { "rel": "prev", "title": "Minchah / Blessing / Sukkot", "href": "/siddur/tehillat-hashem-annotated/1152-1152-610-610-selected-laws-and-customs-minchah-blessing-sukkot.json" }, { "rel": "next", "title": "Hakafot / Mashiv Haruach Umorid Hageshem / Day of Simchat Torah / Chanukah", "href": "/siddur/tehillat-hashem-annotated/1154-1154-612-612-selected-laws-and-customs-hakafot-mashiv-haruach-umorid-hageshem-day-of-simchat-torah-chanukah.json" } ] }