For several months now, I have been dreaming of finding the perfect lulav — a palm frond the Torah requires us to wave as part of the ritual of the four species on Sukkot. To be kosher, a lulav ...

Lulav has been, is and — as long as it survives — will always be an enigma. It opened in 2004 as a Kosher restaurant that was closed for Shabbat from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, not a ...

While rain can be a blessing, we know that it can also be a curse. Shaking the lulav, according to the Rabbis, is in fact intended to prevent “bad rains and bad winds” (Sukkah 37b).

But Shlomo waited just a bit too long. He was in the shuk avidly searching among the 90 shekel lulav branches hoping he knew enough to spot a beautiful lulav at a great price when an older avreich ...

1 Vayikra 23:40; Sukka 29b. 2 OC 658:3-5,9. 3 Rashi, Sukka 29b. After the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai decreed that the lulav should be shaken every day of Sukkot ...

With Orthodox schools closed between Yom Kippur and the end of Sukkot, dozens of their students were selling lulav-and-etrog sets to passersby who have come to count on them.

The four species, the citron/etrog, lulav, myrtle and willow, are held together and waved in every direction to symbolize how the Divine is everywhere. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by ...

While playing with a lulav (palm branch) purchased for the Sukkot holiday with his twin brother, a two-year-old boy named Yehuda was injured in the cornea of his eye and needed surgery, where it ...