Sukkot: Why an etrog & not a lemon?-סוכת

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] the med says that if two people are going to court and they have a dispute how do you know which one is Victorious says the medish that the one who walks out with a stick upright that individual was Victorious and so too Russ Sher we have a court Sher we have a court case against the neam the animal Soul or the Satan who is the district attorney that tries to find fault in Us and how do we know that we are victorious when it comes the holiday of sukot or sukus and we work out with the lulav and the Rog the lulav is UPR right then we know that we are truly Victorious what is the secret of the lul Victorious what is the secret of the lul and the asri the Hadas and that of the four species we find in the Torah in The Book of Leviticus chter 23 verse number 40 it says over there on the first day of the of you are to take for yourself a very beautiful fruit the date pal or the frons of a fruit the date pal or the frons of a date pal a branch of a braided tree and Willows of the brook these are the four species that one is to take for the holiday of sukus in other words in addition to eating in the Suka we also have an additional Mitzvah and that is to make a a blessing

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