In preparation for the holiday of Sukkot, many Jews around the world will purchase a lulav (bound date, myrtle and willow fronds) and an etrog (a citron) for use during synagogue and in their sukkahs.

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 ...

Coming with the Four Species [citron (etrog) and palm (lulav), myrtle and willow branches] and musical instruments, bringing the joy of Sukkot to the street.

The lulav, the date palm tree frond, is one of the Four Species used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). Bound together with two other Species — hadass (myrtle), aravah (willow ...

SeEditor’s Note: Sukkot is the annual Jewish harvest festival that commemorates the 40 years the Israelites spent in the desert in the book of Exodus. As part of the holiday, branches from the palm ...

Synagogues typically offer Four Kinds sets — including a lulav, an etrog, three hadassim (myrtle sticks), and two aravot (willow tree branches). This is then used in a blessing where one shakes ...

Largest lulav-harvesting kibbutz has fronds in high places ... myrtle and etrog). Rotem has seen Tirat Zvi lulavs for sale in New York for as much as NIS 350 ($100). ...

The lulav is a bundle consisting of three myrtle branches (hadasim), two willow branches (aravot) and a palm frond (lulav also refers to the entire bundle of the palm, ...

The Four Species refers to the lulav (palm branch), hadas (myrtle), arava (willow), and etrog (citron). All four are utilized to bless the Sukkah when the holiday of Sukkot is celebrated.

The lulav, which is meant to symbolize the body, is made from binding the frond of a palm tree to myrtle and willow branches. The etrog, which is meant to symbolize the heart, ...

The lulav bouquet is enhanced by its diversity and by its inclusion of seemingly “lesser” components. By contrast, a sukkah shelters all its inhabitants equally, without regard of their level ...