HOLIDAYS

Making Of The Lulav

Knots are carefully

crafted to hold the
branches together.

C

ontinuing an annual
tradition, students on
break from area yeshi-
vot assembled lulavim (bundles
of leaves from a palm branch,
mrytle bush and willow tree) at
Spitzer's Hebrew Book and Gift
Center in Southfield in prepara-
tion for the holiday of Sukkot.
Customers were able to buy
• them pre-tied or could choose
the aravot (willow branches)
and hadasim (myrtle branches)
they wanted bound to the palm
branch that makes up the lulay.
A blessing is said over the lulav
and etrog (fruit of the citron
tree) each day of Sukkot, except
for Shabbat.

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Shelli Liebman Dorfman,

staff writer

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October 12 2006

Above left: Eli Britvan and Moshe Snow, both 16 and of Southfield, and izzi Silver, 17, of Oak Park assembling lulavim.
Above right: Sender Friedman, 19, of Southfield works on a holder as Izzi Silver, 17, of Oak Park ties a palm branch.