Finally, one man came and started climbing the palm tree. On his way up, he estimated the lulav was only 4 or 5 feet in length. But then he cut it down and it turned out to be 9 feet 2 inches.

The lulav crisis in Israel is still not going away, despite the entry of 70,000 lulavim from Gaza today. ... A lulav - a branch growing out of the center of the palm tree ...

Largest lulav-harvesting kibbutz has fronds in high places ... At Tirat Zvi, lulavs are harvested from a type of palm tree called the Dery Palm. As the story goes, in 1985, ...

A 75-year-old ultra-Orthodox man from the north of Israel died late on Sunday after suffering injuries when he fell from a palm tree while trying to pick a palm frond, or lulav, haredi news outlet ...

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) ...

Maimonides, when he wrote Hilchot Sukkah, which makes clear the requirement for an etrog and lulav, was living in Egypt, where finding an etrog, a palm tree, a willow and myrtle leaves was like ...

Kagan’s etrog prices, which appear to be the norm, can range from $45 to several hundreds of dollars, which always includes the lulav, hadass and aravah. “I just sold an etrog for $350,” he ...

A lulav is a closed frond of a date palm tree and is one of the four species used during prayers during the Sukkot holiday, which is being celebrated this week.

Imagine the State of Israel without palm trees — the source of sweetness in the biblical “land of milk and honey,” the provider of the lulav branches we wave on Sukkot, the tree that beckons ...

Finding the perfect etrog for Sukkot can be a challenge. Here are the things you need to look for to find a kosher etrog at your local market.

A man throws a Lulav which is part of the palm tree used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. People keep the Lulav after the holiday to also burn it during Biur Chametz. Don't Edit Before the ...

Chief among them is the practice of sitting and eating in the sukkah, an outdoor temporary structure, and shaking the lulav (palm frond) along with three other botanical species.