Because of Sukkot's sacred nature, the plants used in their ceremonies can't be blemished in any way. In an article for Exploring Judaism, Rabbi Dan Ornstein explains that the etrog must be grown ...

Along with the lulav, a bound sheaf of branches, the etrog is an essential ritual object used during Sukkot; Jewish law requires adherents to wave the items during the holiday. The high demand for ...

Important ritual objects on sukkot include the lulav (a bundle of different types of branches) and an etrog (a species of citrus fruit commonly found in the Middle East).

But not a new one, his son noted. “Hasidic tradition has many stories of Russian cities where Jews struggled to find an etrog for Sukkot,” Berel Lazar said. “This year we are reliving also ...

Sukkot is a festival ... holding a citrus fruit called an etrog (which is a bit like a lemon), and a bundle of myrtle, palm and willow sticks called a lulav. During the festival these are held ...

Have you heard of the festival of Sukkot? What do you know about ... (myrtle twigs), aravot (willow twigs), a lulav (palm frond) and an etrog (citrus fruit). imageFocus image: A Jewish man holding ...

CHECKING AN etrog for blemishes in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood, ahead of Sukkot. (photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS) The Hebrew month of Shvat is when nature in the Land of Israel ...

Important ritual objects on sukkot include the lulav (a bundle of different types of branches) and an etrog (a species of citrus fruit commonly found in the Middle East). Shemini Atzeret, or “The ...