Hadass

Aravah is no smell and no good deeds.

And what's last? Hadassim, smell and no taste.

So smell is Torah, taste is good deeds, right? Lulav has good, lots of good taste, has a lot of good deeds.

The hadassim have a lot of smell, a lot of Torah, but no good deeds.

The hayim yim, for the 14th of Tishrei, Erev Chagasukes, the Rebbe writes, that we have to make an Erev Tachshilin.

And then he writes that we use not more than two Araveis, but many Hadassim can be used, more than two.

We make a point of putting together the Lulav and all of its parts in the Sukkah and on Erev Yontif.

Two rings are put on the Lulav itself to keep the Lulav together.

The Hayim Yim, for the 14th of Tishrei, Erev Chagasukes, the Rebbe writes, that we have to make an Erev Tachshilin.

And then he writes that we use not more than two Aravis, but many Hadassim can be used, more than two.

We make a point of putting together the Lulav and all of its parts in the Sukkah and on Erev Yontif.

Two rings are put on the Lulav itself to keep the Lulav together.

Probably means he didn't hear from his father-in-law, which is usually what the Rebbe refers to.

But in the last year, the Rebbe established that Minik Chabad is that we make a minimum of six Hadassim, in other words, double of the three.

And this This is for the purpose of beautifying the lulav, and the Rebbe himself in the later years was known to use 36 hadassah.

Mahadrim leged ha-lulav b'sukah is optimal to bind the lulav in the sukkah necessarily.

And also the top ring should also be at least partially covered.

But besides for these two rings we put on the lulav itself, We do additional three rings.

With which you tie together the Hadassim and the Aroves with the Lulav.

These three rings should be close together within the size of a tefach.

Amar av abba, harah dabra inshi, af tsadeka ben, ben chilpi, af tsashmei.

This is what people say that when you have-- This is very much, uh, a Gemara post Yom Kippur talking about Yisroel, af al pi sh'chata Yisroel hu, and now we have Hadassim over here, right? When you have a Hadas and it's, it's standing beautiful and tall and green and symmetric and smells, uh, you know, amazing.

So y- when Hadas is standing between, you know, some branches or thorns, whatever it is, that will always stay a Hadas.

Says the Gemara, Ve'af tsakar le, and they call it a Hadas.

And now, on to this week's four.

So on Circus, we take four completely different planes, the Esrog, Lulav, Hadassim, and Aramav.

and hold them all together as one bundle.

In the Midrash, Rabi Mani explains that these four species represent four different types of people in a community.

comes from a date palm which produces sweet fruit to eat but has no smell.

It stands for someone who knows a lot but does not always want to put that knowledge into action.

Next is the Hadassim.

It has a sweet smell but no taste.

211.

Some of them grip to the Holy Name above, such as Lulav, Etrog, Hadass, and

Aravah.

Hence, they need to be united and tied together, and work must be done with them to shake them so as to evoke joy in the root, which is gripped to it above.

211.

Some of them grip to the Holy Name above, such as Lulav, Etrog, Hadass, and

Aravah.

Hence, they need to be united and tied together, and work must be done with them to shake them so as to evoke joy in the root, which is gripped to it above.

211.

Some of them grip to the holy name above, such as Lulav, Etrog, Hadass, and

Aravah.

Hence, they need to be united and tied together, and work must be done with them to shake them so as to evoke joy in the root, which is gripped to it above.