{"id":11071,"date":"2001-01-05T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2001-01-04T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:27:24","slug":"13-05-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/13-05-07\/","title":{"rendered":"07. Caring for the Four Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One must try to keep the <em>hadasim<\/em> and <em>aravot<\/em> fresh, and to that end the longstanding practice is to keep them in water. The Mishna states that it is permissible on Yom Tov to return the three bundled species to a container of water where they had already been kept, and even to add water to the container (<em>Sukka<\/em> 42a). However, the Sages forbade filling a container with water or changing the water in the original container on Yom Tov, as it is bothersome and resembles the action one would take to fix a <em>kli<\/em>, as it allows the species to last (SA 654:1).<\/p>\n<p>On <em>\u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em>, some people would change the water in which they hydrated the <em>lulav<\/em>, <em>hadasim<\/em>, and <em>aravot<\/em> to keep them fresh. Others would unbundle the species and place the <em>hadasim<\/em> in a vase with water and wrap the <em>aravot<\/em> in a damp towel or place them in water. Another way to keep the species fresh is to place them in a sealed carrying case, but this works only if they have not been out for very long; if they were out for a long time and have already started drying out, it is better to first place them in water to revive them.<\/p>\n<p>Some beautify the mitzva by changing the <em>aravot<\/em> every day, as the main way to beautify the <em>aravot<\/em> is to keep them fresh (Rema 654:1). Many are content to make efforts to keep them from drying out.<\/p>\n<p>As we learned above (section 2), there is a mitzva to bundle the <em>lulav<\/em> with the <em>hadasim<\/em> and <em>aravot.<\/em> Therefore, when one introduces new <em>aravot<\/em> or returns the <em>hadasim <\/em>from the vase, he should not just jam them into the existing bundle. Rather, he should re-tie the knot, gently reinsert them into the <em>koishelakh<\/em>, or at least add a new knot, to fulfill the mitzva of bundling (MB 654:5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One must try to keep the hadasim and aravot fresh, and to that end the longstanding practice is to keep them in water. The Mishna states that it is permissible on Yom Tov to return the three bundled species to a container of water where they had already been kept, and even to add water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-05"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>07. 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