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October 07, 2006
Sukkot 2: Arba minim
All Yamim Noraim posts here, including one post a day from Rosh Chodesh Ellul 5766 through Yom Kippur 5767. All chagim posts here, including one post a day from the first day of Sukkot through Simchat Torah 5767. (Each of these include a mp3 of Jewish music from a wide variety of sources and genres.)
Shabbat is over - get ready to shake!
An Iraqi song about the mystical secrets of the arba minim and the Oshpezin.
King Solomon - the reputed author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) (which we read on Shabbat Chol haMoed of Sukkot or on Shemini Atzeret) - was so wise that he did not take anything he was taught for granted - thus, the slightly jaded and challenging tone of Kohelet.
Solomon also had a lot of questions about the arba minim.
“Who says that ‘the splendid fruit of a tree’ is the etrog?” he queried. “All fruit trees produce splendid fruit! [As for] ‘the fronds of dates,’ the Torah tells us to take fronds, in the plural... yet we take a lulav, the unopened heart of the palm. And who says that ‘the branch of a thick-leafed tree’ is the myrtle? ... And concerning the ‘aravot of the river’—all trees tend to grow near water.”As usual, various sages respond (the point of putting questions in his mouth in the first place).
More on the four species, especially the mysterious etrog, the first cultivated citrus fruit, dating back 4000 years.
Judith | 10/07/06 at 07:29 PM | Categories: - Chagim
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Love the music.
Rob | October 7, 2006 07:54 PM
