Chapter 137 – Taking of the Lulav (a closed frond of the date palm tree and one of the Four Species used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (one of Judaism’s three central harvest festivals)) and the Hakkafot (ceremony where synagogue members carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times)
137.1) Take the lulav (a closed frond of the date palm tree and one of the Four Species used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (one of Judaism’s three central harvest festivals) together with what is attached to it in your right hand, and take the ertog in your left.
137.2) A left-handed person should reverse 137.1.
137.3) Remove the tefillin before taking the lulav on Hol Hammoed (intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot).
137.4) The order of “waving” in hallel is presented here.
137.5) Do not partake of food before saying the benediction over the lulav.
137.6) You may put the lulav back in water during the festival and add water to it, but do not change the water.
137.7) Do not sniff the aroma of hadas during the seven days of Sukkot; you may sniff the ertog though on the Sabbath.
137.8) On the first day of Sukkot, your lulav must be your own.
137.9) If two persons buy an ertog and the other species in partnership, they should be buying with the intention of mutually transferring their share to each other when each performs the precept with it.)
137.10) A minor should not be given the ertog on the first day of Sukkot.
137.11) A procession is made around the bimah during the first six days of Sukkot by all who own a lulav and an ertog, while the Holy Ark remains ) open until after the Hoshanot are read
137.12) Do not have a procession on the Sabbath.
137.13) A mourner on Sukkot does not participate in the hakkafot.