Study Sukkah folio 32B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And others raise it as a contradiction. We learned in the Mishnah: A lulav from the palms of the Iron Mountain is fit. But isn’t it taught in a baraita: It is unfit? Abaye said: This is not difficult: Here, in the Mishnah, where the lulav is fit, it is referring to a case where the top of this le
The Talmud describes the location of these lulavim. R' Maryon said that R' Yehoshua ben Levi said, and some say that Rabba bar Mari taught this baraita in the name of Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai: There are two date palms in the valley of ben Hinnom, and smoke arises from between them. And this is the
The Mishnah continues: A lulav that has 3 handbreadths in length, sufficient to enable one to wave with it, is fit for use in fulfilling the mitzva. Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: The minimum measure of a myrtle branch and a willow branch is 3 handbreadths. And the minimum measure of a lulav is 4
And R' Parnakh said that R' Yoḥanan said: The spine of the lulav, and not merely its leaves, must be at least 4 handbreadths long, so that it will extend from the myrtle branch at least one handbreadth.
The Talmud asks: Didn’t we learn in the Mishnah: A lulav that has 3 handbreadths in length, sufficient to enable one to wave with it, is fit for use in fulfilling the mitzva? That indicates that a lulav 3 handbreadths long is fit. The Talmud answers: Emend the language of the Mishnah and say: A lu