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How the “Four Kinds” we are commanded to take on Sukkot naturally add up to one. This class reveals the deepest meaning and motifs to the mitzvah!

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 58 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

A closer look at the mitzvah of taking the Four Kinds on Sukkot, and what they each represent.

The movements we make with the Four Kinds each day of Sukkot are a meditation on bringing our emotions into balanced harmony. This meditation is grounded in the kavanot of the Ari, as explained in the siddur of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

On Sukkot we shake the lulav and etrog. Learn how to do this mitzvah of taking “the four kinds”.

The Midrash teaches that each of the Four Species on Sukkos represents one kind of Jew and concludes: “On Sukkos, all four Jews must join together, for each one completes the others.”

The two central mitzvos of Sukkos—the sukkah and the Four Kinds—have at their core the theme of Jewish unity.

Explore the inner dimension of Sukkah and Lulav, and how they represent two types of unity, two ways to impact the world, and two ways to bring Moshiach.