Sukkah 32 - August 8, 30 Av, Rosh Chodesh Elul

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Today's daf is sponsored by Josh Waxman in memory of his father, Nahum Waxman, Nahum Gedalia ben Yirmiyahu and Faiga Mina who passed away a few days ago. Yehi Zichro Baruch.

The gemara brings a list of disqualifications of lulav and delves into them. How do we know that the verse in the Torah “branches of a date palm” refer to a lulav and not to a different part of the lulav? What is the minimum height needed for hadas, arava and lulav? Tana Kama holds three handbreadths for hadas and arava and four for lulav. Rabbi Tarfon says: A cubit that is 5 handbreadths. What does he mean by this? What disqualifies a hadas? How do we know that the verse “boughs of a dense-leaved tree” is referring to a hadas, a myrtle branch?