Daled Minim

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Checklist of what to look for when purchasing Daled Minim:

The following is a list of matters one is to look for to purchase a Kosher and Mehudar set of Daled Minim.

 

Esrog:

  1. It is a Calabria Esrog from Italy [not Kfar Chabad].
  2. Verify there are no missing pieces anywhere from the Esrog.
  3. Verify it does not have a broken Pitam.
  4. Verify it does not have a broken Oketz.
  5. Verify the Chotem is clean of a Chazazis or color change.
  6. Verify that below the Chotem there is not two Chazazis or two color changes.
  7. Verify if it came from Israel that it has a Hashgacha.
  8. The color is to be completely yellow.
  9. Bletlach are Kosher.

 

Lulav:

  1. Its spine is at least 32cm. and will extend a Tefach past Hadassim
  2. Its Tiyomes is completely closed on its top.
  3. The Tiyomes is double leafed from top to bottom.
  4. Majority of the other leaves are also majority closed.
  5. Tiyomes is not cut on its top
  6. It is not bent to any side. The Lulav is straight.
  7. The leaves are not bent
  8. Tiyomes is not dry
  9. Has a Kara

 

Hadassim:

  1. Is at least 24 cm.
  2. The first 24 cm from the top is completely Meshulash or at the very least majority Meshulash.
  3. Top is not cut off
  4. Remove random leaves

                                 

Aravos:

  1. Is at least 24 cm.
  2. The first 24 cm from the top has all of its leaves or at the very least majority. 
  3. Top is not cut off

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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