[Avodah] Lulav basket

[Dov Kay]

> >Do that constitute a chatzitzoh between the Arbo Minim being that the> >palm leaves used in those pockets are dried up?>> >I thought we pasken Like R. Meir that any binding is kosher.
 
R. H. Schacter recently said in a shiur available online at YU Torah that we hold that whatever R. Yehudah held was m'akev, we hold is a l'chatchila.  Therefore, there is still a mitzva of eged l'chatchila, which is why the Rema needed to explain how can do k'richa around the minim on YT if one failed to tie a kesher shel kayama on erev YT.  
 
The problem with lulav baskets (keisheklach) is that there may be a requirement of taaseh v'lo min ha'asui with respect to the eged, a requirement which a pre-made basket would fail.  However, even if one is choshesh for this opinion, I can't see one cannot simply tie the 3 minim together with a lulav strip while they are in their basket.  Perhaps he holds ein eged achar eged?  I should hasten to point out that R. Schacter did not pasken one way or the other - his comments were l'halacha v'lo l'maaseh.
 
Kol tuv
Dov Kay
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