[Avodah] Shmini Atzeret - why Sukkah YES and Lulav NO?

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R' Richard Wolpoe asked:
> Why do we sit in the Sukkah in the  Golah on Sukkot but do
> not take the Lulav etc. on Shmini Atzeret? This  question
> has bothered me since I was a kid


 
R' Akiva Miller replied:




>>Shmini Atzeres in chu"l is safek Chol Hamoed. Sukkah is  d'Oraisa on Chol 
HaMoed, so we go safek l'chumra on Shmini Atzeres. Keep in mind  that on Shmini 
Ateres, we only go to the Sukkah for things which are chiyuvim on  Chol 
Hamoed, i.e., seudas keva (which includes large mezonos  snacks).<<


>>>>>
My husband has a simpler answer.  We don't do last-day-chol-hamoed  things 
that would openly contradict Shmini Atzeres -- e.g., lulav and  esrog.  But 
sitting in the sukka is OK because people might go outside to  eat in a in a shady 
booth even if it wasn't any kind of holiday.
 


--Toby  Katz
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