[Avodah] Birkat Cohanim on Hoshana Rabbah

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah V26#201, RDrYL wrote:
> I still recall what happened one year (some time between 1968 and
1973) when I was living in Elizabeth, NJ. On HR Rav P. M. Teitz,
ZT"L, took huge Hoshanos.  They were at least 6 feet tall and looked
even taller. <
My arovos bushes (planted many years ago from clippings given me by my
father-in-law sh'l'y't'a') have yielded "20 amos"-size stalks for at least
the last few years.  This year, one of the community-shul rabbis (Rabbi
Jonathan Schwartz of Adath Israel), the SHaTZ at AI's HR minyan, used a few
of those stalks for his chavitah ("beating" -- I didn't learn the Hebrew
word until I started used R'Artscroll's machzor for the Chag :)...RAF,
what's the word Roedelheim uses, aftelagen?).

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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