[Avodah] Who First Said it? 3

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> Tradionally several halachah s'farim have told us to hang on to EG the
> lulav - in order to use it as fuel with which to bake Matzos
> 
> Nowadays this has morphed into using lulavim as fuel with which to
> burn Hametz.

The obvious reason is that most of us no longer bake our own matzos.

But another reason would be that the same sefarim also say to save
the hoshaana for burning the chametz, and I for one have trouble
remembering which is which.  I speculate that others over the years
have had similar trouble, and end up just using whichever is handy
for whichever mitzvah they're up to.  (I have humorously speculated
that this is why the people of Y'm were out on the street with lulavim
and hoshyanos a few days before Pesach, when Yoshke made his grand
entrance.)


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