[Avodah] lulav waving

[Eli Turkel]

I gave a drasha in my shul about lulav waving and mentioned various
shitot about the directions in terms of east, etc.

Several people complained afterwards that their siddur, eg Artscroll mentioned
front, right, back, left, up, down

The MB explicitly says one should face east and then the above hold.
I have seen opinions that if one cant face east then what is important
is the global
directions east, north etc.
Does anyone indeed say that what is important is front, right etc.

In our shul all the seats and Aron Kodesh face south (Jerusalem is south east)
and people do the lulav waving facing south and front,right etc. which to me
doesnt seem right.

A second topic was that I said to do 2 wavings per word for ana
(hashem) hoshea na.
Some people said their minhag was to do one waving per syllable meaning
2 for ana, 3 for hoshea and 1 for na. Does anyone know a source for this?

Finally, someone pointed out that the first and last letters of the Torah are
bet, lamed.
The forst and last letters of Nach are vav, lamed
which spells lulav

Those outside of EY I hope you enjoyed your 3 day yom-tov-shabbat

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Eli Turkel