[Avodah] direction of tefillah - lulav

[Zev Sero]

On 22/09/2010 8:13 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
> In our discussion of the direction to daven, many perform shaking of
> the lulav (must be better term) in the directions
> east, south, west, north, up and down
> or
> south, north, east, up, down, west
> according to this whether it is right or left or front or back first
> depends on where one is.
> i.e. the directions are in terms of geography and not right, left etc.

At least the ARI's directions (as I've seen them) start with an
instruction to face east.  So no matter which way you are davening,
you first turn to the east, and then the directions are correct in
terms of right, left, etc.


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