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<p>In Avodah V26#201, RDrYL wrote:<br>
> I still recall what happened one year (some time between 1968 and<br>
1973) when I was living in Elizabeth, NJ. On HR Rav P. M. Teitz,<br>
ZT"L, took huge Hoshanos. They were at least 6 feet tall and looked<br>
even taller. <<br>
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?). <br>
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All the best from<br>
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager</body></html>