Waving the Lulav

Chabad: ' is a reduced vowel — every vocal shva, always pronounced. - separates syllables that would otherwise run together.

How to read the transliterations

THE LULAV WAVE

Shake the lulav thrice back and forth in every direction. Upon each return of the four species, their lower tips ought to meet the chest (over the heart).

First toward the south

Second toward the north

Third toward the east

The fourth, aloft