Four Species

Sukkot 2026: Bend-ability

The sukkah suggests unity through sameness. Everyone sits beneath the same fragile roof, exposed to the same elements.

BOUND TOGETHER: Morning prayers in Katzrin, Sukkot 2025.
EXAMINING AN ETROG.

Sukkot 2026: The refined person

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and his students hold the Four Species as they attend a morning prayer during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Katzrin, northern Israel, on October 12, 2025.

Gov't warns against bringing Four Species into Israel without authorization ahead of Sukkot

TWO HASSIDIC children carrying ‘schach’: Beneath it, we find shelter.

Sukkot 2025: ‘How beautiful was the journey’


Harvesting for Sukkot: A look at the farmers who grow the holiday's Four Species

The farmers who grow the Four Species that symbolize the holiday of Sukkot.

  SHDEYUR AVRAHAMI is seen alongside etrogim for Sukkot.

Faulty shelters, resilient beauty: Sukkot and safety during wartime - opinion

As we push forward toward even more advanced, hermetically-sealing laser technology, we pray that God continues to guide us and protect us from the demonic forces that darken our skies.

 An Israeli family is seen in a bomb shelter in Safed during a wave of Iranian missiles, on October 1, 2024.

Sukkot: Despite everything - together!

When we take hold of the Four Species, we remember that we are one inseparable nation, despite our disagreements and the differences in our lifestyles.

 Shopping in Tel Aviv's Four Species market ahead of Sukkot.

American Jewish author Dara Horn trains her robot to shake a lulav

The fun little video made the rounds on X (formerly Twitter), and it points to what will only get more relevant as a question for religious authorities to resolve.

 Yada Labs Artificial Intelligence called Desdemona, with a robotic body, stands on a stage and answers questions of visitors during the opening day of the international consumer technology fair IFA in Berlin, Germany September 1, 2023.

Surgeons save two-year-old's sight after tip of lulav gets stuck in cornea

The boy woke up with a red eye after he and his twin brother were playing with the festive palm branch.

 ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS CHECK BRANCHES OF LULAV FOR BLEMISHES BEFORE BUYING THEM AT A SPECIAL MARKET IN JERUSALEM.

How my lulav named Sarah gives meaning to my scribbles - opinion

Enter the world of 'asemia' - languages with no intelligible content, but profound subconscious meaning.

 The language Hananya is creating forms part of a larger phenomenon in the communications and art world, called 'asemic writing.'

Ben-Gvir's chief of staff seen selling Lulavs, offering gun to bystander

He can also be seen at one point offering his personal firearm to a customer, which is strictly illegal in Israel.

Hanamel Dorfman, seen to the left of Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben-Gvir in a photo taken in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2022