Jewish%20thought for Sukkah 63:9

אמר ליה רבינא לרב אשי ממאי דהאי כפות תמרים דלולבא הוא אימא חרותא בעינא כפות וליכא

Ravina said to R. Ashi: How do we know that “branches of palm-trees” refers to the lulav? ... Perhaps it means [branches of] the hardened palm? It must be [a branch the leaves of which can be] bound up, and this one cannot.

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