Related%20passage for Menachot 83:1

אין לה שיעור למעלה אבל יש לה שיעור למטה דאי לא תימא הכי כיוצא בו לולב אין לו שיעור הכי נמי דאין לו שיעור כלל

there is no prescribed maximum length but there is a prescribed minimum length.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The fringes may be as long as desired, but they must hang down for at least the length of four fingerbreadths.');">¹</span> For if you will not say so, the ruling 'And so, too, that there was no prescribed length for the lulab' would also have to mean that there is no prescribed length at all for it, but we have learnt: A lulab which is three handbreadths in length, long enough to shake, is valid?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But if it is less than three handbreadths in length it is not valid; so that there is a prescribed minimum length for it. V. Suk. 29b. ,mhmc');">²</span>

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