תלמוד על סוכה 67:6

HALAKHAH: ⁴⁷Sifra Emor Pereq16(6), Babli 34a.“It is written, and brook-willows¹Lev.23:40: You shall take for yourselves on the First Day a fruit of the splendor tree, date-tree palms, a branch of the rope tree, and brook-willows. The lulav is the young palm branch. While in the verse it is called “palm”, because the leaves of the palm-tree spread out from the spine of the branch like fingers of a hand, it is traditional to take a young branch with the leaves still tightly clinging to its spine. From this the name לולב “tube” (cf. Note 27).. I admit not only from a brook, from where also from an unirrigated place or from mountains? The verse says, and willows⁴⁸The plural and the prefixed “and” indicate the inclusion of two additional kinds of willow twig.. Abba Shaul says, brook-willows, two. A willow twig for the lulav and a willow twig for the Temple⁴⁹He disputes the admission of willow twigs from trees growing far from water by pointing out that willow twigs were needed not only for the “4 kinds” tied to the lulav but also to surround the altar (Mishnah 4:4). This explains both the plural and the prefixed “and”..” Then why was it written and brook-willows? To exclude the osier. ⁵⁰Babli 34a, Tosephta 2:7.“What is an osier? If its is like a sickle. It was stated: Like a sickle it is disqualified, like a plane it is (qualified) [disqualified]⁵¹The correct text is the (scribe’s); the [corrector’s] clearly is erroneous.. What is a disqualified willow twig? The leaf is round and the stem white. What is a qualified willow twig? The leaf is long and the stem red.”