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How much do you spend on your lulav, esrog, hadassim and aravos?
What is the approximate going price for the arba minim in your town?
I bought all of them packaged with hechsherim from people in my community so I did not spend more than a few minutes. All together (I bought six sets of aravot as they dry out quickly) I paid NIS 111 (a bit less than $30).
Prices vary depending on location. Anywhere between $40 – $150 in Brooklyn locations
Arba minim are much cheaper in Israel. Generally spend between $75 and $100, but I find it objectionable that the vendors seem to set the price arbitrarily.
Yes, the street vendors are cheaper but for the same reason I won’t buy flowers from street vendors. They charge less because they don’t have rent to pay or any other attending expenses, so I like to patronize legitimate businesses.
I paid ?100 for a mehadrin etrog and lulav. Extra aravot are ?5 a set. This was on our yishuv. (At least one of our shules here offer free aravot during chol hamoed for those who need.)
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OOT…sales of Lulav/Esrog is part of the shul rabbi’s parnassah (as is selling chometz on Pesach).
I don’t know the going price 65 miles away in NY, here I just pay $180 per set for myself and grandsons (sons and SILs are ole enough to buy their own) and one set for use in shul by those who do not have their own.
This is just another roll of Ball Baatim that I am glad to fulfill
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They just sell them on the streets here via tables on the sidewalk and Pop Up stores that sell them along with some that sell other succah stuff as well
I bought mine for a total of 128$. 65 for the esrog, 60 for the lulav (it was a special deri), and 3 for hadasim and aravos…..
What’s a deri? I’ve never seen (or noticed) that word until this year.
Meno, Deri is a type of palm tree, whose lulavim are generally far superior to Egyptian El-Arish lulavim.
Joseph, it’s even cheaper to use someone else’s.
Hey, what happened to CrookedHillary?
I seem to have straightened out.
“I seem to have straightened out.”
Boruch Hashem!
I got an initial set for $15, including rings and the holder, on 13 Avenue.
I bought aravos for $3 a pack from the same vendor, and purchased 6 packs, since they dry out. Also paid $5 for hoshanos.
Nowadays I spend in the $100 dollar range for a set. When I was bochur in Eretz Yisroel, I used to wait until the very last minute (when the shuk is clearing out) and spend 100 shekel or less and get even nicer minim than I get now .
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