Chapter 26
Plants and Trees
27.a. The rules set out in the previous paragraph with regard to twigs apply also to lulavim, so that, on Yom Tov,
1) one may put a lulav back into the water from which it was taken and
2) one may add water to that which is already in the receptacle containing the lulav, but
3) one may not change the water.
27.b. 1) One is allowed to wrap a wet towel around a lulav on Yom Tov, provided that
a) the towel was made wet before Yom Tov and
b) one normally would not bother to wring it out if it became wet, but
2) one may not wet the towel on Yom Tov.
27.c. On Shabbath a lulav is muktzeh, as mentioned in Chapter 22, paragraph 30.
28. It is forbidden to walk in one’s garden or field with the object of checking the state of the plants so as to determine what work has to be done there on the field following day. (See Chapter 29, paragraph 14.)
