Tzabar with only a small portion of his lulav showing
You've gotta lulav this 2.7-meter-long frond
Jerusalemite Alon Tzabar is especially frond of his massive lulav, which he received from his father; 'It's the talk of the town,' he says.
The Yemenite synagogue Shalom V'Reut in Jerusalem is celebrating Succot with an impressively lengthy lulav at 2.7 meters.
The owner of the impressive palm frond, the Jerusalemite Alon Tzabar, said that he received the jaw-dropping specimen from his father a few days ago, and he was very surprised.
Members of the Yemenite community are known for their love of opulence when observing the Four Species—the more massive the better. Indeed, Tzabar was photographed both with his 2.7-meter lulav and positively gargantuan etrog and an especially elongated hadass that reaches nearly one meter.
Comments on his lulav were not slow to come, and it became a kind of attraction both in the synagogue and on Tzabar's way back and forth. He said that everybody stops him en route to take a picture.
The measure of a man
Such an exceptionally long lulav is naturally accompanied by exceptional problems: "Because of its height, the lulav can only come in lying down, and you can't put it erect in the house. So it 'sleeps' in the bedroom, next to me; that's where I watch over it."
