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People use "lulav holders," or "koisheles," small containers of woven lulav leaves to hold their lulav sets (lulav + hadass + arava) together, as seen in the picture below.

A basket consisting of tubes on either side containing the hadass and arava and a hole in the middle that the lulav fits through

My father showed me how to make "lulav rings," those rings that hold the koishele (if that's what we're going to call it) together (not shown in the above picture), but those are pretty easy to make.

How does one weave a koishele out of lulav leaves?

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    I might post a Q/A set on making lulav rings, but I'd need to get my hands on some leaves for pictures -- I'd much rather do it that way than by pure text. This question, however, is something that I've been wondering for a while. – MTL Jan 12 '15 at 05:14
  • (though I won't make you write an answer with pure text; if you want to wait till Sukkos, then go for it :P) – MTL Jan 12 '15 at 05:41
  • Please do write one on the rings! I can never remember how to do them. – Scimonster Jan 12 '15 at 09:02
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    Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8cCtE3sPTs – Danny Schoemann Jan 12 '15 at 11:07
  • @Scimonster It'll have to wait until Sukkos, unless you can give me a lulav today :P – MTL Jan 12 '15 at 19:43
  • @Shokhet, are you in Israel? If so, can't you find date palm fronds throughout the year (I honestly don't know). – Noach MiFrankfurt Feb 01 '15 at 13:59
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    I'm in the USA, @NoachmiFrankfurt. I don't know about Israel, but I do know that Florida has a lot of palm trees around. – MTL Feb 01 '15 at 15:45
  • FWIW, I've decided that I'm not going to bother with a koishele next year. It's a huge pain (and I know how to make the loops) so I'm just going to make individual loops for the haddasim and aravot to keep them in place on either side of the lulav and bind them on that way. – Noach MiFrankfurt Feb 01 '15 at 15:48
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    @NoachmiFrankfurt The guy who sells you lulavim doesn't also give you a koishele with it? Every daled minim seller I've been to does that. – MTL Feb 01 '15 at 15:57
  • @Shokhet, in Boston, the only seller gives us a choice. I've always gotten mine with, but the eged around the koishele always causes a distraction. I actually took mine off on the second day because it was really taking up too much space in my hand (during hoshannot, my family holds all of the minim in the right hand so as to accommodate a siddur or machzor in the left) – Noach MiFrankfurt Feb 01 '15 at 16:00
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    @NoachmiFrankfurt Whatever works, I guess. AFAIK, nobody thinks that a koishele is required, though you should check out the question I linked to (which I just noticed you asked yourself ;-) – MTL Feb 01 '15 at 16:25
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unx7GKTimhg – Bumy Goldson Sep 19 '21 at 15:27

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Here are 2 YouTube videos that seem easy enough to follow:

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Here's an Instructable with clear pictures and text instructions:

https://www.instructables.com/Lulav-Holder/

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