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Question of the week on COLlive.com: We are instructed to pick a most mehudar esrog for the yom tov of Sukkos. How much are you spending this year on an esrog? Photo

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$10000
September 19, 2021 7:51 pm

Why spend less when you can buy the best

That I'd like to see!
Reply to  $10000
September 20, 2021 9:37 am

Where can we see it?

erev yom tov
Reply to  $10000
September 20, 2021 12:14 pm

just go erev yom tov on kingston and get an extreamly mehudar esrog for 15 dollars

$260
September 19, 2021 7:55 pm

With Lulav etc.

Set
September 19, 2021 8:10 pm

Chinuch set is 55 USD on erev yomotov
Regular set is about 300 USD

100
September 19, 2021 8:18 pm

100

40 USD
September 19, 2021 8:41 pm

For a nice normal yellow esrog; that is already expensive for my budget.

You tell me?
September 19, 2021 8:52 pm

We pray everyday in Shmonei esreh
and are told to have in mind
A esrog, wine for kiddush and wheat for matzah when praying for sustenance

365×3 prayers a day

How much should it be worth?

$150
September 19, 2021 9:08 pm

$150

Menachem.
September 19, 2021 9:31 pm

So. I haven’t told many this. Absolutely honest n true.
As I get paid Friday every week. I would put away 5$ each week.
In an envelope, with Esrog on it. At the end of the year I would have aprox 250$ which I use for my set without feeling the financial burden.

This is a very special Mitzvah. Different then most others
ולקחת לכם – פרי עץ הדר
Doesn’t say that in any other Mitzvah. So I do this special savings to buy above and beyond that I normally would be expected to. Gut YomTov

How much did you pay for your new dress
September 19, 2021 9:45 pm

Or new hat etc.
a new hat can go up to $300 and a dress …. Or that meat for Yom Tov?
How much did you pay the lady to clean your house?
I have noticed very very rich people (the guys that has more than one house) that won’t spend more than a few dollars on a esrog.
It’s Really the “yetzer harah “

Good
Reply to  How much did you pay for your new dress
September 23, 2021 1:28 pm

Is good to keep a barometer on rich and not so rich!
NOT

Average?
September 19, 2021 11:39 pm

$250

Thanks for Tzvious HaShem sets -we will use that
September 20, 2021 12:44 am

Thank you Tzvious HaShem for supplying sets for $10 including esrog for boys – me & my family will use this only one.
Thank you CSSY – we will have YT food

Why we need to spend big money on Tishrej that we don’t have? If I had I would donate and support someone’s education that is much important to raise more stable next generation.

Esrog Maivin
September 20, 2021 12:52 am

Buy for yourself an Esrog that YOU like and that is according to your means- don’t buy to impress someone else or to show off… buy to be please only yourself and HaShem!

Spent little less this year than usual
September 20, 2021 9:39 am

Usually I spend around $200, this year I got a nice one in Crown Heights for 160

Anti-vaxer
September 20, 2021 11:56 am

The vaccinated will notice that the lulov bends towards the vaccine location.

Good question
September 23, 2021 3:18 am

It is a very good question, and I’m sure it’s on many a mind. To what degree is one supposed to extend himself on fulfillment of this Mitzva. My suggestion is, to feature an article on the subject from a person knowledge in Halacha on the subject.
A gut Yom tov to everyone.
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