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 Summary 

 Mishna: 

If the first day of Yom Tov was on Shabbos , everyone would bring their lulav to the Beis Haknesses before Shabbos. Then they would come in the morning, everyone would recognize their lulav and take it. This is since one must own his lulav on the first day, and cannot use someone else’s lulav. On the other days of Yom Tov [after the churban; 32.6] one can use his fellow’s lulav.

 Rabbi Yosi: On the first day of Yom Tov which falls on Shabbos, if one forgot and carried out his lulav, he is pottur because he took it with mitzvah-permission. 

 Gemara: 

 Beraisa: “Ulekachtem” is plural, it means everyone must take the 4 minim*. “Lachem” means it must be your own. This the source for the law that one cannot fulfill his obligation with his fellowman’s lulav, unless it was gifted to him**.

It once happened that Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah and Rabbi Akiva were on a ship together (they were travelling to Rome on behalf of the Klal) and only Rabban Gamliel [who was the nasi] was able to procure a lulav for a thousand sus. He used it, then he gifted it to Rabbi Yehoshua [who was the Av Beis Din], he used it, then he gifted it to Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya [who was the assistant nasi], he used it, then he gifted it to Rabbi Akiva [who became the Chochom of the Sanhedrin after Rabbi Eliezer was deposed], he then returned it to Rabban Gamliel*.”

 Challenge: Why are we taught that he returned it in the end?

 Resolution: It is to teach us that a conditional gift is considered a gift. As we learn:

 Rava: “Take this esrog on condition you return it to me”**. If he returns it after using it, then he has fulfilled the mitzvah. If he doesn’t return it, he has not fulfilled the mitzvah.

 Challenge: Why are we told the price Rabban Gamliel paid for the 4 minim? 

 Resolution: To teach us how they loved mitzvos. 

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* Tosfos: Regarding sukkah, the Torah says openly “Every citizen must sit in the sukkah, and a limud is not necessary.

* *Tosfos: It is our practice to buy one set of 4 minim which is shared by the whole town. Since everyone buys it with the intention of being yotzei we say that their intention is surely to gift it to the person who is currently using it.

* Tosfos: The original gift was given with the understanding that they would all be able to use it before returning it.

** Tosfos: Although this wording doesn’t follow the technicalities of tnai, the gemara isn’t concerned with that now, but it must surely be made properly. This condition is not considered an “impossible condition” like the case of a get which is given on condition that the paper is returned.