Lulav Backpack

I've been too busy dealing with the continuing market meltdown to post but I didn't want to let Succos go by without some thoughts.

1. As a keen observer of the human condition, I noticed the proliferation of the Lulav Backpack. Similar to a canvas guitar case that you strap on your back, the Lulav backpack also contains a place for your esrog. Very shtoddy.

There is no limit to the imagination of Jews when it comes to making ritual observance easier.

2. The davening at our shul was nice overall, albeit a little long for me. The overall WQ, especially on Simchas Torah, was very high (as one would expect) but not of Biblical proportions. There were two incidents, however (that, sadly, I am constrained from retelling), that in-and-of-themselves did momentarily spike the WQ to heights it has never before reached.