Mesorat%20hashas for Sukkah 3:13

יוֹם טוֹב הָרִאשׁוֹן שֶׁל חָג שֶׁחָל לִהְיוֹת בְּשַׁבָּת, כָּל הָעָם מוֹלִיכִין אֶת לוּלְבֵיהֶן לְבֵית הַכְּנֶסֶת. לַמָּחֳרָת מַשְׁכִּימִין וּבָאִין, כָּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד מַכִּיר אֶת שֶׁלּוֹ, וְנוֹטְלוֹ. מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאָמְרוּ חֲכָמִים, אֵין אָדָם יוֹצֵא יְדֵי חוֹבָתוֹ בְּיוֹם טוֹב הָרִאשׁוֹן שֶׁל חָג בְּלוּלָבוֹ שֶׁל חֲבֵרוֹ. וּשְׁאָר יְמוֹת הֶחָג, אָדָם יוֹצֵא יְדֵי חוֹבָתוֹ בְּלוּלָבוֹ שֶׁל חֲבֵרוֹ:

If the first day of the festival falls out on Shabbath, everyone takes his lulav to the synagogue (on Sabbath eve). [For it is stated later that the mitzvah of lulav overrides the Sabbath on the first day of the festival alone. Therefore, they would bring their lulavim there from Sabbath eve.] The next day, they rise early and come (to the synagogue). Everyone recognizes his own and takes it. For the sages have said: One does not fulfill his obligation on the first day of the festival with his neighbor's lulav, [it being written (Leviticus 23:40): "And you shall take for yourselves on the first day." And if his neighbor gives it to him as a gift, even on condition that he return it, it is a bona fide gift, and he takes it and fulfills his obligation with it and then returns it. And if he does not return it, it is seen retroactively that it had been stolen by him to begin with — in which instance he has not fulfilled his obligation.] And the other days of the festival, one does fulfill his obligation with his neighbor's lulav.

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