Each group gets copies of the four photographs and answers the following questions:

• What are the people doing?
• What objects are the people holding?
• What questions do you have about the photographs?
• What would you want to ask the people in the photographs?

Using the source sheet, students work in pairs to further examine the background behind the photographs.

‍

• Have you or your family ever had your own Arba Minim? 
• Why do you think the people in the photographs chose to buy each component separately?
• How do the photographs enhance your understanding of the mitzvah (commandment) of the Arba Minim?
• What is the reason for the Arba Minim? What do they represent? (There are many answers to this question.)
• How are the Arba Minim used?
• The festival of Sukkot is also called zman simchateinu (the time of our happiness). Why is Sukkot a happy time? How do the Arba Minim add to or express our joy?
• Sukkot is the final harvest festival of the year. How do you think the farmers felt at the end of the harvest?
• What emotions, besides happiness, do you think are experienced on Sukkot?

‍

Choose one of the following individually or in pairs:

• Design an infographic of the Arba Minim. Include photographs and the requirements for each component. Suggested websites: Venngage and Canva.
• Imagine you are walking around the Arba Minim market where the photographs were taken and you meet people who are assembling their own sets of Arba Minim.Record a conversation with the people that you meet.(Note: Although the photographs are of Haredim choosing their Arba Minim, Jews from all walks of life buy Arba Minim.)
• What are they looking for when they choose the best one?
• What does the mitzvah of the Arba Minim mean to them?
• What is their favorite aspect of the festival of Sukkot?

‍