Netilat Lulav and Naanuim: Two Distinct Halachos in Right Hand Requirement

This shiur presents a comprehensive analysis of the halachic requirement to take the lulav with the right hand, particularly addressing the positions of the Mechaber and Rama in Shulchan Aruch regarding a left-handed person (iter yad). The Machaber rules that a left-handed person takes the lulav the same way as everyone else (in the right hand), while the Rama holds that a left-handed person takes it in his own left hand (which for him has the status of a right hand). The Rama adds that if a left-handed person took it in his right hand, he is still yotzei b'dieved. The Taz raises three fundamental questions on this position: First, from the Gemara (גמרא) it appears that the right-hand requirement is only lechatechila (optimal) based on the reasoning that there are three mitzvos here versus one mitzvah (מצוה) with tefillin, so there is no logic to make it me'akev b'dieved. Second, the Gemara asks why one who carries lulav to reshut harabim isn't exempt based on toved var mitzvah—why doesn't the Gemara answer that he took it in his left hand rather than answering that he took it upside down? Third, why don't the poskim suggest taking it with the left hand first as an eitzah for bracha over la'asiyasa, rather than the more difficult solution of taking it upside down?