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When, for example, Kirkpatrick talks about an etrog, he calls it an “esrog.”

On a recent day in Rabbi Chaim Teller’s class, two dozen 10- and 11-year-olds were learning about the lulav and esrog — the palm frond and citron that combined with myrtle and willow are brandished and shaken during prayers for the Succoth holiday.

They take away prayer-scarfs and leather belts, and bring in Corfu Esrog�m and earth of Palestine.

An old, thin woman, her head covered with a thin, wrinkled, pale pink skin, droops like a fine Esrog over her red kerchief.

Only this Esrog has two kind, serious eyes.