Etrog container

The coconut case set in silver straps was used to keep Etrog. The Etrog is a part of the Sukkot bouquet made of the four species,and, according to the tradition, it has to be shaken together with the date palm leaves, and the leaves of myrtle and willow on the Feast of Sukkot which commemorates the forty years of wandering in the wilderness. We know the function of the container carved from the exotic coconut because in 1690 in Kiev Shmuel’s son Hayim, apart from engraving his own name on the silver straps, also recorded the text of the Sukkot blessing which should be said at the moment of shaking the bouquet.