The Gemara says that the Lulav ensures good weather by preventing Evil winds and precipitation, but why do we need to specifically shake the Arba Minim to accomplish this?
Movement implies life. It is the intrinsic sign that Chiyus still permeates a being. A pumping heart and a heaving chest tell us that someone is alive. A baby must kick and scream to prove its vitality. Death is called being laid to rest. It would follow that the more life we feel the more inspired and driven we are to more. This is the meaning of חבל נחלתו, we are sending shockwaves of lifeforce throughout the Olamos.
We know that the Lulav represents the spine. Its shape makes that obvious. Rav Yitzchak Issac Chaver draws a scintillating imagery based on the Zohar. We shake the Lulav a total of eighteen times. Three shakes for each of the six directions. These eighteen Na'anuim amazingly parallel the eighteen vertebrae of the spine.
The Jew is unique in that he "Shuckles" (see here, or better yet see here). It is the unique meditational sway that implies a spiritual experience is being felt and something is being received from above. When a Jew learns and he is a receptacle for the Eitz Chayim of Torah the eighteen vertebrae of the spine begin to respond in the form of a Shuckle.
So too, when we shake the Lulav we are changing the weather. The weather is the lifeblood of the world. This is Chazal's cryptic way of saying that we are drawing down Shefa and Chiyus (the life-giving forces that allow us to thrive and grow). The shaking of the Lulav is like the Talmid Chacham as he learns. It shakes in a reflection of receiving life.
More layers of depth on this to come...
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