Haha. Good for you for cornering the guy, but your argument isn’t really that sound. Once you concede that the lulav shaking is arbitrary it’s kind of a moot point to claim that someone should do it “just in case.” I mean, sure, maybe we just happened to pick the right thing, but come on, there are an infinite amount of possibilities, and you think we just happened to guess right to swing some branches and a fruit back and forth? That’s not even something worth doing just in case, because by doing so you risk granting validity to foolish beliefs. If I were him I wouldn’t have given in so easily.
brotherofurs – This person you know; what kind of problems is he/she struggling with?