Is it permissible to use more than the prescribed number of each
of each Min (e.g. ten Hadasim)? (a) Many Rishonim rule that one
is allowed to add as many of each Min as one wants. They reason
as follows. First, the Gemara earlier (31a) explains that
according to the Rabanan, who maintain that the Lulav does not
have to be bound with the other Minim ("Lulav Ein Tzarich
Eged"), the Minim all stand alone, and by adding an extra one of
any Min, it is considered to be standing alone and there is no
problem of "Bal Tosif." Even though a Beraisa there says that
one is not allowed to add to the Arba'as ha'Minim, and the
Beraisa seems to be according to the Rabanan, that Beraisa is
referring to non-Minim, and the Isur of adding such an item to
the Arba'as ha'Minim is mid'Rabanan. That Isur d'Rabanan does
not apply to adding an extra one of the Arba'as ha'Minim
themselves. The Isur d'Rabanan was enacted in order to prevent
one from thinking that the extra Min that one added (such as a
eucalyptus branch) is one of the