The Festival is, secondly, called “the Feast of Ingathering,” ‏חג האסיף‎. The produce of the fields and gardens have been gathered in, and the people rejoice before the Lord in gratitude for the blessings which He has granted to them. “And ye shall take unto you on the first day the fruit of the goodly tree, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick-leaved trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days” (Lev. xxiii. 40). In accordance with the traditional interpretation of this verse, we take four kinds of plants (‏ארבעה מינין‎), viz., ‏אתרוג‎ “the citron;” ‏לולב‎, “a branch of the palm-tree;” ‏הדסים‎, three “myrtle branches;” and ‏ערבות‎, two “branches of the willow.” According to a Midrashic interpretation, they represent four different types of plants, that which has a pleasant fragrance and a beautiful form (esrog); the beautiful in form, but without fragrance (lulabh); that which smells pleasantly, but is inferior in form (hadassim); and that which has neither a goodly form nor an agreeable fragrance (arabhoth), as if to say that we are thankful to God for all that He has given us, although to our mind some of these seem imperfect in comparison with others. In obedience to this commandment we take, every day of Succoth except Saturday, [123] the above four kinds into our hands, hold them during the recitation of the Hallel, and make with them a procession round the Synagogue, [124] while singing the hymns called hoshaanoth (so called on account of the repeated occurrence of the word hoshaanah in them). Before taking the arbaah minim into our hands we say the following blessing: ‏ברוך … אשר קדשנו … על נטילת לולב‎ “Blessed art thou ... who hast sanctified us by thy commandments and hast commanded us to take the lulabh.” [125] On the first day ‏שהחינו‎ is added. Succoth lasts seven days, the last five days being half Holy-days, ‏חול המועד‎. The seventh day is called Hoshaana-rabba, because on that day many prayers beginning with hoshaana are offered up, during the chanting of which seven processions round the Synagogue are made. [126] The Feast of Tabernacles is closely followed by “the feast of the eighth day,” ‏שמיני עצרת‎, [127] which, like all other Festivals, is kept two days. The second day is, in addition, called “Rejoicing of the Law,” ‏שמחת תורה‎ because on this day the reading of the Pentateuch is completed and recommenced.