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# If one forgot to say [[shehecheyanu]] during [[Kiddush]] on Shavuot, one cannot say it after Shavuot even within the seven days after the holiday. <ref> Chazon Ovadia [[Pesach]] page 134 </ref>  
# If one forgot to say [[shehecheyanu]] during [[Kiddush]] on Shavuot, one cannot say it after Shavuot even within the seven days after the holiday. <ref> Chazon Ovadia [[Pesach]] page 134 </ref>  
===Learning all Night===
===Learning all Night===
# Many have the custom to stay up Shavuot night learning torah. <ref> Mishna Brurah 494:1 writes based on the Magen Avraham that the practice is to stay up all night to learn. He quotes Arizal who said that one who learns all night on Shavuot will long the next year without being damaged. He also quotes the Magen Avraham who explains that since Bnei Yisrael overslept on the day of Matan Torah we stay up all night in order to rectify that mistake.</ref>
# Many have the custom to stay up Shavuot night learning torah in anticipation of accepting the Torah on Shavuot. <ref> Mishna Brurah 494:1 writes based on the Magen Avraham that the practice is to stay up all night to learn. He quotes Arizal who said that one who learns all night on Shavuot will long the next year without being damaged. He also quotes the Magen Avraham who explains that since Bnei Yisrael overslept on the day of Matan Torah we stay up all night in order to rectify that mistake.</ref> Some even stay up the second night of Shavuot in the diaspora. <ref>Kaf Hachaim 494:6</ref>
# If staying up all night, and one plans on drinking multiple times throughout the night, it is best to make a [[Shehakol]] and Borei Nefashot for each drinking. However, if when making the first [[Shehakol]] of the night, one has explicit Kavanah (intention) for that Bracha to cover all other drinkings of the night, that works as well, and one would then not need a new bracha at each drinking.  <ref> Halichot Shlomo 12:3 </ref>  
# If staying up all night, and one plans on drinking multiple times throughout the night, it is best to make a [[Shehakol]] and Borei Nefashot for each drinking. However, if when making the first [[Shehakol]] of the night, one has explicit Kavanah (intention) for that Bracha to cover all other drinkings of the night, that works as well, and one would then not need a new bracha at each drinking.  <ref> Halichot Shlomo 12:3 </ref>  
# The minhag to stay up all night applies to men and not women. <ref> Sh"t Rav Pealim 1:9 in sod yesharim </ref>
# The minhag to stay up all night applies to men and not women. <ref> Sh"t Rav Pealim 1:9 in sod yesharim </ref>