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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 | ===Learning All Night=== | ||
# 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> | # 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> | ||
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# If yeshiva boys would prefer to learn gemara rather than reading the tikkun for shavuot, there is no need to stop them because they have on who to rely. However, if most of the congregation is reading the tikkun, individuals should not break off to learn gemara. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 439, Sh"t Yechave Daat 3:32. </ref> | # If yeshiva boys would prefer to learn gemara rather than reading the tikkun for shavuot, there is no need to stop them because they have on who to rely. However, if most of the congregation is reading the tikkun, individuals should not break off to learn gemara. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 439, Sh"t Yechave Daat 3:32. </ref> | ||
# If, on account of the exhaustion of learning Torah all night, he cannot daven Shacharit in the morning with proper concentration, it is better not to stay up since davening properly is a clear obligation <ref> [http://www.ravaviner.com/2013/05/laws-of-staying-awake-all-night-on.html Rav Shlomo Aviner] </ref> | # If, on account of the exhaustion of learning Torah all night, he cannot daven Shacharit in the morning with proper concentration, it is better not to stay up since davening properly is a clear obligation <ref> [http://www.ravaviner.com/2013/05/laws-of-staying-awake-all-night-on.html Rav Shlomo Aviner] </ref> | ||
===Starting Early on the Second Night=== | |||
# Some say that one may recite kiddush early on yom tov sheni.<ref> Ben Ish Chai Bamidbar 2. </ref> | |||
==Shavuot morning== | ==Shavuot morning== | ||
