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===Learning All Night=== | ===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 | # 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 live 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. <br> | ||
See Shavuos, ArtScroll Mesorah Publications pp. 66-70</ref> Some even stay up the second night of Shavuot in the diaspora. <ref>Ben Ish Chai Bamidbar 7, 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 | # The minhag to stay up all night applies to men and not women. <ref> Sh"t Rav Pealim 1:9 in Sod Yesharim </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> Rav Chaim Palagi (Moed Likol Chai 8:21), [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> | # One who generally stays up but is unable to on a certain year is not required to perform Hatarat Nedarim.<ref> Yalkut Yosef - Shavuot pg. 657 footnote </ref> | ||
====Reading the Tikkun==== | |||
# One should read the entire tikun which was arranged by the Arizal with much happiness and fervor on the night of Shavuot.<ref>Moed Likol Chai 8:12, Ben Ish Chai: Bamidbar 3 </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. <ref>Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 439, Sh"t Yechave Daat 3:32. (see there for an interesting parable from the Dubna Maggied regarding the Vilna Gaon). Chacham Benzion Abba Shaul (Or Letzion 3: pg. 193 argues that even a yeshiva boy should read the tikkun)</ref> 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> | |||
===Beginning Shavuot Early=== | ===Beginning Shavuot Early=== | ||
# One shouldn't say [[Kiddush]] on Shavuot night until [[Tzet HaKochavim]].<ref>Magen Avraham (Intro to 494), Mishna Brura 494:1, Moed Lechol Chai 8:23, Ben Ish Chai Bamidbar:2, [https://www.torahmusings.com/2010/05/starting-shavuot-early/ see Rabbi Ari Enkin ] | # One shouldn't say [[Kiddush]] on Shavuot night until [[Tzet HaKochavim]].<ref>Magen Avraham (Intro to 494), Mishna Brura 494:1, Moed Lechol Chai 8:23, Ben Ish Chai Bamidbar:2, [https://www.torahmusings.com/2010/05/starting-shavuot-early/ see Rabbi Ari Enkin ] | ||
