Celebrating shavuot with the mishpochah jews for jesus. Selections from makom las rooftop performance space during tikkun leil shavuot. Jun 16, 2016 the original tikkun leil shavuot was not staying up all night listening to shiurim. The paul feig tikkun leil shavuot at jcc manhattan is a spectacular holiday celebrationan updated version of the ancient festival of shavuot, when the ancient israelites stayed awake all night at sinai anticipating the revelation. A shavuot shiur on faith and wholeness in uncertain.
On the night of the festival of shavuot the first night of shavuot in the diaspora, it is traditional for jews to stay up and learn torah a centuriesold custom known as tikkun leil shavuot. Shavuot resources hebrew union college jewish institute of. Communities stay up to study for shavuot jewish exponent. Recipes, family activities, torah study guides for leil shavuot tikkun by rabbis rick jacobs, daniel freelander, jonah pesner. Shavuot is the time when the community gathers around the mountain, and makes pilgrimage to a holy place, for the ultimate transformative experience. The arizal s torah study guide from the introduction. Chaviva levin the akdamut legend and the premodern jewish quest for the ten lost tribes maariv yom tov ends. Youll experience performances, jam sessions, explorations, discussions, comparative studies, and roundtables. Tikkun leil shavuot an evening of food and learning may 19th dinner, davening, discussion and dessert. The holiday also came to be called, the season of the giving of the law. A contemporary spin on tikkun leil shavuot is presented by downtown jews, a network of downtown jewish organizations and individuals convened. Rabbi kaiman, along with jewish musician and rabbinical student ariel root wolpe will guide us through an experience of receiving torah with all our senses hearing torah, seeing torah, tasting cheesecake. The yizkor service is recited on the second day of shavuot, just as on yom kippur, shmini atzeret, and the eighth day of passover. Join your friends and neighbors for an allnight educational and cultural experience at the 11th annual brookline community tikkun leil shavuot.
We remain awake to show that, unlike the situation of our heavylidded ancestors at sinai, there is no need to bring us to our senses. Although tikkuns were later introduced for passover and hoshanah rabbah which is part of sukkot, the festival of booths this is the one most widely observed. Thu, may 28 fri, may 29, sunsetsunrise jcc east bay, berkeley branch join us for an evening of learning, inspiration, and unique perspectives during the kabbalist tradition of shavuot. Explore tikkun leil shavuot on sefaria, drawing from our library of jewish texts. What is the meaning of tikkun repair on tikkun leil shavuot. Uphold this tradition by watching and learning with the rabbis featured in these videos, and exploring the accompanying study guides. The countdown to shavuot represents the giving of the anticipated new covenant to mankind, since it was on this very day that the ruach hakodesh holy spirit was given. Created from the merger of reform and conservative synagogues in 1980, ner tamid welcomes all who seek a deeper connection to judaism through torah study, shabbat celebration and the doing of mitzvot. On the first night of shavuot this year, shabbat night, june 8, 2019, jews throughout the world observe the centuriesold custom of conducting an allnight vigil dedicated to torah learning and preparation for receiving the torah anew the next morning. You can start before the meal and continue afterwards from where you left off. Tikkun leil shavuot is one of the ways to celebrate the festival of shavuot.
It boasts selections from every parshah of the torah, as well as from the tanach, the tractates of the mishnah, and even major kabbalistic works. A tikkun occurs when one learns with a lev tahor, a pure heart and holy, implementable, new awareness emerges. This guide will focus on four issues connected with shavuot. What is of special note is that given the multiple uses of the term tikkun, it should not be lost that through the study of a tikkun on tikkun leil shavuot, we can achieve tikkun olam.
This holiday is unique in that it is not given a specified date in the torah. Study questions for tikun leil shavuot rav menachem leibtag on shavuot night, the study of torah takes on an added dimension, as we mark the anniversary of matan torah. Community tikkun leil shavuot in brookline jewishboston. The first tikkun leil shavuot high school bbq and shiur 7. Of course, learning other torah topics is perfectly acceptable, since the main. Smiths first yahrzeit will be observed on the 20th of sivan 5774 sunday, june 7, 2015. It is an allnighter torah study session on erev shavuot. Reuters last week jews around the world forfeited a night of blessed sleep by staying awake and learning torah. Genesis parsha bereishit 1 parsha noach 6 lech lecha 7 vayeira 8. Sixteenthcentury kabbalists in safed, when looking at this particular story, decided that it needed an act of tikkun, or repair. Pdf tikkun leil shavuot morris faierstein academia. It was on this day that moses descended from mount sinai with the ten commandments and the torah, powerful tools that allow us to remove negativity and foster abundance in our lives.
Create an invitation to your synagogues tikkun leil shavuot. Known as a tikkun leil shavuot, free jewish learning overnights are offered worldwide the night of shavuot. News and views from the jewish community in pittsburgh, pa. Genesis parsha bereishit 1 parsha noach 6 lech lecha 7 vayeira 8 chayei sarah 10 toldot 12 vayeitzei vayishlach 14 vayeishev 15 mikeitz 16 vayigash 18 vayechi 19. Sephardic tikkun leil shavuot the sephardic minyan will host the traditional tikkun leil shavuot during the first night of shavuot, culminating in shaharit precisely at hanetz hahammah sunrise. In acts 2 and 3, the new covenant records that the holy spirit was poured out at shavuot. Lakeview tikkun leil shavuot event anshe sholom bnai. Enter the tikkun leil shavuot, when jews stay up from dusk till dawn the night of shavuot the holiday that celebrates the giving of the torah. A night of study led by rabbi paskind and your fellow congregants saturday night, june 11 first study session begins at 6. Board calendar directories manual materials donate. A tikkun is also implementation of justice and healing based upon awareness.
Google shavuot projects and activities for tons of ideas books on shavuot every persons guide to shavuot, by ronald h. Joseph davis will be speaking at lower merion synagogue for shavuot at 3 a. This arrangement is intended to afford all jews a taste of the entire body of torah. Of course, learning other torah topics is perfectly acceptable, since the main objective is simply to stay up and learn torah, and indeed many synagogues offer a variety of torah classes on shavuot night. The next morning, the short shavuot morning service is unusually early, at 9am on sunday morning 9th june, so that those who wish can go to join the east kew uniting church 142 normanby rd at 10. Tikkun leil shavuot in celebraon of hag matan torahthe holiday of the giving of the torah please join us and be part of a living tradion. The counting of the omer is 49day period that begins on the second night of passover during which each day is counted with a blessing. The jewish agency is funded by the jewish federations of north america united israel appeal, keren hayesod, foundations and donors from israel and around the world. According to the shelah tikkun leil shavuot is obligatory. Featuring danny maseng, sarah lonsert, david kates, and yarone levy playing songs by sting, manos hajidakisthe ny. Tikun leil shavuot zereay lil oewz tvivbs lyl vqt tikun leil shavuot the night before the torah was given, the israelites retired early to be wellrested for the great day ahead, but they overslept and moses had to wake them. While not technically accurate, it is also not wholly inappropriate. The tikkun leil shavuot rectification for shavuot night consists of excerpts from the beginning and end of each of the 24 books of tanakh including the reading in full.
What could be more appropriate than immersion in torah study as part of ones. Study questions for tikun leil shavuot vbm haretzion. Tikkun leil shavuot the pittsburgh jewish chronicle. The tikkun which refers both to the study session and to the text used for it was the only observance developed specifically for shavuot.
Learning on shavuot night tikkun leil shavuot an insomniacs. We are responsible for kabbalat torah, receiving torah and putting it into action in our daily lives. The word tikkun in hebrew can also mean a repair or a correction. On the 50th day, the festival of shavuot is observed. In modern bikkurim festivals, children dressed in white, wearing floral wreaths, and carrying baskets of produce from their local villages and kibbutzim communal farms joined parades and processions to ceremoniously present their first fruits amid great pageantry. Tikkun leil shavuot correction for shavuot night was instituted by rabbi isaac luria, the ari and allows us.
The kabbalists explain that in preparation for the holy moments of the torah reading of shavuot morning the. The tikkun, customarily read during the first night of shavuot festival, has been freshly printed in a new clear typeface with russian translation. Shavuot is the jewish festival for the celebration of matan. Tikkun leil shavuot allnight study sessions will also be held at 7 p. Fascinating origins of tikkun leil shavuot reclaiming judaism. Jews and booze rabbis and prohibition in the 1920s 3. Its the fourthannual nighttime journey through conversation, culture, and. Most coffee is grown by subsistence farmers who are facing crisis as.
We celebrate the memory of our reception of torah at sinai by learning torah all night long. The holiday of shavuot is the second of the torahs three pilgrimage festivals. The original tikkun was a set text of prayers in which choice portions of the written, oral, and kabbalisitc. Please consider joining the 8pm worship service and 9pm study session with professor clifford orwin here at holy blossom temple. Many people recite maariv before the meal, go home to eat, and return to synagogue for the study session. In an effort to promote klal yisrael connectedness of the jewish people, several local synagogues and. In exodus 19, god tells moses to tell the people to prepare themselves for something that will happen on the third day.
Isaac luria reinterpreted the whole scheme of kabbalah in the 16th century, essentially making the second of two different versions of theoretical kabbalah. The origins of tikkun leyl shavuot are ascribed in the. The 16th century kabbalist, rabbi isaac luria, known as the ari a. Pluralism and its challenges shavuot is a traditional night of study for the jewish people.
Shavuot is the jewish festival for the celebration of matan torah, the giving of torah by revelation at sinai. We also welcome your ideas and participation in planning our events. On shavuot night we remain awake until dawn to atone for an error. According to tradition, we overslept the morning of matan torah the giving of the torah, and to repair our behavior on the night of the original shavuot, the kabbalists created a practice, called tikkun leil shavuot repairing the night of shavuot, in which we stay up all night learning what is, in effect, the readers digest of jewish. The tikkun leil shavuot is a work which contains excerpts from all twentyfour books of the tanach and all sixtythree tractates of the mishna, as well as other rabbinical works. Before minhah, we customarily recite the entire book of tehillim, as well as read megilat rut, and read the. One of the popular customs on shavuot is to stay awake all night learning torah.
Also included in this handsome edition is a collection of customs related to the month of sivan and shavuot. The ultimate nocturnal journey through culture, conversation and ritual welcomes artists, musicians, shamans, teachers, downtown scholars and rabbis along with more than 500 people from all over nyc. In kabbalistic circles it refers to a spiritual correction for some fault. Rabbi daniel freelander senior vice president, union for reform judaism parashat bo, exodus 10. An open debate about hot topics in the jewish communityshaily hakimian. The custom of taking part in a tikkun on the eve of shavuot has been adopted by almost all jewish communities irrespective of ethnic background, despite the fact that it is not referred to anywhere in the classical halachic literature. May 18, 2018 on the night of the festival of shavuot the first night of shavuot in the diaspora, it is traditional for jews to stay up and learn torah a centuriesold custom known as tikkun leil shavuot. This booklet contains the torah reading we listen to the night of shavout, containing specific segments from each parasha. Feed your soul with a special musical program by student cantor. Portable document format pdf is a file format created by adobe systems for document exchange.
Recipes, family activities, torah study guides for leil shavuot tikkun by rabbis rick jacobs, daniel freelander, jonah pesner, edythe mencher, victor appell, marla feldman, josh weinberg, yehudit werchow. The tikkun leil shavuot rectification for shavuot night consists of excerpts from the beginning and end of each of the 24 books of tanakh including the reading in full of several key sections such as the account of the days of creation, the exodus, the giving of the ten commandments and the shema and the 63 chapters of mishnah. May 08, 2018 what is the real reason we stay up all night on shavuot. In keeping with the custom of engaging in allnight torah study, the arizal, a leading kabbalist of the 16th century, arranged a special service for the evening of shavuot. Tikkun leyl shavuot 32nd annual tikkun leyl shavuot. It is the season of the giving of the torah, so anything in torah is relevant to shavuot. Its an impressive runthrough of our entire tradition. In israel the pioneers of the early 20th century who reclaimed the land refocused on the agricultural aspects of the holiday. Were celebrating a decade of traditional and innovative programming with another blockbuster night of communal learning. To this day, it has become traditional to observe shavuot by staying up all night and studying torah. Traditionally, shavuot commemorates an event that took place over 3,400 years ago.
Some other shavuot customs include decorating the home and synagogue with greenery, eating dairy foods and sweets as samples of milk and honey, such as a good cheesecake, and staying up the entire night of shavuot to study the torah tikkun leil shavuot. Shavuot all night learning program this years brs tikkun leil shavuot shiurim and learning is sponsored by jonathan and nancy charm in loving memory of his late aunt, sheila smith, sima bat shula ah. Among the more popular texts for study on shavuot night is the tikkun leil shavuot. God sends the plagues of locusts and darkness upon egypt and forewarns moses about the final plague, the death of every egyptian firstborn. Apr 25, 2018 tikkun leil shavuot saturday may 19, 2018 as shabbat draws to a close and erev shavuot begins, join us for an awesome night of torah learning in its broadest sense, dairy treats to nourish you, and the camaraderie of friends new and old. This marathon study session commemorates the revelation of the torah at mount sinai. Saturday evening, may 19, leil shavuot in the lile synagogue. Theres a very old custom among us jews to celebrate the feast of shavuot with an allnight study session called tikkun leil shavuot. The theme of ruths conversion to judaism is central to this story.
Shavuot is the climax of gods plan for our deliverance through yeshua, the true lamb of god. Shavuot, a beloved celebration and commemoration of the jewish people. Rituals for the holiday of shavuot, which celebrates the giving of the torah. Pdf is used for representing twodimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. The tikkun leil shavuot rectification for shavuot night consists of excerpts from the beginning and end of each of the 24 books of tanakh including the reading in full of several key sections such as the account of the days of creation, the exodus, the giving of the ten commandments and the shema and the 63 tractates of mishnah, followed.
However, he understood his new doctrinal revelation as no more than the true meaning and deeper systemisation of the zohar. Tikkun leil shavuot, the late or allnight study session on shavuot eve, offers a significant period of time that can be used for studying social justice and for engaging in tikkun olam. At a tikkun leil shavuot celebration, people stay up late into the night, if not all night, studying jewish texts, a tradition many are able to maintain only by consuming caffeine in particular, coffee. Apr 30, 20 some have colloquially come to refer to the allnight study session itself as tikkun leil shavuot. All in all, tikkun leil shavuot is a relatively recent development. We received torah shebichtav on shavuot, shouldnt that be what we learn shavuot night. The practice of tikkun leil shavuot is to dedicate one whole night to the study of torah and discussion. Join us for a memorable night of learning and celebration on the first night of shavuot. Which passages comprise the classic tikkun leil shavuot. One of the most distinctive customs of shavuot is tikkun leil shavuot, an eveninglong study session held on the night of shavuot. Originally a custom developed by medieval mystics, the tikkun is an event during which people remain awake throughout the first night of shavuot studying torah and then recite the morning service at sunrise. Learn all night at jcc manhattan, including an early morning session with rabbi witkovsky. The traditional syllabus for shavuot night, known as tikkun leil shavuot, is a summarized version of the entire torah.
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