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elfsdh

Tikkun Leil Shavuot

Jun 15, 2005 00:22

The Tikkun Leil Shavuot is the traditional all-night learning session that takes place the first night of Shavuot. Every other year I'd been here, the Hillel had two tikkuns running concurrently -- one run by the Hillel community, and usually taught by members of both Conservative minyanim (the adults generally taught 10pm-1am sessions, and ( Read more... )

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thevortex June 15 2005, 16:04:55 UTC

Wow! My shiur this year was a different take on a similar topic, entitled "A Modern Look at the Amida."

Great minds think alike? =P

Huzzah!

The Vortex

elfsdh June 15 2005, 21:37:18 UTC

I would be interested in seeing what primary sources you presented and what take you had on the issue.

muchabstracted June 15 2005, 17:54:06 UTC

Eeeep. Four AM? Four AM? They were still that far behind? Did the people after you even present?

Anyway, congrats on having (presumably) managed to sound coherent at that hour in the morning.

elfsdh June 15 2005, 21:35:41 UTC

Yes, 4:00-4:30AM. They were that far behind. The person right after me was rushed beyond belief, and the person after him was trying to do a niggun-shiur. A niggun is supposed to relax people and prepare them to think of things on High, but, we were trying to take the room apart simultaneously... poor guy. The last presenter really wanted to avoid having to present, for good reason -- he was busy preparing the meal and didn't have time to prepare a shiur.

muchabstracted June 16 2005, 01:16:59 UTC

Ah, I had noticed that the last shiur of the night looked like it would be about "let's talk about Judaism because our brains are too tired to do anything else", so I'm not surprised the presenter wasn't too invested in it.

It sounds like there was enough adrenaline running to keep everyone awake, though.