Tikkun means a set order of something and refers to the order in which the texts are read. My jewish learning is a notforprofit and relies on your help. Passover is the giving of the torah to the jewish people. This arrangement is intended to afford all jews a taste of the entire body of torah. The lms tikkun leil shavuot program has been sponsored by. Recipes, family activities, torah study guides for leil shavuot tikkun by rabbis rick jacobs, daniel freelander, jonah pesner, edythe mencher, victor appell. It is a jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the hebrew month of sivan, meaning it may fall between may 15 and june 14. Mark berch has planned a full program of interesting sessions, including a play by rabbi seidel. A tikkun is also implementation of justice and healing based upon awareness. This booklet contains the torah reading we listen to the night of shavout, containing specific segments from each parasha.
Traditionally, the book of ruth is also read during services on shavuot. Which passages comprise the classic tikkun leil shavuot. Come together with new yorkers from across the spectrum of jewish life for a revelatory night of study, film, music, dance, yoga. Tuesdayfriday, sunday please call or email for an appointment. Brenda lerner and her entire family on the death of her daughter, anne lesley. However, there are references to the custom in the zohar, which first emerged in the th century but is said to have actually been written by rabbi shimon bar yochai. Fascinating origins of tikkun leil shavuot reclaiming. 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. 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. Tikkun leil shavuot a special service for the evening of shavuot, involving the study of jewish sources, particularly the jewish bible and postbiblical law materials all night on the holiday of shavuot. Using jewish values to think about security for our communityies rabbi david wolkenfeld anshe sholom.
The paul feig zl tikkun leil shavuot marlene meyerson jcc. One of the popular customs on shavuot is to stay awake. Rabbi simeon would sit and study torah all night when the bride was about to be united with her husband. This marathon study session commemorates the revelation of the torah at mount sinai. Tikkun leil shavuot tentative times event tifereth. Senior lecturer, netanya academic college 88 riets.
Many people recite maariv before the meal, go home to eat, and return to synagogue for the study session. After you attend, please fill out the tikkun 20 survey a unique communitywide celebration and night of learning, a spiritual journey bringing together people of all varied perspectives and affiliations. Containing deep secret teachings of torah, stirring dialogues and fervent. Learning on shavuot night tikkun leil shavuot an insomniacs. Portable document format pdf is a file format created by adobe systems for document exchange. Shavuot listen help info, yiddish shovues listen help info in ashkenazi usage, hebrew. Selections from makom las rooftop performance space during tikkun leil shavuot. Were celebrating a decade of traditional and innovative programming with another blockbuster night of communal learning. Tikkun leil shavuot is said to have been officially established by the famous 16thcentury kabbalist, rabbi isaac luria, more commonly referred to as the arizal or the ari. Most books on the holiday of shavuot will be shelved under. A night of study led by rabbi paskind and your fellow congregants saturday night, june 11 first study session begins at 6. Tikkun leil shavuot the tikkun leil shavuot offers an opportunity to pull an allnighter devoted to jewish learning. Pdf is used for representing twodimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.
Joseph davis will be speaking at lower merion synagogue for shavuot at 3 a. Families can replicate this custom and make shavuot a time when children are allowed to stay up late reading bible stories or watching movies with biblical themes while enjoying dairy snacks. 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. Tikkun leil shavuot dinner is presented in blessed memory of annabel rusty and phil lindy, who would say, the answers you get in life are as good as the questions you ask.
While this custom called tikkun leil shavuot is beautiful, jewish law prohibits. One of the most distinctive customs of shavuot is tikkun leil shavuot, an eveninglong study session held on the night of shavuot. 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. The word tikkun in hebrew can also mean a repair or a correction.
It is a separate appendix to the zohar consisting of seventy commentaries on the opening word of the torah, bereishit, in a style of kabbalistic midrash. 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. All in all, tikkun leil shavuot is a relatively recent development. This guide will focus on four issues connected with shavuot. 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. The tikkun leil shavuot is a work which contains excerpts from all twentyfour books. In this encounter we return to the traditional tikkun order that was set approximately 400 years ago. The first mention of shavuot connected to matan torah, or the giving of the torah, was in the 12th century, and the first time we see jews staying up all night to study is during the 16th century.
Among the more popular texts for study on shavuot night is the tikkun leil shavuot. Some have colloquially come to refer to the allnight study session itself as tikkun leil shavuot. Pdf tikkun leil shavuot morris faierstein academia. Lakeview tikkun leil shavuot event anshe sholom bnai. The 16th century kabbalist, rabbi isaac luria, known as the ari a. Joseph karo and the epistle of solomon halevi elkabetz. 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. The first night of the festival of shavuot is not one for sleeping in jewish communities around the world. Rectifications of the zohar, also known as the tikunim, is a main text of the kabbalah.
A tikkun occurs when one learns with a lev tahor, a pure heart and holy, implementable, new awareness emerges. It is the night when tikkun leil shavuot rectification of the night of shavuot a specific text comprising written, oral and mystical aspects of the torah is recited, followed in many places by study and classes until dawn in the holy city of safed, israel, where the text of the. The right column vocalized with vowels and cantillation has been pasted from the popular edition published by meir letteris and the left column unpointed shows a standard old scroll whose images were reproduced many times from. Ruth is a young moabite woman who married an israelite man. Weeks, is known as the feast of weeks or pentecost koine greek. A typical edition of an oldstyle tikkun koreim, with the text of the torah shown in 245 parallel columns according to the standard ashkenazic tradition. Join your friends and neighbors for an allnight educational and cultural experience at the 11th annual brookline community tikkun leil shavuot. Tikkun leil shavuot an evening of food and learning may 19th dinner, davening, discussion and dessert. Every year, part of the tikkun is held jointly with other synagogues and minyanim in the area. In conclusion we will examine the dictionary definition of the word tikkun. Smiths first yahrzeit will be observed on the 20th of sivan 5774 sunday, june 7, 2015. While not technically accurate, it is also not wholly inappropriate. Featuring danny maseng, sarah lonsert, david kates, and yarone levy playing songs by sting, manos hajidakisthe ny.
Rather than going to sleep, the members of the household stay up all nightand learn torah. Shavuot resources hebrew union college jewish institute of. 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. The tikkun which refers both to the study session and to the text used for it was the only observance developed specifically for shavuot. The original tikkun was a set text of prayers in which choice portions of the written, oral, and kabbalisitc. 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. There are also tikkun rituals for other occasions, like hoshanah rabbah and the seventh night of passover. A lecture delivered at the 40 th annual conference of the association for jewish studies, washington d. Known as a tikkun leil shavuot, free jewish learning overnights are offered worldwide the night of shavuot. These events, known as tikkun leil shavuot, are understood as the custom of studying with a community in order to reexperience standing at mount sinai, all of the jewish people, past and present. Community tikkun leil shavuot in brookline jewishboston. What is the meaning of tikkun repair on tikkun leil shavuot.
Shavuot became associated with the ten commandments and the festival became known as zman matan torateinu, the time of the giving of the law. Page 8 sisterhood prepares a fathers day breakfast. 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 books of mishnah. In recent years this custom has assumed new form following a growing jewish. 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. Celebrate the holiday of shavout at our annual jcc sidney n. Traditionally, shavuot commemorates an event that took place over 3,400 years ago. The textual basis for the ritual of tikkun leil shavuot is the following passage from the zohar. Shavuot is the time when the community gathers around the mountain, and makes pilgrimage to a holy place, for the ultimate transformative experience. We will learn what the zohar says about tikkun leil shavuot, read the bakashah that prefaces the study, and examine the writings of the ben ish chai and rabbi ovadia yosef. Tikkun leil shavuot programstikkun leil shavuot programs.