ORIGINS Tikkun Leil Shavuot is said to have been officially established by the famous 16th-century kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria, more commonly referred to as the Arizal or the Ari. However, there ...
Coming 50 days after Passover, Shavuot marks the end of the grain harvest and the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot is also one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three ...
the daily counting during home and synagogue prayers outlived the Temple as a symbol of the thematic links between Passover and Shavuot. Although the counting is usually recited in Hebrew ...