בס״ד LUACH / CALENDAR FOR SHAVUOT 5780 Jeremy Donath Erev Shavuot Wednesday Night, 6 Nissan, May 28

● Tavshilin should be prepared — One baked and one cooked item should be set ​ aside and appropriate bracha made to allow cooking on Friday for . Traditionally, a hard boiled egg and matzah are set aside. Ideally you should do your own eruv tavshilin, but bedieved, if you forget to make one, one can rely on the Rabbi’s eruv tavshilin.The eruv foods can and should ideally be eaten on Shabbat afternoon as part of the Seudah Shelishit meal. ● Garbage pickup: If you have Friday morning garbage pickup, your garbage bins should ​ ideally be brought out to the curb before chag begins. If you would like to be able to bring back your bins after collection, before the start of chag, you can place a cheap disposable water bottle in each bin to make it into a bosis l’davar heter v’assur. Even though the bottle will be thrown out on Friday with your trash, at the start time of chag, the bins were designated as a means for transporting non muktzah items and therefore are not muktza and can be brought back to the side of your home. (Alternatively, if you forget the above method, you can always indirectly move them back to the desired location. I.e. kick the bins, etc.) ● Candle lighting: 8:02 pm ​ ● Sunset: 8:20 p.m. ​ ● Explanation for first night of Shavuot — On the first night of Shavuot, the custom is to ​ wait to daven and make until actual nightfall, tzeit hakochavim in order not to take away from the “Temimos” (completeness) quality of the 7 weeks of Sefirat Ha’Omer which ends on erev Shavuos. If we were to accept Yom Early, it would diminish the time meant to be part of Sefirah. As such, one should try to daven / make kiddush a little later on the first night of Shavuot. (Younger children can be fed dinner before chag begins as it will likely be too late for them to wait up). There are different opinions of how we calculate tzeit hakochavim. The more lenient opinions are 30 minutes after sunset (in this case 8:50 p.m.), and more strict opinions recommend anywhere from 50 minutes after shkiah (in this case 9:09 p.m.) and later. (There are also reliable opinions that say one can daven anytime before tzeit hakochavim and just wait to make kiddush until tzeit hakochavim). I am providing this information as I recognize there are differing degrees of interest in waiting for tzeis and familial considerations that some would like to factor into their decisions. For the bulletin, I used the tzeit hacochavim printed in ShulCloud/MyZmanim which is 9:09 p.m. בס״ד

First Day of Shavuot Thursday Night, 6 Sivan, May 28

● Ma’ariv for Yom Tov with the proper insertions for Shavuot. ​ ​ ● Ideally (as discussed above), Ma’ariv should not begin before tzeit hakochavim which is ​ ​ at 9:09 pm. ● Kiddush for Yom Tov with Shehechiyanu. ● Shavuot night learning/Tikkun leil Shavuot — Everyone is of course encouraged to ​ learn in their homes on Shavuot night as is customary. (You can even have a socially distant outside on a well lit porch/patio). Due to the fact that I imagine for many, this will be particularly difficult this year without the communal shiurim, I am including the following thought: ● A note about TIKKUN LEIL SHAVUOT The Magen Avraham [Orach Chaim 494] cites the Zohar that there is a custom to stay awake the entire night of Shavuot learning Torah. He suggests that this custom is based on a midrash that records the events of the morning of Kabbalat HaTorah. On that morning, the Jews all overslept and had to be awoken by G-d to accept the Torah. Therefore, to atone for this sin, we stay up all night showing our great love for the Torah and genuine excitement about Kabbalat HaTorah. Interestingly, the Magen Avraham [Orach Chaim 619, note 11] warns in regards to the custom of staying up all night on that if one's lack of sleep will hinder their kavanah for the next morning's davening, then they should not stay up all night. Perhaps one could argue that the same would hold true regarding the custom to stay up all night on Shavuot. Rabbi Yakov Emden [ Ya'avetz Sha'ar 4:12] states even more explicitly that one who will not be able to have proper concentration during davening should sleep a little bit during the night. He suggests that this sleep should be close to morning time as we find (in the midrash mentioned above) that the Jewish nation slept on the morning of Kabbalat HaTorah. Rav Emden does not view the fact that the Jews slept late as a negative development. To the contrary, he points out that if the Jews of that generation were not punished for sleeping at that time, we will certainly not be punished for sleeping at that time.

Friday day, 6 Sivan, May 29

● The earliest time for putting on one’s is misheyakir, which is at 4:27 am. One who ​ ​ stayed up for the entire night, should try to time davening so that one reaches the Amidah at sunrise, which is at 5:27 am. ● Berachot for one who stayed up the entire night: ​ ● If one slept for a half hour at night, even if it was in the course of learning, one may recite all of the berachos. בס״ד

● The bracha of netilat yadayim may be recited when washing one’s hands (with a cup) ​ ​ after using the restroom, provided that it is after alos hashachar (3:43 am). ● The beracha on tallit (gadol) may be recited. If someone doesn’t wear a tallis and wants ​ ​ to fulfill the beracha on tzitzit, one can either hear the beracha from someone who wears ​ ​ a tallit or one can switch to a different pair of tzitzit (either before or after davening) and recite the beracha. ● Elokai Neshama and Hama’avir Sheina are usually recited by someone who slept that ​ night on behalf of those who didn’t. If nobody is available to recite those berachot, they are omitted. In such a situation, one should have in mind to fulfill the beracha of Elokai Neshama when reciting the beracha of Mechaye HaMeitim in the Amidah. If a member of the household who didn’t stay up wakes up before the learner who stayed up the whole night goes to sleep, that person can recite these two berachos for the learner. ● If one slept on Thursday afternoon (and certainly if one slept Thursday night), one may recite Birchot HaTorah. If not, one can listen to the berachot from someone who did ​ ​ sleep. If nobody is available to recite the berachot, one should have in mind to fulfill these berachot when reciting Ahavah Rabbah. If one fulfills these berachos with Ahavah Rabbah, one must learn a portion of Torah immediately after davening without interruption (reading the Torah portion would count). .המאיר לארץ Birchot Keriat Shema begin with ● ​ ● Shacharit Amidah for Yom Tov with the proper insertions for Shavuot followed by ​ complete Hallel with its berachot. וביום Shemot 19:1-20:23), the is) בחדש השלישי The for the first day is ● ​ ​ .Bamidbar 28:26-31) and the is from Yechezkel 1:1-28, 3:12) הבכורים ● There is no requirement to recite Akdamot when davening at home but one is permitted to do so. ● Mussaf Amidah for Yom Tov with the proper insertions for Shavuot. ​ ● Anim should not be recited without a minyan. Shir shel yom for Friday. ​ ● Mincha Amidah for Yom Tov with the proper insertions for Shavuot. Mincha should be ​ recited before shekiyah (sunset) which is at 8:21 p.m. If one is accepting Shabbat early, one should recite Mincha before plag hamincha which is at 6:47 p.m. ● If one prepared an eruv tavshilin before Yom Tov, one may cook on Yom Tov for ​ ​ Shabbat. One should try to ensure that all of the food that is cooked is potentially edible by sundown (8:21 p.m.). For this reason, many communities have the practice of accepting Shabbat early whenever an eruv tavshilin is used. This is the recommended practice. One cannot accept Shabbat before plag hamincha (6:47 p.m.). Friday night candle lighting should take place after plag hamincha, and regular candle lighting is ​ 8:03 p.m. and sunset is 8:21 p.m. Once the candles are lit, all of the stringencies of Shabbat are in effect. ● Even those who typically wait until tzeit hakochavim on the second night of Shavuot for temimot/sefeika d’yoma, allow for accepting shabbos early such as this year, and one does not need to wait until tzeis to have their meal. Nonetheless, it is preferable to eat a kezayit of bread after tzeis (9:09 p.m.) to have part of one’s seudas yom tov when it is definitely considered the second day of chag. בס״ד

.להדליק נר של שבת ויום טוב The beracha for candle lighting is ● ​ ​

Second Day of Shavuot ​(Chutz LaAretz) Friday night, 7 Sivan, May 29

במה We also omit .מזמור שיר ליום השבת is recited that begins with קבלת שבת An abridged ● ​ ​ .מדליקין .before the Amidah וידבר and ושמרו We recite both ● ● Ma’ariv Amidah is for Yom Tov with proper insertions for Shavuot and Shabbat. ​ ● Vayechulu is recited after the Amidah followed by Aleinu. ​ .יום הששי Kiddush for Yom Tov with proper Shabbat insertions. Kiddush begins with ● ​ Shehechiyanu is recited.

Shabbat Day, 7 Sivan, May 30

.ק-ל אדון followed by הכל יודוך Birchat Keriat Shema begin with ● ​ ● Shacharit Amidah for Yom Tov with the proper insertions for Shavuot and Shabbat, ​ followed by complete Hallel with its berachot. ● Megillat Rut is traditionally recited with the tzibur and the custom to read Megillat Rut ​ was clearly instituted only for a tzibur. Nonetheless, one may read Megillat Rut without a tzibur. One should be conscious of the fact that such a reading would not constitute a fulfillment of the original minhag. Devarim 14:22-16:17), the maftir is) עשר תעשר The Torah reading for the second day is ● Bamidbar 28:26-31) and the haftarah is from Chabakuk 2:20-3:19. One may) וביום הבכורים recite Yetziv Pitgam (though it is not required). ● Yizkor can be recited without a minyan. One should make sure to pledge money to tzedakah before reciting Yizkor. (If you recited Yizkor on zoom on erev Shavuot, you do not need to say it again) ● Av HaRachamim should be recited (even if one does not recite Yizkor). ● Mussaf for Yom Tov with proper insertions for Shavuot and Shabbat. ● Anim Zemirot should not be recited without a minyan. Shir shel yom for Shabbat. ● Mincha for Yom Tov with proper insertions for Shavuot and Shabbat. ● Shekiyah (sunset) is at 8:22 p.m. Mincha should be completed before shekiyah and Seudah Shelishit should begin before shekiyah. (reminder to eat the eruv tavshilin!)

Motzei Shabbat & Chag Saturday Night, 8 Sivan, May 30

● Weekday Amidah should be recited including Atah Chonantanu. ​ .is recited ויהי נועם ● ● Kiddush Levanah should be recited (weather permitting). ​ בס״ד

● Shabbat/Yom Tov is over at 9:12 p.m. ​ ● is the standard Havdalah for Motzei Shabbos. ​ Sunday Day, 8 Sivan, May 31

● We do not resume saying tachanun until after the 12th of Sivan, so the first day of ​ ​ resuming tachanun is Friday, June 5th (the 13th of Sivan) (for those who have been adding Avinu Malkeinu during the pandemic, one should only be saying it on days when one also says tachanun).