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Audio | Sivan 5784: The Origins of Tikkun Leil Shavuot

🌃 The Kabbalistic practice of staying awake late into the night of the holiday of Shavuot and studying Torah has its roots in the Zohar, but was developed in Tzfat (Safed) in the sixteenth century.

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