Putting the Tikkun Leil Shavuot back into Tikkun Leil Shavuot

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Background: This week is the festival of Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. According to tradition, we overslept that morning, and to "repair" our behavior on the night of the original Shavuot, the kabbalists created a practice, called Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Repairing the Night of Shavuot), in which we stay up all night learning what is, in effect, the Readers Digest of Jewish Texts --- the opening and closing verses of every book of the Bible, along with other key passages from the Bible and the Oral Law. At sunrise we then pray the morning service.

Except that in practice that's not what's done. Lots of synagogues have a Tikkun Leil Shavuot of some sort --- but it's usually some sort of targeted teaching and learning. Our shul, for instance, has a series of a half-dozen lectures set up for the adults, plus a separate overnight learning program for teens, and even a shorter program (that ends at 8:30pm) for the younger kids.

Query: But I've never seen anyone do the original Tikkun Leil Shavuot. I've never even been able to find a copy of the Arizal's list of what texts comprise the evening's program. Searching with Google is getting me lots of programs run by this shul or that shul, but not the Arizal's. Hebrew Wikipedia has a list that's not quite complete. Anyone?

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This would be a good question to ask on the Avodah mailing list: http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/

There was talk that they might be doing the original Tikkun at the Talner shul this year, but I haven't heard anything definitive yet.