[Avodah] shavuot and YK

[Zev Sero]

Simon Wanderer wrote:

> I recall the suggestion that Shavuos principally celebrates TSBP – SA 
> HaRav says of staying up Shavuos night “ikar ha’eisek yihye b’TSBP”.

That is not the reason.  The source for the SAhR is Zohar 3:98a,
which is reprinted in the Tikkun Leil Shavuos:
"And the learning of Torah in which he ought to occupy himself on
this night is TSBP, in order that they be cleansed in (alt reading:
that he adhere to) the Spring of the Deep Stream.  Later on this
day let the TSBK come and be united with it (alt: them) and they
will be found as one, in one union Above."
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14354&pgnum=190

In other words, it's not that Shavuos principally celebrates TSBP,
but on the contrary, that learning TSBP in the night is a preparation
for receiving TSBK in the morning.

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