[Avodah] [Areivim] leil shavuot

[Daniel Israel]

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Newman,Saul Z wrote:
>    from Hakhel bulletin---This Motze'ei Shabbos will inaugurate 
the 
> "Shloshes Yemei Hagbala"--the three-day preparatory period before 
> Shavuos in which we surrounded Har Sinai to begin to appreciate 
and 
> inculcate within us the enormity of the Event we were about to 
> experience. ...
>
> in light of this, i wonder if there are any eidot  that forbid 
biah 
> [either on leil tvilla, or stam] on Leil Shavuot

R' Mordechai Eliahu, in his sefer Darchei T'hara does bring down 
such a 
minhag.  He includes it in a list of times at which according to 
the 
Ari, a ba'al nefesh should refrain.  He also mentions that 
"chasidim 
v'anshei ma'aseh" refrain on the three nights before Shavous as 
well, 
with the caveat that not all so refrain, since it is not mentioned 
by 
the Ariz"l.

--
Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu