<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
From</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/can-one-take-in-shavuot-early/2020/05/27/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20one%20could%20argue%20that%20one%20should,and%20allow%20for%20less%20time%20for%20continuous%20learning." id="LPlnk">https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/can-one-take-in-shavuot-early/2020/05/27/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20one%20could%20argue%20that%20one%20should,and%20allow%20for%20less%20time%20for%20continuous%20learning.</a><br>
</div>
<div class="_Entity _EType_OWALinkPreview _EId_OWALinkPreview _EReadonly_1">
<div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuamV3aXNocHJlc3MuY29tL2p1ZGFpc20vaGFsYWNoYS1oYXNoa2FmYS9jYW4tb25lLXRha2UtaW4tc2hhdnVvdC1lYXJseS8yMDIwLzA1LzI3LyM6fjp0ZXh0PUluJTIwZmFjdCUyQyUyMG9uZSUyMGNvdWxkJTIwYXJndWUlMjB0aGF0JTIwb25lJTIwc2hvdWxkLGFuZCUyMGFsbG93JTIwZm9yJTIwbGVzcyUyMHRpbWUlMjBmb3IlMjBjb250aW51b3VzJTIwbGVhcm5pbmcu" class="LPBorder139787" style="width: 100%; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; position: relative; max-width: 800px; min-width: 424px;">
<table id="LPContainer139787" role="presentation" style="padding: 12px 36px 12px 12px; width: 100%; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-radius: 2px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="border-spacing: 0px;" valign="top">
<td>
<div id="LPImageContainer139787" style="position: relative; margin-right: 12px; height: 170.4px; overflow: hidden; width: 240px;">
<a target="_blank" id="LPImageAnchor139787" href="https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/can-one-take-in-shavuot-early/2020/05/27/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20one%20could%20argue%20that%20one%20should,and%20allow%20for%20less%20time%20for%20continuous%20learning."><img id="LPThumbnailImageId139787" alt="" style="display: block;" width="240" height="170" src="https://www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Hoffman-083118-Sunset.jpg"></a></div>
</td>
<td style="width: 100%;">
<div id="LPTitle139787" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_light", "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor139787" href="https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/halacha-hashkafa/can-one-take-in-shavuot-early/2020/05/27/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20one%20could%20argue%20that%20one%20should,and%20allow%20for%20less%20time%20for%20continuous%20learning." style="text-decoration: none; color:var(--themePrimary);">Can
One Take In Shavuot Early? | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman | 4 Sivan 5780 – May 27, 2020 | JewishPress.com</a></div>
<div id="LPDescription139787" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;">
The practice to wait until tzeit ha'kochavim has no basis in Chazal or Rishonim.</div>
<div id="LPMetadata139787" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(166, 166, 166); font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;">
www.jewishpress.com</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<p>In the summer, people commonly avoid eating a very late Friday evening meal by accepting Shabbat early and beginning the repast well before dark. But on Shavuot – which falls near the height of the summer – many refuse to avail themselves of this option
and insist on <em>davening </em>Maariv and making <em>Kiddush</em> after nightfall.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Eating so late, however, is difficult for many people – and becomes even more difficult the farther north one resides. It is astonishing, then, that this practice is so entrenched, especially since it has no basis in Chazal or the Rishonim. According to
strict Talmudic law, it seems one may <em>daven</em> Maariv and make <em>Kiddush</em> after
<em>plag ha’mincha </em>on Erev Shavuot just as one may do so on Erev Shabbat (<em>Berachot</em> 27b; cf. Tosafot,
<em>Pesachim</em> 99b s.v. “<em>ad</em>”).</p>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
See the above URL for more.</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Also see the selections at <a href="http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/maariv_on_shavuous.pdf">
http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/maariv_on_shavuous.pdf</a> that are taken from the sefer
<i>Sheirushei Minhag Ashkenaz</i>, volume 4, by Rabbi Benyamin Shlomo Hamburger.
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
YL<br>
</div>
</body>
</html>