In our shul there are speakers every hour from 11:45 through to shacharis time (around 4 AM). Each one gives a shiur on a subject of his choosing (my two sons have each given numerous shiurim in Shavuos night (often the 2-3 AM ones, when people are starting to get really tired). The women are invited to attend (in the ezras nashim of course, and without giving any input) and I have gone for the last 6 years or so, 5 of which I stayed up through the night, and then davened shacharis with the 4 AM minyan), and last year I was not so well, so at 2:30 I caved and went home. At least I got to hear my then 21 year old baby boy give an amazing drosha on a couple of hours’ notice (because the original speaker couldn’t make it, after all). He took a concept he had learned in Yeshivah, and made an hour-long class from it. And nobody fell asleep… Pardon my maternal gaivah, but I think we can be gaivedig and even jealous about someone’s Torah knowledge, or at least I think it makes sense.
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