Tag: Kavanah (Intention)

Illuminating our Inner Strength: Hanukkah Kavanah

Illuminating our Inner Strength: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 17, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Choosing Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Choosing Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 15, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Power and Promise: Hanukkah Kavanah

Power and Promise: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 15, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Pause, Wonder, Ask, Turn: Hanukkah Kavanah

Pause, Wonder, Ask, Turn: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 15, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Chasing Away the Darkness: Hanukkah Kavanah

Chasing Away the Darkness: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 15, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Let There be Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Let There be Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 13, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Kindling Justice and Compassion: Hanukkah Kavanah

Kindling Justice and Compassion: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 13, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
Light Over Fear: Hanukkah Kavanah

Light Over Fear: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
December 13, 2024 Hanukkah Hanukkah Kavanot
A Meditation/Kavannah on the Shofar and Civic Engagement

A Meditation/Kavannah on the Shofar and Civic Engagement

May the shofar blasts become our catalysts inspiring us to civic participation and the preservation of our democracy.
, September 23, 2024 Elul High Holidays
The Shofar Is Calling Us Toward Queer Reconciliation: A Kavvanah

The Shofar Is Calling Us Toward Queer Reconciliation: A Kavvanah

The shofar's call urges us to examine our own biases and privileges, to stand in solidarity and to advocate for change.
, , September 23, 2024 Elul High Holidays
כוונה לכניסת שמחת תורה תשפ”ה

כוונה לכניסת שמחת תורה תשפ”ה

דקות לפני כניסת החג, מתכנסים בבית הכנסת, לוקחים כלי חרס שביר ביד ואומרים האלה.
September 20, 2024 High Holidays Holidays
Intention for Simchat Torah 5785

Intention for Simchat Torah 5785

A ritual and intention before the start of Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah this year in 2024/5785 based on a Talmudic story.
September 20, 2024 High Holidays Holidays
Redirecting My Heart to God: My Powerful Sh'ma Intention

Redirecting My Heart to God: My Powerful Sh’ma Intention

Through using this personal kavannah, a spiritual intention, the recitation of the Sh'ma is transformed, and so am I.
August 30, 2024 Evening Service (Ma'ariv) Every Day
Why I Change the Melodies: Exploring Keva and Kavanah

Why I Change the Melodies: Exploring Keva and Kavanah

By occasionally changing melodies, we draw from both Keva and Kavanah and invite ourselves into a deeper connection with our prayers.
January 22, 2024 Holidays Music
5 Kavanot for Elul

5 Kavanot for Elul

Here are 5 kavanot, intentions, for the days and weeks of Elul, approaching the Holy Days. This includes poems, books, and self-reflection.
, August 17, 2023 Elul High Holidays

The Interplay of Routine and Intention: Keva and Kavanah

Our prayers are almost always a mixture of both keva (oft-recited text) and kavanah (deeper layers of meaning).
, May 16, 2023 Every Day Prayer
Yom Kippur Candle Lighting

Yom Kippur Candle Lighting

Following the Yom Kippur meal, candles are lit in a similar fashion to those lit on Rosh Hashanah. A Yizkor candle is also lit.
, October 3, 2022 High Holidays Holidays
Kol Nidrei and Being Imperfect Together

Kol Nidrei and Being Imperfect Together

Yom Kippur begins with the dramatic Kol Nidrei service, intended to annul vows made between yourself and God.
, October 3, 2022 High Holidays Holidays
Are There Only Ten Days of Repentance Each Year?

Are There Only Ten Days of Repentance Each Year?

Teshuvah in the 10 days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are sacred days, but what about the days before and beyond those?
September 19, 2022 High Holidays Holidays

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