Illuminating our Inner Strength: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Amalya Volz
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
May the shofar blasts become our catalysts inspiring us to civic participation and the preservation of our democracy.
דקות לפני כניסת החג, מתכנסים בבית הכנסת, לוקחים כלי חרס שביר ביד ואומרים האלה.
A ritual and intention before the start of Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah this year in 2024/5785 based on a Talmudic story.
Through using this personal kavannah, a spiritual intention, the recitation of the Sh’ma is transformed, and so am I.
By occasionally changing melodies, we draw from both Keva and Kavanah and invite ourselves into a deeper connection with our prayers.
Here are 5 kavanot, intentions, for the days and weeks of Elul, approaching the Holy Days. This includes poems, books, and self-reflection.
Our prayers are almost always a mixture of both keva (oft-recited text) and kavanah (deeper layers of meaning).
Following the Yom Kippur meal, candles are lit in a similar fashion to those lit on Rosh Hashanah. A Yizkor candle is also lit.
Yom Kippur begins with the dramatic Kol Nidrei service, intended to annul vows made between yourself and God.
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?