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Tag: Kavanah (Intention)
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
December 17, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Choosing Light: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Noam Kornsgold
December 15, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Power and Promise: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Diego Ariel Vovchuk
December 15, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Pause, Wonder, Ask, Turn: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Annie Lewis
December 15, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Chasing Away the Darkness: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Dr. Karen Reiss Medwed
December 15, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Let There be Light: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin
December 13, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Kindling Justice and Compassion: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
December 13, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
Light Over Fear: Hanukkah Kavanah
Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Rabbi Eric M. Solomon
December 13, 2024
Hanukkah
Hanukkah Kavanot
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.
Rabbi Josh Ratner
,
Social Justice Commission
September 23, 2024
Elul
High Holidays
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.
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Rabbi Dr. J.B. Sacks
,
Social Justice Commission
September 23, 2024
Elul
High Holidays
כוונה לכניסת שמחת תורה תשפ”ה
דקות לפני כניסת החג, מתכנסים בבית הכנסת, לוקחים כלי חרס שביר ביד ואומרים האלה.
Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon
September 20, 2024
High Holidays
Holidays
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.
Rabbi Maayan Belding-Zidon
September 20, 2024
High Holidays
Holidays
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.
Rabbi Marcus Rubenstein
August 30, 2024
Evening Service (Ma'ariv)
Every Day
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.
Nichole Chorny, Cantorial Intern and Education & Youth Director at Congregation Anshei Israel
January 22, 2024
Holidays
Music
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.
Rabbi Ilana C. Garber
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Adam Berkowitz
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).
Rabbi Dr. Karen Reiss Medwed
,
The Observant Life (Book)
May 16, 2023
Every Day
Prayer
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.
Rabbi Alan Lucas
,
The Observant Life (Book)
October 3, 2022
High Holidays
Holidays
Kol Nidrei and Being Imperfect Together
Yom Kippur begins with the dramatic Kol Nidrei service, intended to annul vows made between yourself and God.
Rabbi Alan Lucas
,
The Observant Life (Book)
October 3, 2022
High Holidays
Holidays
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?
Risa Finkelstein Sugarman
September 19, 2022
High Holidays
Holidays
