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Kavana — Praying and Living with Intention
Kavana turns words into tefillah and habit into avodah. These moments from the shiurim speak about intention and presence, each with a link to watch.
- 06-04-2026 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 72Hashem's name. Don't you say baruch atah Hashem Elokeinu Melech Ha'Olam, but kavana. That gives a person a lot of power and▶ Watch at 47:10
- 07-15-2026 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 77why do you have to say to? He goes, "When I was praying, my kavana went down a notch. I wasn't saying the kavana properly." He said, "Because of the guns▶ Watch at 26:50
- 11-20-2025 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 47And so he says this is no different. The more a person succeeds in having proper intention while performing a mitzvah, the more he stirs the upper realms to awaken the love▶ Watch at 14:55
- Parashat Chaye Sarah - Soul mates and the Eshet Chayiltrue but the power of tafila is in a way that you need to pray intentions means hashem you know what kavanagh is kavanaugh means we translate kavanaugh today as as concentration▶ Watch at 33:47
- THE POWER OF AMEN WITH ASHER MARTINdoes it mean to say what does it mean to say amen with lots of kavana what does that mean so does it mean to to say amen is that with what▶ Watch at 1:05
- Orhot Tzadikim: Humility 1 | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahiever God forbid had to pray alone in the airport or something how's your kavana when you're alone? Okay? If you're praying with the same intention If you▶ Watch at 14:33
- Noah: Not Because Everyone’s Doing It | Rabbi Ariel MizrahiBut why did you pray? What was going on in your head? What was your kavana? You could shake the most beautiful love, but what was your kavana when you were shaking▶ Watch at 8:47
- Chullin Daf 31 Review with R' Eli Stefanskyyochal zach. If a person did feel a but he didn't have any kavana, kilulei tovel, it's as if he didn't go to the mikvah at all. So, you▶ Watch at 27:06
- 12-24-2025 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 52has to make a living work but deeper than just regular work. It means pray properly means as it says in to serve God with your heart means to pray with▶ Watch at 12:56
- Devoting Your Heart to God - Chovot Halevavot: Cheshbon Hanefesh - Gate 8called kavana kavana means intention really comes from the word kiun which means Direction and it's got two parts of it number one is what's your motivation what's your▶ Watch at 4:17
- CHAZARAH - Chullin Daf 12 | "Nothing but the Daf" with R' Eli StefanskyBeinum Kavana L'Shchita. Who's the Tana who says that you don't need to have kavana when you do shchita? In other words, you can do shchita if you did▶ Watch at 16:44
- Wealth & Possesions: A Jewish. Approach - Rabbi Mordechai Becherwhich is all your intentions your direction your aim should be sh interesting the word kavana means intent but it also means Direction what what's the K right▶ Watch at 20:59
- 09-10-2025 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 42the holiday. Come back into the light of Hashem. Sometimes we try to pray with kavana. Praying with kavana means you're causing the divine presence to come down. As you say▶ Watch at 43:53
- Standing Before Hashem – What the Amidah Is Really About | Preparation of the Amida | Tefillahmore conscious." The foundational book of Jewish law says chapter 98 you have to have kavana in your have to have intention. If you pray but you have no intention▶ Watch at 13:55
- Elliot Wolfson: Jewish Mysticism as a Garment of the Soulmetaphysical consequence, which is separate from that notion. Right. Now ideally, of course, the proper intention is required. So that's why you▶ Watch at 14:51
- In G-d We Trust Ep. 1you don't have the heart in it and the the proper proper intent and the proper belief that accompanies it then we haven't really accomplished it in its proper way▶ Watch at 16:40
- With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Siddur Otzar HaTefillos and his project to redo the Siddurabout let's sayra except for the first maybe the first you need at least kavana and you▶ Watch at 50:23
- Praying Alive: Standing Before God - Modim | Rabbi Shlomo Farhitell us that if a person says the if a person is incapable of having kavana what does kavana mean intention thought right focus if they can't focus through the whole▶ Watch at 3:48
- Episode 44: Chapter 23c - Story of Noah and the Floodless the maj like that that we're dirty with that we don't have proper intentions. We do mitzvah, but we're beautiful that we actually do the the actions▶ Watch at 45:56
- Mussar Mondays: Mesilat Yesharim 19 (Vigilance 10) with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbeare judged if you remember right they're judged perhaps they weren't with the proper intention it means it's a good deed right but perhaps it wasn't with the▶ Watch at 7:15
- "Reaching New Heights through Living Tanya": chapter 53seeking to grasp the concepts in one's studies and to experience the kavana the intention of these prayers because they're not really bound with action meditation alone has not the▶ Watch at 15:26
- Lag Baomer - The Hidden Torah | Rabbi Shlomo Farhiwhere. Fascinating, the word in Hebrew for paying attention and saying things with intention is kavana. But kavana also means aim▶ Watch at 27:42
- 01-28-2026 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 56the food and acknowledge it's the master of the world, you say, but your kavana is where the key is. Your kavana is that the fruit came from▶ Watch at 33:51
- Soul vs. Body - Tzav (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)ourselves physically. And it's very difficult to take care of ourselves physically with all proper intent. So you we're supposed to, for▶ Watch at 5:46
- Rabbi Jeremy Tibbetts on Jewish Mysticismthat you know what they're going through and their struggles. That's the important kavana [intention]. That's how he starts the book about kavanot [intentions]. All of the techniques are▶ Watch at 32:51
- Beki'im Bahalacha Day 18 Rabbi Eli J Mansourmeans critical they you must have kavana that means when you pray theid you should not get to Abraham within four seconds even though we all how to read it we can▶ Watch at 5:26
- Why the Amidah Is the Heart of Jewish Prayer | Tefillah Seriessim which is 98 which is talking about the you have when you step into kavana we said basically translation is intention but it really comes from the word which means direction▶ Watch at 4:09
- The Key to Consistent Spiritual Growth - Chovot Halevavot: Cheshbon Hanefesh - Gate 21life so if you now if you do it with kavana what am I actually saying why am I saying it who am I actually saying it to how bigger part▶ Watch at 13:00
- Rabbi Yaron Reuven is live!the blessings before they eat sure but they're not doing it with the right kavana they're not doing it with the right intention they're not doing it with▶ Watch at 27:56
- R' Yitzchak Shifman | Pirkei Avot 6:1Taanis and Gemara Maseches Pesachim that tells us there's different levels of intention, of kavana. You could have a level of shelo lishma, not in not uh for its sake. And▶ Watch at 4:09
- Hillel, Shamai and the Converts - Parshat Tetzaveh - Rabbi Dovid Kaplanall the sidur in a in a in a shul were printed with the proper intention then it would be impossible for people in the sh to talk during ding and the▶ Watch at 15:48
- Bekiim Bahalacha 4 Day 15 Siman 25 Whats better Tefilla Betzibbur without Tefillin ot Tefillin and yone of the the main reasons of is because of kav what does that mean kavana when a person is going to be praying by themselves so their is going▶ Watch at 1:53
- Daf Yomi: Zevachim 14 | Rabbi Shmuel Silberthings simultaneously piggle and right shalishma ultimately again just means having kavana for the wrong for the wrong type of carbon pigle means having intent to consume or to do some part▶ Watch at 9:48
- Do Your Job: Avoid Guilt, Keep Striving | Rav Dovid Gottlieb on Rav Wolbe (Alei Shur)completely vacuous of spiritual meaning innately. Anything if you bring the right intentionality and kavana to it can be transformed profoundly and literally into a godly act. That's why the med▶ Watch at 8:13
- Revealing Your Pure Essence: the power of the shofar | Rosh Hashanahgood for me so that's a balance so one of the highest kavana kavan which means intentions is Hashem I'm just doing what you want▶ Watch at 8:15
- Story of Hanukkahkavanas the intentions behind the mitzvah number four you have to have happiness and number five you have to really just yearn for it so again five levels the first level▶ Watch at 6:40
- Grasshoper Syndrome - Parashat Shelach - Rabbi Dovid Kaplancharge a lot. And though just to make sure, you know, gajing gajing gajing. Have kavana everybody. And by the way, a communal gajing works better. So, everybody together, please▶ Watch at 1:01
- Emunah Part 28: Spiritual Effort & Dailygiving.org (Effort Part 5)that we do in the physical world can be made spiritual if we have the proper intentions so should we put a lot of effort into having kavanaugh in our actions absolutely▶ Watch at 1:17:01
- Balak: Singing Cows and the Power of Torah | Rabbi Dovid Rosmanautomatically affected. Did the Did the cows have like special high-level you know, kavanas and intentions of that they're you know▶ Watch at 8:17
- Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Nitzavim-Vayelech (Video 147)Scher and as it was sounded now a lot has to do with kavana that means a person could be listening to K Scher and thinking about the brisket that▶ Watch at 26:13
- Purim Reimagined | Rabbi Shlomo Farhielevating prayer of Purim because I was able to pray a very special, unique Purim kavana, uh intentional prayer. It was I left feeling on a high. And I opened▶ Watch at 8:39
- The one story you must hear this Elul! R' Yaakov Kleinabout nine of the songs for each song they would tell me some of the kavanahs some of the intentions that had gone into the song and i was putting it together▶ Watch at 0:01
- Mesillas Yesharim-12-30-22-shiur90the manner or the performance in which I perform those actions and number three is kavana is intent again we'll discuss each of these items▶ Watch at 0:33
- Different Paths of Holy Tzadikim: Making Peace with Our Differencesoil. So Moshu Rabenu was thinking wait a minute maybe I didn't have enough kavana maybe I didn't have an intention proper enough and symbolically this oil represents wisdom▶ Watch at 5:47
- 252 Shelach Lecha Diamonds In The Rough 270616brother-in-law was his lifelong friend he would never ever have done this but Kavana with intention. But what happened in short? Raban went mad. He went insane. He was walking▶ Watch at 18:48
- The Prophets 02 | Shoftim | Kaddish | Devorah | Yaelthe Kaddish, the brochos with all their might. All their might means with all their kavanah - pure intent and pure concentration. After 80 years of peace with Ehud as their leader, the▶ Watch at 25:30
- Healing through the Three Weeks with Miriam Yerushalmi & Orit Esther Riter. Upcoming LA Getawaywhen you go to sleep at night you've got to at least have the kavana and the intention i i gotta let this go i mean i just gotta let▶ Watch at 35:06
- Parsha Noach with Miriam Yerushalmithe window represents the kavana the Kevan which means also cavana the the intention the the sincerity the approaching god with humbleness the ability to you know open yourself up to something▶ Watch at 14:38
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