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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.
- Rabbi Akiva Rutenberg - The Key to Successful Relationships: Intentionalitybeing intentional is true in our relationship with Hashem as well the Hebrew word kavana when we pray we want to pray with kavana what does kavana mean I would like deposit▶ Watch at 3:12
- Concentrating during our prayers at least the first Beracha and the end of each Berachapray meaning don't think that ah you know what I'm not gonna have kavana so I don't pray no you're still obligated to pray you cannot exempt yourself▶ Watch at 3:08
- 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
- Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - The World of Prayer: Shemoneh Esrei - The First Blessing - Part 1means we we can't we can't open our mouth properly and pray with kavana so we're asking Hashem please redeem ourem my mouth my lips are trapped▶ Watch at 12:40
- 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
- Rebbe Nachman's Wisdom #49 | Why O Why Do We Suffer? | Effie Sussmanwith fela a lot of times too like a person tries so hard to have kavana and to focus on the words and on every and on the meaning of the spira▶ Watch at 7:46
- TeShuva Test, Stealing Minds, Dangerous Dreams, Immodesty, Wasting Seed - STUMP THE RABBI (10)playing with your phone meaning talk to hasem and not your phone have some kavana have some intention when you're praying next thing is also if somebody's still not eating▶ Watch at 10:14
- Audio Yerushalmi Berachos (Vilna) 11-12see if that's true from the first pack we learned if you had a proper intent in the first paragraph however God so you don't need to prep and then▶ Watch at 45:27
- BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOU!playing with your phone meaning talk to Hashem and not your phone have some kavana have some intention when you're praying next thing is also if somebody still not▶ Watch at 3:37
- 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
- Gedale Fenster | How to Make the Impossible Possible | Meaningful People #86end up getting what we want in life get the intention right that's kavanah get the intention are you praying to connect or you're praying to get like that▶ Watch at 38:49
- Bitachon 151 - Israel's Attachment to G-done of the sages of the said that he had a day where he had proper intent in his prayer▶ Watch at 8:31
- 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
- Clip~ When Does Prayer Work?only AES that he has and explains this regarding people think what's kavana what's what's when you have intention in prayer so when you get that prayer you▶ Watch at 1:31
- Why CoronaVirus Hurting Religious Too, MIKVEH HETER, Kids @ Home & More - STUMP THE RABBI (46)full cavana it's toilet paper and it's hard it's hard to have kavana every single time works hard on your it's very hard I wish we all had▶ Watch at 2:00:05
- 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
- Daily Chidush - Hakol LeTova (Everything Is For the Good)made was like robots like we're talking about yesterday a prayer with no kavana is like a goof without a a prayer with no meaning no Focus it's like▶ Watch at 12:35
- 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
- YEDIDYAH MONTRÉAL: RABBI'S SON THAT FOUND RABBI AT 3 A.M l RTH PODCAST #20know being a this not what's the most important the most important is the proper intention▶ Watch at 47:06
- Amud Yomi Masechet Pesachim Daf 13Bintention but the was not done with the proper intention is it has partial kaduca but not complete kaduca meaning it has kaduca. So it has kadush and it's possible▶ Watch at 18:12
- KLM: How Kavanah Turns the Seder into a Spiritual Experience with Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreitdidn't have good cavana Etc vacavan is called kavana Saleh cavana of the heart which really means Focus was I focused was I engaged Etc that's Cabana so late what▶ Watch at 7:32
- 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
- Dr. Zimmerman, Rabbi Rutenberg, Rabbi Meirov, Rabbi Kigel | PARENTING & SHALOM BAYIT PANEL | CHAZAQimportant we know that kavana right when we D we're supposed to D with kavana we're supposed to live with kavana correct me I think it's in it says▶ Watch at 1:25:37
- MY COLLECTION OF THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE ZY"A ON: CHINUCH, OTD CRISIS, KIRUV & AHAVAS YISRAELsupposed to do is refocus and go deeper into your soul with more with more kavana with more intention go deeper into your heart so what happens is you get G you▶ Watch at 2:01:57
- Daily Mishna Berura Siman 95 Se'if 1-Siman 96 Se'if 1 - 7/14/23you need proper intent and proper kavana certainly in Shema that we spoke about the whole seeman about the Kavanaugh and how it's active and so on so says says same▶ Watch at 5:21
- Va'eschanan: How To Use Krias Shema To Connect to The Ultimate Sacrifices of the Kedoshimlife. Therefore, meaning those who died and those who have the right kavano there, the kavana and the fused together to create the perfect act of kdesh hashemma with the proper awareness▶ Watch at 17:00
- Breslov Efrat - Allow Torah to enter—it has nuclear power to clean the soiled garments. Just learn!you say lashma how would you say lashma in English with the proper intent▶ Watch at 15:01
- 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
- Daf Yomi | Yevamos 122general when someone gives that ruin is dead the is accepted whether he has kavana to give or doesn't have kavana to give now we'll see exactly what those terms▶ Watch at 2:47
- 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
- 21st Century #28 | The Power Behind the RedemptionRight? And that's the end of it. So, when they prayed, they had a kavana and what they said was, "Listen, you know, you can do whatever you want, which means▶ Watch at 48:06
- Bekiim Bahalacha 6 Day 47 Who is kosher to pour water on your hand for Netilat Yadayim?then there is no problem because the child, even if he doesn't have any kavana at all, it doesn't matter. If the adult does not have any particular intention, but▶ Watch at 4:06
- 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
- Chibut HaKever (The Beatings Of The Grave) - MUSSAR Iggeret HaRAMBAN (10)prays when she prays pray with full kavana don't be a robot When you pray try to understand what you're saying and saying with meaning as often as you possibly▶ Watch at 1:04:22
- 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
- The Point Where People Give Up | Ten Minutes of Meaning | Tanya #35what's translate the wordsuma Huh? Kavana means intense intent, intense concentration. Atsuma. But my friend Raavski shared with me this morning that the Tavana says brought down that just▶ Watch at 11:52
- The Transcendent Wisdom of Simplicity (Class Trip With Rebbe Nachman #43 - SH 51e)mind-centric and the minute that those kabbalistic intentions start to detract from the simple kavana of wave which means i want to be doing this and i want that my doing▶ Watch at 23:32
- R' Yitzchak Shifman | Shabbat 12a - Amud Yomisimple translation you have an intense you have an intention there's a kavana there's a focus in what you're doing okay in the Mish when they did these which▶ Watch at 21:10
- December 25th - Christianity In Halachabesides those yeah their kavana is for people who are holy but not for um names of gods I so then Rabino Tam says even though they may they name the name▶ Watch at 13:43
- BO: Merits For Exodus Then vs Now | STUMP THE RABBI (258)see that lecture that prayer gives a lot of details about uh prayer uh about kavana how to do it properly what you should do before you pray what you should▶ Watch at 2:26:31
- 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
- Kabbalistic Tu B'Shevat Seder: Unlock the Mysteries of the New Year for Treescabana before you do anything you should say my cabana in my cabana my intention kavana comes from the word kun which means direction. My kun my direction the reason▶ Watch at 27:36
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