With Intention
With freedom comes responsibility. You were given free will. You have freedom to do what you want. Do it with intention.
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With Intention
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Why is it that such as small population of people (16 million in the world) have such a disproportionate face on success in so many areas? Why after 1000's of years of greater armies and horrific events (when greater sized cultures have perished) does the Jewish culture, people and religion persist and succeed?
I believe it is baked into the religion, culture and history. It believes and works very hard at the possibility of possibilities. Do you?
As I was walking through Time Square the church had a large sign telling people they are been lied to about G-d and you should attend their church. Maybe you should attend the synagogue?
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Interesting sometimes thought provoking Jewish issues
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySome thoughts on intention by others
- Misleading Intentions: In representing my firm, can I tell a white lie?
- Q. My industry research for my consulting firm requires me to call up companies to ask about their businesses. In order to allay suspicions about my motives, I tell them I am a student studying their industry. Can I continue with this practice?
A. Jewish law takes a very negative view of misleading practices. The legal term we use is geneivat da'at, or "stealing judgment." The terminology reveals the underlying ethical judgment: that misleading others is akin to stealing from them. - Kavanah
- Kavanah: The Mindset for Prayer
When you say the same prayers day after day, you might expect that the prayers would become routine and would begin to lose meaning. While this may be true for some people, this is not the intention of Jewish prayer. As I said at the beginning of this discussion, the most important part of prayer is the introspection it provides. Accordingly, the proper frame of mind is vital to prayer.
The mindset for prayer is referred to as kavanah, which is generally translated as "concentration" or "intent." The minimum level of kavanah is an awareness that one is speaking to G-d and an intention to fulfill the obligation to pray. If you do not have this minimal level of kavanah, then you are not praying; you are merely reading. In addition, it is preferred that you have a mind free from other thoughts, that you know and understand what you are praying about and that you think about the meaning of the prayer. - Intention is everything (click for article)
- "Intention is everything" - Rav Kook, Orot HaKodesh
Do you feel that Judaism - as practiced in our synagogues today - is lacking passion, excitement and inner meaning?
"G-d wants [what's within] our hearts."
"Humanity must go through extensive development before it will recognize the great value of the intention and the will, of the hidden idealism in the depths of the soul, which continually adorns itself in an array of new colors that disclose some of its treasure and majestic greatness%u2026.Intention is everything. The revival of intention is the revival of the world." - Kavanah (intention) and Keva (routine) (click for article)
- Our community is no longer in particular need of limits or of ideas so much as of meaning, a way to connect the scattered threads of our separate lives and tie them to a meaningful pattern, what he calls "connecting the dots."
How do you encounter Judaism with Intention?
Someone I know always keeps a $1 on top of his cash in his pocket to offer to someone in need. He began to do this when, if he went to offer money to someone, and they saw a $20, they always had a story for him about why they needed the $20. When he gives out his $1, he always replaces it.
Posted February 07, 2007
I very much like the idea that the intent behind the mitzvot is to bring people closer to God.
Posted February 02, 2007
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