Kavanah is a term we hear often in halachic contexts, especially around tefilla. Mindfulness has been a buzz word of late, as the challenges of multitasking, social media, and the ubiquity of ...

Jewish tradition captures the secret of prayer in the Hebrew term kavanah. But what exactly is kavanah? Since it comes from the Hebrew root k-v-n, “to direct” — in the sense of “directing one’s heart” ...