Hanukkah – Intentions to Pray Through

Prepared by Szymon K. on the basis of data obtained, among others, from Wikipedia. Link.

Technical matters concerning the idea and the construction of sentences when working with intentions.

Article “800 Intentions for Cleansing” Link

“Constructing Extensive Intentions and Prayers. A Skype Conversation on the Technique” Link 

“One-Sentence Pattern for Intentions.” Link

The word (–not) added when working with intentions to a particular word means that it is worthwhile to mention it as its opposite, or even independently, already during the process, to find and speak aloud any synonyms that come to mind together with their opposites.

For example — being poor people, sick people, it is good also to say it with its opposite:

–being poor people, sick people, –not being poor people, sick people

This makes it possible immediately to activate a given pattern as broadly as possible in different aspects, including its opposite. It is also worth knowing that Souls often think and claim that they do not possess such opposite patterns, for example that they are not idolaters, as in a given case, in a given word.

Another example:

The Soul of a woman denies having once been a bad mother. Therefore, adding here the word of negation — not being a bad mother — may allow her to understand the state in which she finds herself.

Being a bad mother, –not being a bad mother–

„Of course not, never in my life! These are not my patterns. What I do is my private matter.” [A Soul very often says or thinks this about itself.]

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, also known as, among others, the Day of Fire and the Festival of Lights, where this annual Jewish festival lasts eight days, beginning on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev, to commemorate the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 BCE, and is known for the ritual of lighting lights, candles or oil lamps placed upon a special Hanukkah lampstand and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, which refers to the dedication of the altar of the Tabernacle, compare Numbers 7:1, the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah 12:27 and following, and the dedication of the altar of the Temple, Chronicles 7:2, where the name Hanukkah is also explained as an acronym of the word ‏חנו‎, chanu, meaning “they rested,” and the letters ‏כ‎, kaf, and ‏ה‎, he, whose numerical values are respectively twenty and five, consequently giving the meaning “they rested on the twenty-fifth day,” and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, connected with events which took place in the Temple in Jerusalem on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev in 165 or 164 BCE, when the ruler of Palestine, Antiochus IV of the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty, decided to force the Jews to abandon their customs, traditions and Mosaic faith and to adopt Greek customs, and desiring this, that ruler plundered the Temple, placed Greek statues within it, established within it a place for the worship of Zeus and built an altar upon which he made a sacrifice on the twenty-fifth of Kislev in 167 BCE, or according to other sources in 168 BCE, and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, which arose because of the actions of Antiochus IV, which became the cause of the outbreak of a national liberation uprising called the Maccabean Revolt, resulting in the insurgents defeating the Seleucids three years after Antiochus IV had desecrated the Temple and, on the twenty-fifth of Kislev in 164 BCE, or 165 BCE, capturing Jerusalem and regaining the Temple and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, in connection with Judas Maccabeus carrying out the ritual purification of the Temple, but only one jar of oil secured with the seal of the high priest being found, where such an amount of oil should have been sufficient to keep the flame in the lamp burning for only one day, but the flame continued to burn for as many as eight days and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, treating it in the cultural dimension as opposition to and a struggle against Greek culture, which made it impossible for the Jewish community to live according to its own religious and cultural principles and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, during which the Hanukkah lampstand should be placed outside the house, Talmud: Shabbat 21b, or alternatively near a door or window in order to “publicise the miracle,” and the flame upon it should not burn for less than half an hour each day, while on the first day, after sunset, the first candle or lamp is lit from the left side, on the second day two are lit and afterward one more on each successive day until the eighth day, where the lights should be lit in order from right to left, which was intended to help honour the specific day of the festival more fully, while according to an opposing rabbinical school, from left to right, which was intended to symbolise “the growth of the spiritual experience of the miracle of Hanukkah,” with the alternative recommendation of lighting one light on the first evening and successively increasing the number of flames by one on each following day and, respectively, lighting eight lights on the first day and successively reducing their number on subsequent evenings, which was intended to imitate the depletion of the oil in the Temple lampstand and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, known for maintaining the fire, where an additional auxiliary candle or lamp called the shamash, the servant, is used to light the individual points of the lampstand, because it is forbidden directly to light one candle or lamp from the previous one, while the lighting of the individual points belongs to the head of the family, with acceptance that the hanukkiah should not be used as the principal source of light, and therefore the place in which it is positioned should be illuminated by another source of light and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, when on the first day, in the evening, before lighting the first point, three blessings are recited:

“Blessed are You, Hashem, our God, King of the world, who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to kindle the Hanukkah lights”

“Blessed are You, Hashem, our God, King of the world, who performed miracles for our fathers in those days at this time”

“Blessed are You, Hashem, our God, King of the world, who has allowed us to live, sustained us and brought us to this time,” followed by the recitation of the Ha-nerot halalu prayer and the singing of the hymn Maoz Tzur, and contributing to the third blessing being omitted on the subsequent evenings of Hanukkah, while after the evening meal, in addition to the traditional prayer, the thanksgiving prayer Al ha-nissim is added and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, during which public mourning and fasting are forbidden because it is a joyful festival, where in Israel Hanukkah has acquired a new and additional meaning because it recalls the rebirth of the Jewish nation, and living during this period in such a way that during Hanukkah prohibitions against performing work do not apply, while only on each evening of Hanukkah, during the burning of the flames upon the hanukkiah, women should refrain from performing their duties and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, in such a way that among Ashkenazi Jews the fifth evening of the festival has a special character, when after the singing of Hanukkah songs children are given “Hanukkah money,” small coins which were also given the meaning of a reward for diligent study of the Torah and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

– our own, and through us others’, being initiators of, organising, celebrating, opposing and promoting the Jewish eight-day festival called Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, Renewal, during which religion does not command the consumption of particular meals, although a tradition connected with Judith arose around pancakes, potato pancakes, latkes, fritters and doughnuts, sufganiyot, filled with jam, preserves or marmalade, that is, dishes prepared in oil and not only, as well as our own and others’ experiencing the consequences of this

Opublikowano: 24/07/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: Religions, priests, sects, idolatry, vows.

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