Shavuot, Jewish Holidays – Intentions for Prayer

Compiled by Szymon K. based on information drawn, among others, from Wikipedia Link

Technical issues concerning the concept and sentence construction when working with intentions.

Art. „800 Intentions for Clearing” Link

„Building Extensive Intentions and Prayers. A Skype Conversation About the Technique” Link 

„A One-Sentence Framework for Intentions.” Link

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

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

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

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

Another example:

The Soul of a woman denies ever having been a bad mother. Therefore, adding the 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 –

„But of course not! Never in my life! Those are not my patterns. What I do is my private matter.” [This is what the Soul very often says or thinks about itself.]

• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, also known as the Feast of Harvest, the Feast of Reaping, Pentecost, the Jewish Green Festival, or the Feast of First Fruits, which is one of the three pilgrimage festivals of Judaism, observed on the sixth day of the month of Sivan—the fiftieth day after the festival of Passover, at the end of the „counting of the Omer,” and in the Diaspora also on the following day, which is regarded as the festival concluding the celebration of Passover and for this reason is referred to in the Talmud and the Mishnah as Atzeret (Hebrew: Festive Assembly), and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, which in the biblical accounts has an agricultural character, marking the beginning of the wheat harvest, when the beginning of the harvest in the Land of Israel is marked by the festival of Passover and begins with the barley harvest, ending with grain and drink offerings, during which two loaves of bread are offered together with a sin offering consisting of two young bulls, one ram, one goat, and seven year-old lambs, and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, one of those during which work is forbidden, and Shavuot is also one of the three festivals during which men perform a ritual dance around the altar, and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, known for the fact that during the Talmudic period it came to commemorate the giving of the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai, and for this reason the Ten Commandments, as well as the medieval poem Akdamut and the Book of Ruth, are solemnly read in synagogues on that day, and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, whose contemporary observance is preceded by the Three Days of Limitation (Shloshet Yemei HaHagbalah), constituting a period of preparation for the festival itself and a commemoration of God’s command that the Jews properly prepare themselves to receive the Law—the Decalogue, also referred to as God’s Commandments—and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, on the occasion of which synagogues and homes are decorated with greenery, flowers, and branches, while some Orthodox Jews spend the entire night studying the Torah, and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, based on tradition, many of whose customs function within Judaism alongside religious law, including among others:

• Akdamut – the recitation, before the morning service, of the medieval Aramaic poem bearing this title, in which the greatness of God is praised;
• Chalav („milk”) – eating foods made from milk. This custom refers to the situation immediately after receiving the Torah, when the Jews became bound by the laws of kashrut and therefore could not eat any meat dishes that had been prepared beforehand, but could eat freshly prepared dairy foods. Chalav also refers to the comparison of the Torah to „milk and honey” in the Song of Songs;
• Ruth – the reading during the morning service of the Book of Ruth, which describes events taking place during the harvest season. An additional reason for choosing this book is the Talmudic tradition according to which King David, a descendant of Ruth, was both born and died on this festival;
• Yerek – the custom of decorating synagogues and homes with green branches, referring to the tradition that just before the giving of the Torah, Mount Sinai became green and covered with flowers;
• Torah – studying the Torah throughout the festival night. According to tradition, during the public reading of the Torah on this festival, God once again gives the commandments and the Torah to the faithful,

and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof

• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, during which Jews celebrating in Jerusalem conclude their all-night Torah study by walking at dawn to the Western Wall, referring to the pilgrimage character of the festival, and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, during which traditional festive foods are prepared and served, including dishes made with cheese and milk (for example cheesecakes, pancakes, cheese-filled dumplings), as well as special loaves baked from the new grain, and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof
• Our own, and through other people’s, being the inspirers of, organizing, celebrating, opposing, promoting the Jewish holiday called Shavuot, during which the confirmation of girls is performed, and when Shavuot is traditionally a day for organizing weddings, which had been forbidden during the period between Passover and Shavuot („during the counting of the Omer”), and not only these, and our own and other people’s experiencing of all the consequences thereof

Opublikowano: 30/08/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: Religions, priests, sects, idolatry, vows.

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