Kavanah means "to direct the heart to the text or the content of the prayer." It is attentiveness to God, an act of appreciation of being able to stand in the presence of God. To pray is to pull ourselves together, to pour our perception, volition, memory, thought, hope, feeling, dreams, all that is moving in us, into one tone. Kavanah is inner participation.
Abraham J. Heschel, Man's Quest for God
To pay attention
To do a thing with an intention
Attentiveness
To direct the heart to the Father in heaven
Abraham J. Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
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