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Girls from a Brooklyn girls yeshiva high school receiving Kavanah Kards shows the great things we are doing with schools.

Kavanah Kards, began about 3 years ago, and more than 70,000 Kavanah Kards are now in 8 countries around the world, and more than 250 different people visit the KavanahKards.com website every week!.

In addition to cards to improving focus when davening, there is the Service of Hashem card, inspiring people to dedicate everyday actions for their good health or well-being to be able to serve Hashem. Also there is the Kavana of Mitzvohs card, based on the sefer K'asher Tzivah Hashem by Rabbi Daniel Garfinkel--on the little-known and little done halacha in Shulchan Aruch (Oruch Chaim simen samech) of having the intention before doing any mitzvah to do it "as Hashem commanded".

Kavanah Kards  and Kavana of Mitzvohs cards are the base of the Mindful Mitzvahs Campaign--an initiative to encourage people to do at least one mindful mitzvah and make at least one mindful bracha a day for 40 days at their level of comfort. Another step is thanking Hashem 5-10 minutes a day for the things we don't want in our lives. This is from the sefer "Say Thank-you and See Miracles", by Rabbi Shalom Arush.

The value of Mindful Mitzvahs to create greater positive connection of children to Hashem and to establish proper Kavanah with mitzvahs and davening is enormous. Dozens of schools and teachers worldwide have gotten them to use for teaching about kavanah and for special school programs and projects. As many as a thousand at one time have been sent to a single school!

Wonderful articles and a kid’s fiction story based on a true story about Kavanah Kards have appeared in Mishpacha Junior and Binyan magazines.  Heartfelt notes and emails of thanks have come from all over the world with accounts of how much people's tefillahs and lives have improved, baruch Hashem! The project has a bracha from Rabbi Kenievsky for 'hatzlacha”. Rav Gamliel Rabinowtz blessed that they should be spread all over the world.

Today our cards and materials are available in English, Hebrew and Yiddish; French versions are now being done. They have also been requested in Russian and Spanish, and will be done as soon as we are able.

Mindful Mitzvahs is a one-of-a-kind project; everything is given free of. Although we do receive (and welcome) some donations, it doesn't begin to cover the expenses. Also, there is so much more that could be done to bring Klal Yisrael closer to Hashem with funding for more advertising, translating. and printing materials in different languages. There is no other overhead. I personally handle all details of the website, in-taking requests, packaging, mailing and product development with no money spent to fulfill any aspect of our project, aside from the direct costs of design, printing, mailing, and advertising.

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