A Little Bit With Kavanah

A Little Bit With Kavanah:

It is known that the custom in Chernobyl was to say the entire Sefer Tehillim very quickly, while the custom in Ruzhin was to recite Tehillim slowly and intently. The Ruzhiner Rebbe zy”a once met Rav Mord’chele of Chernobyl zy”a and asked him why he recited Tehillim so quickly, as it is known that “tov m’at b’kavanah m’harbei shelo b’kavanah.” (A little bit with kavanah is better than a lot without kavanah.)

Rav Mord’chele answered that the actual meaning of that statement is: “Tov m’at b’kavanah” - how can one come to say a little bit of Tehillim with kavanah? “M’harbei shelo b’kavanah” – from saying a lot without kavanah. If one recites a lot of...