ORLY, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your Bat Mitzvah. To ensure simcha success, please use the tools and downloadable items provided here to learn and practice your training assignments between lessons. For questions, e-mail me at cantor@kehillatbethisrael.com or call/text me at 613-327-3984. It is your responsibility to check this page to ensure it’s working properly right after each lesson, and let Cantor Green know if there’s a problem right away.
VERY IMPORTANT – MUST READ: KBI B’nei Mitzvah Handbook ONLINE
Click here to confirm you’ve read and understood the entire handbook (required).
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, Feb 6, 2025
4:00-4:45pm Cantor’s Office |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage Goal Setting Lesson Time |
STUDY METHOD (always have your printouts/pages in front of you)
1. In your first homework session, Listen to the assigned audio files (or assigned part thereof) at least 15 times in a row. Don’t sing along yet! Let it sink in! Best practice is to listen a couple more times in a second sitting before trying to sing along. 2. Sing along with the audio files 15 times through until it is identical, smooth and confident. If there are glitches, use the slider to “rewind” and review a word or two at a time until identical. You’ll know you’re ready for step 3 when the audio recording feels too slow or is ‘holding you back’. 3. Sing the whole assignment without the audio file (as you will in your next lesson). Use this approach every week, and knock my socks off with how well you know it! AND, 4. every week, you MUST review at least once, everything learned to date, and FIX any glitches. |
| Tu, May 13, 2025
4:30-4:50pm |
Provide folder with Blessings inside and URL on the front
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Print and Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
You have 2 weeks to do this as CJG is away at a convention. |
| Tu, May 20 | NO LESSON – CANTOR GREEN AT CANTORIAL CONFERENCE | Keep studying the above |
| Tu, May 27 | Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope first half |
Learn Torah Trope first half, using the Torah Trope link below this table in the downloads section |
| Tu, Jun 3 | NO LESSON TODAY, SHAVUOT, but please do the homework at right ==> | Learn Torah Trope 2nd half (and connect it to the first half, so you should sing through the whole sheet |
| Tu, Jun 10
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Torah Trope
Review Torah Blessings Prepare Aliya 4, 28:11 (and if you want, 28:12 up to lapar ha-echad) |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:11 (and if you want, 28:12 up to lapar ha-echad) |
| Tu, Jun 17
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, 28:12 |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:12 |
| Tu, Jun 24
4:30-4:50pm (Last lesson before Summer) |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Remember to pack Bat Mitzvah folder to practice at least 4 times during camp. |
In the remaining part of the week before you head off to camp, please learn Aliya 4, 28:13. If you need to stop earlier than the end, you could stop at the (red) etnachta on “ha-echad” in the middle of that pasuk.
Bring your materials with you so you can review at camp and do a review session with Cantor Green sometime over the summer. |
| SUMMER BREAK | ORLY AT CAMP (and maybe family vaca afterwards) | |
| Tu, Sep 2
4:30-4:50pm (unless different teacher, TBD) |
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Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 1 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:09 | 3 – 0:34 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 2 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 3 – 0:00 | 4 – 0:23 | 5 – 0:38 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 3 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 6 – 0:00 | 7 – 0:17 | 8 – 0:34 | 9 – 0:56 | 10 – 1:17 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 4 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 11 – 0:00 | 12 – 0:26 | 13 – 0:52 | 14 – 1:13 | 15 – 1:45 |
Weekday Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
R”Ch Aliya 1 –
R”Ch Aliya 2 –
R”Ch Aliya 3 –
R”Ch Aliya 4 –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Polansky) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel
Melanie’s mother needs wheelchair access (actually)