Audrey, 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 visits with Cantor Green. For questions, e-mail me at cantor@kehillatbethisrael.com or call/text me at 613-327-3984.
VERY IMPORTANT – MUST READ: KBI B’nei Mitzvah Handbook
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, Aug 15
5:00-5:45pm SKYPE |
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. Listen to the assigned audio files a whole bunch of times, over several days. Let it sink in! 2. Sing along with the audio files many times 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. 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. Homework for this week: Get a looseleaf binder (with sheet pockets) |
| We, Oct 28,
4:30pm SKYPE |
Prepare Blessing Before Torah reading | Learn Blessing Before Torah Reading (PDF | MP3)
Learn Blessing After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) Confirm you have a working Skype account, and find Cantor Green at jgreen361 or cantorgreen@gmail.com |
| We, Nov 4
5:30pm |
Review Blessing before and after Torah Reading
Prepare Haftara Trope |
Learn Haftara Trope like a song (PDF | MP3) |
| We, Nov 11
5:30pm |
Review Haftara Trope like a song | Finish Learning Haftara Trope like a song (PDF | MP3). |
| We, Nov 18
5:30pm SKYPE |
Review Haftara Trope
Prepare Blessing Before Haftara |
Learn Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3) |
| We, Nov 25
5:30pm SKYPE |
Review Blessing before Haftara
Prepare Haftara 1:1 and first half of 1:2 Prepare Haftara 2nd half of 1:2 and 1:3 |
Polish up the Blessing before Haftara to get the trope accurate.
Learn Haftara 1:1 and first half of 1:2 (MP3) |
| Dec 2 | NO LESSON – CANTOR UNAVAILABLE | Learn Haftara 1:2 (second half) and 1:3 (MP3) |
| We, Dec 9
5:30pm SKYPE |
Review Haftara to date with Blessing before
Prepare Haftara 1:3-4 |
Polish blessing before the haftara (PDF | MP3)
re-Learn Haftara 1:1 and first half of 1:2 (MP3) |
| We, Dec 16
5:30pm |
Review Haftara to date (with blessing beforehand) up to “Hamelech”
Prepare Haftara second half of 1:2, and 1:3 |
Learn Haftara 1:2 (MP3) |
| We, Dec 23 | NO LESSON, But learn Haftara 1:3 | Learn Haftara 1:3 (MP3) |
| We, Dec 30
**5pm** |
Review Haftara to date
Work on study technique, using B’racha before haftara and Haftara 1:1-2 |
Renew your study technique and….
(1) Fine tune blessing before Haftara (2) Smooth out Haftara 1:1-2 using the appropriate audio files above Don’t worry about 1:3 this week! |
| We, Jan 6
**5:00pm |
Review Haftara up to 1:2
Prepare Haftara 1:3-4 |
Lock in correct melody for middle Baruch atah Adonai
Learn Haftara 1:3-4 (MP3) |
| We, Jan 13
5:30pm |
Review Haftara to date with Blessing before
Prepare Haftara 1:5 and half of 1:6 |
Learn Haftara 1:5 and half of 1:6 (MP3) |
| We, Jan 20
5:30pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-1:6 and 1:7 |
Print your own set of printed materials (in colour)
Learn haftara rest-of-1:6 and 1:7 (MP3) |
| NEW SCHEDULE BEGINS
We, Jan 27 4:40-5:00pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 1:8 |
Smooth out ending of verse 7 from last week
Learn Haftara 1:8 (MP3) |
| We, Feb 3
4:40-5pm |
Review haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 1:9 |
Learn Haftara 1:9 (MP3) |
| We, Feb 10
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 1:10-11 |
Learn Haftara 1:10-11 (MP3)
Fix the trope (music) of vayaz’ru in v7 |
| We, Feb 17
5-5:20pm today |
Review Haftara to date | Smooth out 1:9 – tzon uvakar um-ri, and make sure ul-chol anshei yehudah is pronounced correctly
Smooth out 1:11 – learn as if new, particularly the double zakeif-katon tropes in eim Sh’lomo leimor / Ha-lo shama-at, and make sure you’re pronouncing the words malach and adoniyahu correctly. |
| We, Feb 24
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 1:12 |
Smooth out 1:11 (MP3) – learn as if new, particularly the double zakeif-katon tropes in eim Sh’lomo leimor / Ha-lo shama-at, and make sure you’re pronouncing the words malach and adoniyahu correctly.
Learn Haftara 1:12 (MP3) |
| We, Mar 3
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date (partic. 1:11-12)
Prepare Haftara 1:13 (up to leimor, first word of p3) |
Learn first half of 1:13 (up to leimor, first word on p3) (MP3)
Touch up 1:11-12 from last week. SLOW DOWN YOUR HAFTARA!! Give your brain a chance to keep up! |
| We, Mar 10
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 1:13 |
Work on v13 – v’amart eilav Halo-atah (to get the right trope notes)
Learn second half of v13 (MP3) |
| We, Mar 17
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara v 1:14 (last verse!) |
Go back and smooth out any “glitches” from v10
Learn 1:14 (MP3) |
| We, Mar 24
4:40-5pm |
Review Entire Haftara Half
Prepare Torah Trope |
Fix up v9 – almost like re-learning – listen 15 times before singing along.
V13, fix the notes of “Hallo Atah” Go through entire haftara and make yourself stop and fix any instances where you find yourself attaching a word musically onto a word with a red trope. That means you’ve got the wrong melody. |
| We, Mar 31
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara
Prepare Torah Trope |
Smooth out v13 and 14
Work some more on all the circled and annotated words/music from this week’s meeting |
| We, Apr 7
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara from v12
Prepare Torah Trope sheet |
Print & Learn Torah trope like a song (PDF | MP3)
Print Maftir Aliya (PDF) |
| We, Apr 14
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Trope | Do another week on Torah Trope, this time using TWO sessions with the audio file. When you are listening this week, don’t look as much at the words, but DO look at the symbols for each trope so your brain starts to associate the SHAPE of the trope with the sound. |
| We, Apr 21
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Trope
Prepare Maftir 25:16 |
Learn Maftir 25:16 (MP3 – this is the entire maftir. Start at 0’00 today) |
| We, Apr 28
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 25:17 |
Learn Maftir 25:17 (MP3 – this is the entire maftir. Start at 0’26 today) |
| We, May 5
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 25:18 |
Finish smoothing out l’umotam and vayei-AH-sef.
Learn maftir 25:18 (MP3 – this is the entire maftir. Start at 0’57 today) |
| We, May 12
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Figure out what Audrey learned from Chabad. |
Finish smoothing out l’umotam and vayei-AH-sef.
Smooth out entire maftir |
| We, May 19 | Review Maftir
Prepare Ein Kamocha first section |
Print out the Torah Service in Black & White (PDF)
Learn Ein Kamocha 1st 2 printed lines (MP3) |
| We, May 26 | NO LESSON – CANTOR AT CONVENTION | Learn Ein Kamocha, 3rd printed line – Adonai Melech (MP3) |
| We, Jun 2 | Review Ein Kamocha to date
Prepare Ein Kamocha, next 2 printed lines (Adonai Oz; Av Harachamim) |
Learn Ein Kamocha from Adonai Oz up to et tziyon (MP3)
Practice your Haftara. Find and Practice all the r’vi’i trope words! Use the audio files to remind you of what they sound like. Maybe even write on you page something (lines, arrows, dots — whatever works) that reminds you of the tune. |
| We, Jun 9
4:40-5pm |
Review Ein Kamocha to date (to et tziyon)
Prepare end of Paragraph (Tivneh chomot up to Adon Olamim) |
Learn Ein Kamocha last 2 printed lines (Tivneh chomot up to Adon Olamim) (MP3) |
| We, Jun 16
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Service to date
Prepare Vay’hi Binsoa (ie., touch up the words, as you already know the tune) |
Learn Vay’hi Binso-ah Ha-aron (being careful of the v’-ya words) (MP3) |
| We, Jun 23
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Service to date
Prepare Sh’ma/Echad/Gad’lu |
Learn Sh’ma/Echad/Gad’lu p141 (MP3). Always bow when you practice ‘Gadl’u ladonai iti’. |
| SUMMER BREAK | ||
| We, Aug 18
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah service to date
Review Torah reading Review Haftara |
Keep reviewing Haftara and make it’s smooth. |
| We, Aug 25
4:40-5pm |
Prepare first 2 lines of L’Cha Adonai. | Learn first 4 lines of L’cha Adonai, from the Torah service PDF (MP3) |
| We, Sept 1
4:40-5pm |
Review L’Cha Adonai 1st half
Prepare L’Cha Adonai 2nd half |
Learn 2nd half of L’cha Adonai (MP3) |
| Wednesdays, Sept 8, 15, 22nd, and 29th are all Yom Tovim | NO Lessons during HHs | KEEP REVIEWING EVERYTHING. We’re successfully into the home stretch and need to maintain everything.
Work on Aliya 1 (PDF | MP3). See if you can learn verses 8-13 over the next month. If you can learn the whole thing, huge bonus points! |
| We, Oct 6
4:40-5pm |
Review Rishon to date
Prepare Rishon verses 9-10 Review Maftir with Blessings |
Learn verses 9-10 (MP3) |
| We, Oct 13
4:40-5pm |
Review Rishon Aliya up to v10 | Fix “geir v’toshav” beginning of v4
v6: “ish mi-MEH-nu” (not “MEI-nu”); fix trope of “et kivro” and make sure you don’t say “kiv-ron“. v7 “va-yish-TA-chu” v8 – fix trope of “naf-sh’-CHEM” (it’s a r’vi’i trope); and fix trope of “lik-bor et meiti mil-fa-nai” (fix word pronunciation of bold word); also, put accent of “ufig-u LI” on the last syllable, not on the ‘gu’. v9 – b’-to-ch’-CHEM (not -ches) v10: “sha-ar i-RO” (not i-ron); and make “bai-ei sha-ar i-RO lei-MOR” an ending sof pasuk, not a middle one. This is the end of your aliya. |
| We, Oct 20
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Rishon aliya (up to v10) to confirm the updates per the homework
Review Maftir Review Haftara if time |
Rishon aliya: Use the list from last week’s homework as a checklist to fix those items “for once and for all”.
Practice Torah Processional – make it smooth! |
| We, Oct 27 | Review Rishon
Review Torah service Review Haftara Review Torah Blessings |
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| Th, Oct 27
7:15am minyan prep 7:30am minyan 8:30-10am Bimah runthrough |
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Haftara Trope (PDF | MP3)
Torah Trope (PDF)
Rishon Aliya (PDF)
Maftir Aliya (PDF | (MP3 – this is the entire maftir)
Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Torah Service (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Blessing Before Haftara – DONE
First Half of Haftara – DONE
Maftir aliya – DONE
TBC – Audrey may have learned aliya 1. Work on that – IN PROGRESS
Torah Processional – AUDREY – IN PROGRESS
Torah Recessional – GRIFFIN –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) – IN PROGRESS
Split the haftara down the middle. Opener does opening blessing, ender does ending blessings
Some Torah readings each – Sh’vi’i and Shishi
Anim Z’mirot – Erin can teach them.
Alan & Helen can layn other aliyot
Alan PD
Immediately send Erin & Michael audio files for
AZ, Torah and Haftara Blessings
Prefer shorter haftara so the kids can do more of the service.
Hope for whole torah reading, with family members