Oren, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your Bar 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. 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
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| We, Jan 6
6:00-6:45pm ZOOM |
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 – minimum 15 times through, over the course of 1 to 2 study sessions at home. 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) |
| Tu, Jan 27
5:20pm SKYPE |
Prepare Blessing before Torah Reading | Print out blessings before and after Torah reading:
Learn Blessing before Torah reading (PDF | MP3) Learn Blessing after Torah reading (PDF | MP3) Use the technique above each week. Also, please print out — in colour (to make sure the trope come out properly) — Torah Trope (PDF) and Weekday Chayei Sarah Aliya 1 (PDF). |
| Tu, Feb 2
5:40-6pm |
Review Blessings before and after Torah reading
Review Torah Trope like a song |
Learn the Torah trope sheet like a song (PDF | MP3) using the home study technique described in the top cell of this column. Make sure you listen to each half of the Torah Trope sheet 15 times (ie., first half is from Kadma up to the first sof pasuk; second half is from pazeir to the final sof pasuk on the page). |
| Tu, Feb 9
5:40pm-6pm |
Review Trope sheet
Begin preparing Torah aliya 2 (Elah will be doing aliya 1) |
Learn Aliya 2, 23:8 (PDF | MP3) – Print your PDF in colour please – the colours of the tropes are important for chanting them correctly. |
| Tu, Feb 16
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Work on 23:8 again |
Learn Aliya 2, 23:8 (PDF | MP3) – Print your PDF in colour please – the colours of the tropes are important for chanting them correctly. |
| Tu, Feb 23
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 verse 8
Prepare aliya 2, 23:9 |
Learn aliya 2, 23:9 (MP3) |
| Tu, Mar 2
5:40-6pm |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare aliya 2, 23:10 |
Learn aliya 2, 23:9 (MP3). Reminder, make sure you do 3 sessions spaced over the week, of at least 15-20 minutes each session, and make sure you listen 15 times to this audio file before you even start singing along! |
| Tu, Mar 9
5:40-6pm |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare aliya 2, 23:10 |
Learn Aliya 2, vs 23:10, first half (MP3)
Fix up vs 9 words: (1) Et M’-a-RAT, (2) Yi-t’-NE-nah, and (3) B’-to-ch’-CHEM |
| Tu, Mar 16
5:40-6pm |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare rest of 23:10 |
Learn second half of 23:10 (MP3)
Keep reviewing everything learned so far |
| Tu, Mar 23
5:40-6pm |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare aliya 2, 23:11 |
Make all of verse 10 perfect — please LISTEN to it 15 times at least, then sing along until you’re singing the same notes as the MP3, smoothly and confidently, and THEN, sing it on your own until you can do so very smoothly.
Make sure you set aside at least 3 sittings spread out through the week, at least 15-20 minutes per sitting. If you do all that, verse 10 will be awesome, and we’ll be getting into the correct study groove. |
| Tu, Mar 30
5:40pm |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare 23:11 first half |
CANCELLED – Family forgot due to Passover Break |
| Tu, Apr 6
5:40-6pm |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare 23:11 first half |
Learn 23:11 first half (up to n’tatiha) (MP3)
Keep smoothing out 23:10, using audio files to make sure it’s perfectly aligned. |
| Tu, Apr 13
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare rest of aliya 2 |
Webpage glitched. No homework was saved… |
| Tu, Apr 20
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare rest of aliya 2 |
Smooth out first half of 23:11 (MP3)
Learn 2nd half of 23:11 (MP3) |
| Tu, Apr 27
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare 23:12 |
NO LESSON – OREN DIDN’T APPEAR IN SKYPE |
| Tu, May 4
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare 23:12 |
Learn Aliya 2 – 23:12 (MP3) |
| Tu, May 11
5:40-6pm |
Review entire Aliya 2
Prepare Va’ani T’filati (Mincha Torah PROcessional) |
Finish learning aliya 2, 23:12 (MP3)
Practice whole aliya with blessing Learn Va-ani T’filati (PDF p229, third-from-bottom paragraph | MP3) |
| Tu, May 18 | NO LESSON – SHAVUOT | |
| Tu, May 25
*6:40-7pm |
Review Aliya 2 (entire) with blessings
Review Va-ani T’filati
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Print Torah Service booklet (PDF)
Learn Va’ani T’filati (MP3) (make sure last 3 words are pronounced correctly! Spend extra time learning them, and double check that you have replicated the audio file exactly!) – Aneini Beh-Eh-met Yish-Eh-Cha |
| Tu, Jun 1
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2
Review Va’ani T’filati Prepare Vay’hi Binsoa (using Shabbat morning melody) |
Learn Vay’hi Binsoah, first two lines, up to mi-panecha (MP3)
AND Sort out the melody of the start of 23:9 – et m’arat hamach-peilah – make your voice go up HIGH for et and connect it to the m’arat. Use the audio file and work on just those few words. |
| Tu, Jun 8
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah service to date
Prepare rest of Vay’hi Binsoah |
NO LESSON – OREN NOT FEELING WELL. Here’s your homework for this week (please be ready to demonstrate both this week and last week at your next lesson!)
Learn Vay’hi Binsoah to the end — ie., Ki Mitziyon section (MP3 from the 26 second mark) |
| Tu, Jun 15
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah service to date
Prepare Gad’lu
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Finish learning and smoothing out all 4 printed lines of Vay’hi Binsoa. (MP3) |
| Tu, Jun 22
5:40-6pm |
Review Vay’hi Binsoa (entire)
Prepare Gad’lu Prepare first 3 printed lines of L’Cha Adonai (Shabbat morning melody) |
Learn Gad’lu p230 (MP3)
Learn 1st 3 printed lines of L’Cha Adonai (shabbat morning melody) (MP3) |
| Tu, Jun 29 Tu, July 6UNTIL AUG 1 |
NO LESSONS – CANTOR ON VACATION, and OREN AT CAMP | |
| Tu, Aug 3
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah Processional to date
Prepare L’Cha Adonai next 2 lines |
Learn L’Cha Adonai Lines 4 and 5 (with tune!) (MP3)
Touch up from beginning of L’Cha Adonai – make it smooth and connected to the new material. |
| Mo, Aug 23
5:40-6pm |
Review L’Cha Adonai First Half
Prepare L’Cha Adonai 2nd half (all 5 lines if time allows) |
Learn last 5 lines of L’Cha Adonai (ie., from Rom’mu) (MP3)
Print Aliya 3 in colour (PDF) |
| Tu, Aug 31
5:40-6pm |
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| Tu, Sept 14
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah service from Va’ani T’filati thru L’Cha Adonai | Smooth out all of L’Cha Adonai, making sure you pronounce every word exactly as Cantor Green does in the audio file. If you are mis-pronouncing a word, listen carefully to that word in the audio file and perhaps write out the word on your page in English letters to remind you of how to pronounce it. |
| Rest of Sept | NO LESSONS – SUKKOT | Review everything so it’s all super smooth and confident |
| Tu, Oct 5
5:40-6pm |
Review L’Cha Adonai
Review Aliya 2 |
We’re done learning new material!! Keep practice everything learned so far.
When you practice your Torah reading, use the lefthand side of the page only (unless you need to remind yourself of a word or trope) |
| Sat., Oct 9
11:45am |
Practice Torah reading from Torah after Shabbat morning services. Bring Tallit and all your papers. | |
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Torah Trope (PDF)
Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (PDF)
Blessing Before Torah reading (PDF) – DONE
Blessing After Torah reading (PDF) – DONE
ELAH – Weekday Chayei Sarah Aliya 1 (PDF)
OREN – Weekday Chayei Sarah Aliya 2 (PDF)
REK – Weekday Chayei Sarah Aliya 3 (PDF) – NOT ENOUGH TIME TO LEARN
Torah Service booklet (PDF)
(note: aliyot 1 and 2 are both medium length, aliya 3 is just a bit shorter than that)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope Primer – DONE
Aliya 2 – DONE
OREN – Mincha Torah Processional Songs – IN PROGRESS
ELAH – Mincha Torah Recessional Songs –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) – IN PROGRESS