Josie, 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. 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, June 3
SKYPE |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Goal Setting Confirm BM Date BM Materials Folder/URL Intro to Webpage and homework technique Set Lesson Day/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. 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 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. 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. |
| Th, June 10 | Prepare Haftara Trope like a song | Learn first half of Haftara Trope like a song, up to first “sof pasuk” (PDF | MP3) |
| Th, June 17 | Review Haftara Trope first half
Prepare rest of Haftara trope sheet |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Learn Torah Trope like a song, first half, up to the “]” using the audio file in the downloads section, below. |
| Th, Jun 24
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara trope
Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Learn blessing before Haftara |
| Th, July 1 | NO LESSON – CANTOR VACATION | Keep learning blessing before Haftara. |
| Th, July 8
3:40-4pm |
Review Blessing before haftara
Prepare Haftara 2:1 |
Learn Haftara 2:1 (MP3) |
| Th, July 15
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara to date (with blessing before)
Prepare haftara 2:2-3 |
Learn Haftara 2:2-3. Use the “Haftara MP3” audio file in the downloads section, below. As you can see in the table, 2:2 starts at 0:38 seconds, and 2:3 starts at 1:08. Use the slider within the audio file to get to the right starting point. We’ll do it that way from now on. Note that v17 is missing the verse announcement, but the starting point will still be as indicated.
Bonus! Go to www.kehillatbethisrael.com/HHH and sign up to participate in the youth choir recordings for a fantastic virtual music video we’re doing for the High Holy Days! Just select the youth parts and start watching the youtube videos for each (it will be obvious what’s what on that page!). Make sure your parents are aware and agree to your participation! |
| Th, July 22
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:4. Maybe some of 5 |
NO LESSON – JOSIE AT CAMP |
| Th, July 29
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:4 |
Touch up v3, making sure to differentiate between la-a-chei-chem and v’-la-a-cho-tei-chem.
Learn Haftara 2:4 (from 1:21 in the audio file) |
| Th, Aug 5
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara to date including blessing
Prepare Haftara 2:5 |
Learn Haftara 2:5 (at 1:51 in the audio file)
Touch up 2:4 (particlularly, v’na-a-fu-feha) |
| Th, Aug 12
5:15-5:35 |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:6-7 |
Learn Haftara 2:6 (from 2:22 of the audio file) and 2:7 (from 2:35 of the audio file), at least up to word 4 on page 2 (umeimai). If you can, finish all of verse 7 (MP3)
Touch up 2:5 |
| Th, Aug 19
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:7-8 |
Finish learning Haftara 2:7 (2:35 in the audio file)
Learn Haftara 2:8 (3:11 in the audio file), at least up to “basirim“, but if you can, learn all the way to the end of 2:8. This Shabbat morning is the Bar Mitzvah of your “classmate”, Leo Carroll. Try to come to KBI for around 9:30 to see what a Bar Mitzvah is like at KBI, and support your peer. Your parents will need to register your family to be there, for contact tracing. |
| Th, Aug 26
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:8 and first half of 2:9 (up to v’am’ra) |
Learn Haftara 2:8 – from 3:11 of the audio file
Learn first part of 2:9, up to v’am’ra – from 3:32 of the audio file |
| Th, Sep 2
3:40-4pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 2:9 and 1st half of 2:10 |
Finish smoothing out 2:9 first half (esp. u-vik-SHA-tam)
Learn rest of 2:9 and half of 2:10 (From 3:53 of the audio file) |
| Th, Sep 9
5:20pm-5:40pm? |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 2:10 and 2:11 |
NO LESSON |
| Th, Oct 7
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 2:10 and 2:11 |
Learn rest of 2:10 (4:30 in audio file) and 2:11 (4:42 in audio file) |
| Th, Oct 14
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara from 2:8
Prepare Haftara 2:11-12 |
Learn Haftara 2:11-12 (4:42 and 5:08 respectively in the audio file below) |
| Th, Oct 21
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara
Prepare Haftara 2:13 and first half of 14 |
Learn Haftara 2:13 and first half of 2:14 up to m’ahavai. (5:27 and 5:43 respectively, in the audio file below) |
| Th, Oct 28
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara to 2:13
Prepare haftara 2:14 |
Learn Haftara 2:14 (5:43 of the audio file) |
| Th, Nov 4
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara to date | Sort out v5 – “v’sam-ti-ha” and “v’sha-ti-ha”
Go back to the beginning, sing through your haftara and find any moment that’s not quite confident or correct (ie., moments where you stumble), and use the audio files on those words to add markings to your page to help you get it the same as in the audio files. |
| Th, Nov 11
5:20-5:40pm |
Review the Haftara
Prepare Haftara 2:15 |
Learn Haftara 2:15 (from 6:20 in the audio file) |
| Su, Nov. 21
12:30-12:50pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:16 and 2:17 |
Learn Haftara 2:16 and 2:17 (at least up to l’fetach tikvah, but if you can do the whole verse, even better!) from 6:54 in the audio file. |
| Th, Nov 25
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest of 17 and v18 |
Learn Haftara rest-of-v17 and v18 using the audio file below. |
| Su, Dec. 5
10:30-10:50am |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 1:19-20 |
Learn Haftara 1:19-20 |
| Th, Dec 9
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara (from beginning this time)
Josie didn’t get to v20, so… Prepare Haftara 1:20 |
Learn Haftara 1:20 |
| Th, Dec 16
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara from page 3
Prepare Haftara 1:21-22 |
Learn Haftara 1:21-22 |
| Th, Dec 23
5:20-5:40pm |
Review WHOLE haftara
Prepare Blessing 1 after Haftara |
NO LESSON – JOSIE ON VACATION |
| Th, Jan 6
5:20-5:40pm |
Review WHOLE haftara
Prepare Haftara 1:22 Prepare Blessing 1 after Haftara |
Smooth out 1:21-22
Learn first half of blessing 1 after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4) |
| Th, Jan 13
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara from verse 1:15
Review Blessing 1 after haftara, first half Prepare 2nd half of blessing 1 after haftara If time, prepare blessing 2 after haftara |
Keep smoothing out 1:21-22
Learn 2nd half of Blessing 1 after haftara. Make sure to really LISTEN to that part of the audio file many times before you sing along — that will help the tricky melody of the descending scale really stick in your brain. |
| Th, Jan 20
5:20-5:40pm |
Review whole haftara
Review blessing 1 after haftara Prepare Blessing 2 after haftara |
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Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope | Haftara Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
| 20:25 – 0:00 | 26 – 0:40 | 27 – 1:00 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF)
Haftara (PDF | MP3), all in Amos Ch9
| 7 – 0:00 | 8 – 0:33 | 9 – 1:14 | 10 – 1:40 | 11 – 2:04 |
| 12 – 2:34 | 13 – 2:58 | 14 – 3:30 | 15 – 4:08 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Torah Service (folder)
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Maftir aliya –
Blessing before Haftara
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Polansky) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel
Josie is going to day camp. May have to move lessons a bit later over summer.