Talia, 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
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Fr, Jan 21
9am 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. In your first homework session, Listen to the assigned audio files, each phrase separately, at least 15 times each. 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. Bring a looseleaf binder (with sheet pockets) |
| Th, Feb 3
5-5:20pm |
Prepare Blessing Before Torah reading | Print out and Learn Blessing Before Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) |
| Th, Feb 10
5-5:20pm |
Review Blessing before Torah Reading
Prepare Blessing after Torah reading |
Learn the Blessing AFTER the Torah reading (PDF | MP3) |
| Th, Feb 17
5-5:20pm |
Review Blessings before and after Torah reading
Prepare Torah Trope like a song, first half |
Learn first half of Torah trope like a song (PDF | MP3). Focus on the shape and colour of the trope symbols, and point to them as you go. It’s an important practice to point to the words as you will be doing so when you read from the actual Torah scroll.
Keep practicing Torah blessings |
| Th, Feb 24
5-5:20pm |
Review first half of Torah Trope like a song
Prepare Torah trope from after zakeif gadol up to and including t’lisha k’tana |
Learn Torah trope from after zakeif gadol up to and including t’lisha k’tana
Be able to sing the whole sheet up to that point. Add the trope symbols to your hand-written version of the sheet. Try to put the symbol above or below the specific syllable that has the main accent. |
| Th, Mar 3
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah trope to date
Prepare Torah trope from t’lisha g’dola to the end of the sheet |
Finish learning Torah trope (ie., from t’lisha k’tana)
Go to Staples and print “Aliya HaRishonah – Tol’dot” (PDF) |
| Th, Mar 24
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Trope
Prepare Aliya HaRishonah 25:19 |
Learn Aliya HaRishonah 25:19 (PDF| MP3) |
| Th, Mar 31
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Aliya HaRishonah 25:19 Prepare Aliya HaRishonah 25:20 up to Ha-arami |
Learn Aliya HaRishonah 25:20 up to Ha-arami |
| Th, Apr 7
5-5:20pm. |
Review Aliya to date with blessing
Prepare rest of Aliya HaRishonah 25:20 and first part of 25:21 up to l’nochach ishto |
Learn rest of Aliya HaRishonah 25:20 and first part of 25:21 up to l’nochach ishto |
| Th, Apr 14
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare rest of 25:21 and 25:22 |
Learn rest of 25:21 and 25:22 (to the end). You have two weeks to do this – no lesson next week.
If you haven’t done so already, please print a colour-copy of your Aliya HaSh’niya (Aliya #2) (PDF) |
| Th, Apr 21 | NO LESSON – PASSOVER (CJG not available) | Keep studying last week’s homework, and review everything so far — keep if fresh. |
| Th, Apr 28
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 25:22 |
Finish learning Aliya 1, 25:21
Learn Aliya 2, 25:22 (last verse) Please print Aliyot #1, 2, and 3 below so that we can start getting used to what the shapes of each word looks like as we sing it (mostly memorized, of course). This is how we get you to the point of being able to read your text right from the Torah. You CAN do this! Please do the printing! |
| Th, May 19
12-12:20 pm Eastern (SKYPE From Germany) |
Review Aliya 1
Prepare Aliya 2, 25:23, first half |
Learn Aliya 2 – 25:23 first half, up to yipareidu
Keep practicing Aliya 1 – make it super smooth so it practically rolls off your tongue! |
| Th, May 26
12-12:20pm Eastern SKYPE |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2 rest-of-25:23 Review Aliya 1 |
TALIA DIDN’T APPEAR ON SKYPE (CJG tried using Talia’s SKYPE ID instead of Emanuel’s) |
| Th, Jun 2
12-12:20pm Eastern Emanuel’s SKYPE |
Review Aliya 1
Review Aliya 2 to date Prepare Aliya 2 rest-of-25:23 and 25:24 |
Learn aliya 2, rest-of-25:23 and 25:24
Here are the resources for Aliya 2: PDF | MP3. The start times for each of these aliyot is in the table below for “Aliya 2” |
| Th, Jun 9
12-12:20pm Eastern Emanuel’s Skype |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 25:25 |
NO LESSON – CANTOR GREEN NOT AVAILABLE |
| Th, Jun 16
12-12:20 Eastern Skype |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 25:25 |
Smooth out v’rav ya-avod tza-eer in v23
Smooth out v 24 Learn first 3 words of v 25 (up to ad-monee) |
| Th, Jun 23
12-12:20pm Eastern |
Review aliya 2 up to v25, admoni
Prepare more of v25, up to sei-ar |
Learn rest of 25:25
Keep smoothing out v 23-24, particularly, ya-avod tza-ir; and make sure your “yuds” are the y’- sound, not a glottal stop sounds (like mil-OM) |
| Th, June 30 | NO LESSON | Keep doing above homework. Make it perfect for our next meeting |
| Th, July 7
12-12:20pm Eastern |
Review aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 25:26 up to Eisav |
TALIA DIDN’T APPEAR ON SKYPE. |
| Th, July 14 | NO LESSON (CJG VACATION) | |
| Th, July 21
12:20-12:40pm Eastern |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 25:26 up to ba’akeiv Eisav Review Aliya 1 |
Learn 25:26 up to ba-akeiv Eisav
Keep practicing everything learned so far! |
| Th, July 28
12-12:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Finish preparing 25:26 (end of aliya 2) |
Go back to studying verse 26. Smooth out last week’s homework. Please make sure “achiv” is pronounced properly (not “ashiv”!)
Add the next three words: “vayikra sh’mo Ya’akov” as your new learning for this week. |
| Th, Aug 4
12:-12:20pm Eastern SKYPE (Emanuels’) |
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NOT ABLE TO COORDINATE OVERSEAS. |
| Th, Sep 1,
4:20-4:40pm SKYPE |
Review aliya 2
Prepare Havdallah — Eliyahu HaNavi first 3 printed lines (ie., “chorus”) |
Learn Eliyahu HaNavi chorus (ie., first 3 printed lines) |
| Th, Sep 8
4:20-4:40pm IN PERSON |
Review Eliyahu HaNavi first paragraph
Prepare rest of Eliyahu HaNavi Review Torah blessings |
Learn the rest of Eliyahu Hanavi (Bim-heira to the end) and then go back and repeat the chorus you learned last week.
Smooth out (re-study) blessing after Torah reading (PDF | MP3) Please pack up your Bat Mitzvah materials and place them in your school backpack so we can use them in lessons hence. |
| Th, Sep 15
4:20-4:40pm IN PERSON |
Review Eliya HaNavi (all)
Review Torah blessings (before and after) |
Smooth out (re-study) blessing after Torah reading (PDF | MP3)
Keep practicing Eliyahu HaNavi SLOWLY — the whole song (chorus – verse – chorus) |
| Th, Sep 22 | NO LESSON – CJG Unavailable b/c of RH prep | |
| Th, Sep 29
4:20-4:40pm IN PERSON |
Review Blessings before and after Torah reading
Review 2 aliyot Review Eliyahu HaNavi |
Smooth out aliya 1 – mark the Hebrew minimally so you can get smooth, particularly at vayetar and vayei-ater.
Smooth out aliya 2 – partic. transitions from one pasuk (sentence) to the next, and mostly in the second half. |
| Th, Oct 6
4:20-4:40pm |
Review 2 aliyot
Prepare Havdallah Friedman Niggun and Borei P’ri HaGafen |
Learn Havdallah – Debbie Friedman – Savri, Niggun and Blessing over wine (MP3) |
| Th, Oct 13
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Havdallah (Friedman) – Savri, Niggun and “Hagafen”
Prepare “B’samim” and “Eish” |
Finish learning/smoothing out the “Borei P’ri HaGafen” verse
Learn the “Borei Minei V’samim” and “Borei M’orei Ha-Eish” verses |
| Th, Oct 20
NO LESSON – CJG VACATION TIME |
Keep reviewing and perfecting Havdallah (including Eliyahu HaNavi) and your two aliyot. | |
| Th, Oct 27
**5:30-5:50pm |
Review Havdallah to date, including Eliyahu HaNavi.
Prepare First half of Hamavdil section |
Baruch… ha-olam… (Next week) – Bein Yis-ra-el la-a-mim, bein yom ha-sh’-vee-ee |
| Th, Nov 3
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Havdallah to date
Prepare last half of Hamavdil paragraph |
Learn final paragraph of Havdallah really well (listen, listen, listen!!! Then do a lot of singing along). |
| Th, Nov 10
4:25-4:45pm |
Review Havdallah
Review Torah (Right) side of Layning |
Totally smooth out the final paragraph of Havdallah (the long paragraph). You will want to make sure when “demonstrating” to Rabbi Kenter, that you really know Havdallah well. |
| Mo, Nov 14
7:30am Minyan 8:30am Breakfast 8:45-9:15am Ruthrough with Rabbi Kenter, including your speech. |
With Rabbi Kenter (CJG away) | Rabbi Kenter will suggest what to focus on this week. |
| _____________ | ____________________ |
Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF)
Torah Blessings (PDF)
Aliya 1 – Tol’dot (PDF | MP3) – all in Genesis, Chapter 25 – TALIA READING
| 19 – 0:00 | 20 – 0:17 | 21 – 0:50 | 22 – 1:19 |
Aliya 2 – Tol’dot (PDF | MP3) – All in Genesis, Chapter 25 – TALIA READING
| 23 – 0:00 | 24 – 0:34 | 25 – 0:49 | 26 – 1:10 |
Aliya 3 – Tol’dot (PDF| MP3) – NOMI READING
| 25:27 – 0:00 | 28 – 0:26 | 29 – 0:43 | 30 – 1:01 | 31 – 1:28 | 32 – 1:43 | 33 – 2:02 |
| 34 – 2:25 | 26:1 – 2:54 | 2 – 3:24 | 3 – 3:44 | 4 – 4:22 | 5 – 4:52 |
Havdallah (Folder)
Torah Service (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Aliya 1 – DONE
Aliya 2 – DONE
Sh’lishi Aliya – (not Talia) – Mom layning
Havdallah – Eliyahu Hanavi (DONE)
Havdallah – Friedman – IN PROGRESS
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) –
Aliya 1 – Talia
Aliya 2 – Nomi’s Mom
Aliya 3 – Nomi’s Dad
Hagbaha –
G’lila –