Shia, 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 cantor@kehillatbethisrael.com or call/text 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 the B’NEI MITZVAH HANDBOOK at www.kehillatbethisrael.com/bm-handbook.
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Su, May 8, 2022
IN PERSON |
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. |
| Tu, May 24
5:40-6pm |
Prepare Blessing Before Torah reading | Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided) |
| Tu, May 31
4:30-5:00pm Talmud Torah 5:00-5:20pm Lesson |
Review Blessing before Torah Reading
Prepare Blessing after Torah reading |
Learn Blessing after Torah reading (PDF | MP3)
Print Weekday Tazriya aliyah 1 IN COLOUR (PDF) |
| Tu, Jun 7
(There’s no Talmud Torah from this point, through the summer) 5-5:20pm |
Review Blessings before and after Torah reading
Prepare Torah Trope like a song |
Learn Torah Trope, 1st half like a song (PDF | MP3) |
| Tu, Jun 14
5-5:20pm |
Review first half of Torah Trope
Prepare 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope, 2nd half (PDF | MP3)
Once you’ve made that smooth, go back and connect it to the first half — sing all the way through! Keep practicing everything we’ve learned so far, at least once a week! |
| Tu, Jun 21
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah trope (the whole page)
Prepare Tazriya, aliya 3, first verse. |
Learn Tazriya, aliya 3, 13:1 |
| Tu, Jun 28
5-5:20pm |
Review aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, first half of 13:2 |
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| Tu, July 19
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 3, 13:1
Prepare aliya 3, 13:2 up to o-vaheret |
Learn aliya 3, verse 13:2 up to o-vaheret |
| Tu, July 26
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 13:2 up to haKohein (first word on line 4) |
Learn the rest of Aliya 3, 13:2. |
| Tu, Aug 2
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 13:3 up to b’or habasar Review Torah blessings |
Learn Aliya 3, 13:3 up to b’or habasar.
THEN start over at the beginning and smooth out verses 1-3. |
| Tu, Aug 9
5-5:20pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare 13:3 up to umar-ei ha-negah |
Learn Aliya 3, verse 13:3 up to umar-ei ha-negah from 1:06 of the audio file, up to 1:20. |
| Tu, Aug 16
5-5:20pm IN PERSON |
Review aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3 – 13:3 up to |
Touch up 13:3, from b’or habasar up to umar-ei hanegah (ie., end bit of last week’s homework)
Learn 13:3 up to tzara-at hu |
| Tu, Aug 23
5-5:20pm ZOOM CJG PMID |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3 – whole next printed line |
Learn Aliya 3, rest of verse 3, and verse 4 to the end of the printed line (l’vanah hi) |
| Tu, Sep 6
5-5:20pm IN PERSON |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3 vs 4 from b’or b’saro up to lavan |
Learn Aliya 3 vs 4 from b’or b’saro up to lavan |
| Tu, Sep 13
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 3, verse 4 up to lavan
Prepare rest of v4 |
Touch up “ein mar-ehah” pronunciation
Use this audio file to touch up the tricky 2nd halves of verses 3 and 4, as well as to learn the rest of verse 4 (MP3) |
| Tu, Sep 20
5-5:20pm **ZOOM |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, verse 5 up to b’einav |
Learn Aliya 3, verse 5 up to b’einav (from 2:19 of the aliya 3 audio file, table below!) |
| Tu, Nov 1
5-5:20pm **ZOOM |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare rest of v5 (end of aliya 3) |
Touch up from “v’hinei” to “b’einav”
Learn the rest of verse 5 (really, the rest of the aliya!) |
| Tu, Nov 8
5-5:20pm IN PERSON |
Review Aliya 3 with blessings
Prepare Weekday Torah Processional – Vay’hi Binsoa Ha’aron |
Practice Torah reading from the TORAH (right-hand side). |
| Tu, Nov 15
No lesson – CJG AWAY |
Do the homework at right ==> | Learn Vay’hi Binso’a 3rd printed line (Ki Mitziyon…Mi-rushalayim) |
| Tu, Nov 22
5-5:20pm |
Review aliya 3 from the Torah side
Review Vay’hi Binsoa Prepare Gad’lu Prepare L’Cha Adonai (Shabbat melody) up to v’hahod. |
Learn Gad’lu (MP3)
Learn L’Cha Adonai up to v’ha-hod (MP3) |
| Tu, Nov. 29
5-5:20pm (ZOOM TODAY) |
Review Torah service to date
Prepare L’Cha Adonai from ki chol ba-shamayim up to l’chol l’rosh. |
1. Learn L’cha Adonai from ki chol ba-shamayim up to l’chol l’rosh.
2. Touch and smooth out Gad’lu from last week |
| Tu, Dec 6
5-5:20pm in-person |
Review Torah service to date
Prepare L’Cha Adonai: “Rom’mu, Rom’mu Adonai Eloheinu” |
1. Learn L’Cha Adonai new material “Rom’mu, Rom’mu Adonai Eloheinu”
2. Go back to the beginning of Gad’lu/L’Cha Adonai first paragraph and smooth it all out by listening to that section 15+ times, then singing along 15+ times. If those 5 lines are too much, just focus on, say, the first 3 lines. Quality is more important than Quantity! 3. Practice aliya 3 verse 5 from Left-hand side (Torah side) |
| Tu, Dec 13
5-5:20pm CANCELED – CLIFF STUCK IN TRAFFIC |
Review Torah Service to date
Prepare 3rd from last line of L’Cha Adonai Review Aliya 3 from Torah side |
Learn L’cha Adonai, 3rd line from bottom (V’hish-tachavu, V’hish-tachavu, la-hadom rag-lav kadosh Hu” – from 42 seconds up to 52 second, in the audio file.
Make sure that L’cha Adonai is smooth from the beginning up to the end of that line. |
| Th, Dec 22
5-5:20pm ZOOM |
Review Torah Service to date
Review Aliya 3 from Torah side Review L’Cha Adonai to date Prepare L’Cha Adonai, 2nd-to-last line (Rom’mu… l’har kod-sho) Prepare Aliya 1, v1 and v2 up to Zachar For the following week, learn the rest of v2 |
Prepare Aliya 1, v1 and v2 up to Zachar
If you have time amid your travels, you could work on the rest of v2. |
| SHIA VACATION | ||
| Tu, Jan 10
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare Aliya 1, 12:3 and 12:4 up to ushloshet yamim Review Aliya 3 Review Torah Processional |
Learn Aliya 1, 12:3 and 12:4 up to ushloshet yamim |
| Tu, Jan 17
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare Aliya 1, more of 12:4, up to lo tiga Review Aliya 3 Review Torah Processional Review Torah Blessings |
Learn Aliya 1, 12:4, up to lo tiga
Smooth out 12:3 |
| Tu, Jan 24
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare rest of 12:4 Review Aliya 3 Review Torah Processional Review Torah Blessings |
Learn rest of aliya 1, 12:4 (ie., to the end) |
| Tu, Jan 31
5-5:20pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 1 (entire)
Prepare Aliya 2, 12:5 |
Learn Aliya 2, 12:5, using the table below, as usual. |
| Tu, Feb 7
5-5:20pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 1
Review aliya 2 to date Prepare Aliya 2, 12:6 up to l’chatat |
(Finish) learn(ing) Aliya 2, 12:6 up to l’chatat
Keep smoothing out Aliya 2, 12:5 |
| Tu, Feb 14
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare the rest of Aliya 2, 12:6 Review Torah Processional Review Aliya 3 with Torah blessings |
Learn the rest of Aliya 2, 12:6
Smooth out the first 2/3 of 12:6 |
| Tu, Feb 21
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 12:7 up to dameha |
Learn Aliya 2, 12:7 up to dameha |
| Tu, Feb 28
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare rest of 12:7 (from zot Torat), and 12:8 up to dei seh in Aliya 2 |
Learn rest of 12:7 (from zot Torat), and 12:8 up to dei seh in Aliya 2 |
| Tu, Mar 7 | NO LESSON – PURIM, but please do homework for this week, at right. | Learn 12:8 up to v’echad l’chatat. |
| Tu, Mar 14 | NO LESSON – SPRING BREAK (CJG on vacation) | Use this week to review everything we’ve learned so far! |
| Tu, Mar 21
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare rest of aliya 2 Review aliya 1 |
Learn the rest of 12:8.
Smooth out all of 12:8 (and of course, be able to sing the entire aliya) Work on aliya 1 to get it back in good shape. You may need to listen to it through 5 or 6 times first, then sing along 3-4 times, then sing it on your own — this is a “mini” version of the weekly homework technique! |
| Tu, Mar 28
5-5:20pm |
Review aliya 2 (entire)
Review Aliya 1 to see if it’s smoothed out and well-remembered Check on Aliya 3 to see if it’s well-remembered. Review Torah Processional |
Fix the last word of aliya 2 – “V’-ta-HEI-rah”
No “regular” lessons during Passover. Next get-together will be for your full runthrough. Complete your D’var Torah (speech) that you’re working on with Rabbi Kenter. Bring it to your runthrough in its finished form, printed with large text that’s double-spaced. |
| Su, Apr 16
Services 8:30-9:15am 9:30-10:15am – Full Runthrough on the Chapel Bimah with the actual Torah scroll |
Full Runthrough! Bring your completed D’var Torah that you’ve been working on with Rabbi Kenter. | |
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Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF)
Weekday Torah Processional (PDF)
Torah Blessings (PDF)
Weekday Tazriya (Folder)
Weekday Torah Service (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Tazriya Aliya 3 – (PDF | MP3) – All in Lev. Ch 13 – SHIA – DONE
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:16 | 3 – 0:55 | 4 – 1:40 | 5 – 2:19 |
Torah Processional – DONE
Tazriya Aliya 1 – (PDF | MP3) – All in Lev. Ch 12 – SHIA – DONE
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:13 | 3 – 0:47 | 4 – 1:00 |
Tazriya Aliya 2 – (PDF | MP3) – All in Lev. Ch 12 – SHIA – IN PROGRESS
| 5 – 0:00 | 6 – 0:30 | 7 – 1:07 | 8 – 1:37 |
Torah Recessional –
Kiddush for Friday night (even though not for your Bar Mitzvah)
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) –
Other items as time allows: Shacharit,