Sam, 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 ONLINE
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, Oct 13
5-5:40pm In Person |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage BM Date 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, Nov 1
5:50-6:10pm |
Prepare Haftara Trope like a song – first half | Learn first half of Haftara Trope sheet (PDF | MP3) – up to first sof pasuk. As you go, look at, and point to the trope symbols so that it’s the symbols, not the hebrew letters of the trope names, that stick in your mind as you relate them to the notes in the recording. |
| Tu, Nov 8
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara trope up to mapach pashta
Prepare Haftara trope, from munach zakeif katon up to first sof pasuk |
This week, learn from munach zakeif katon up to first sof pasuk. |
| Tu, Nov 15 | NO LESSON – CANTOR GREEN AT CONVENTION | This week, learn Haftara Trope from Pazeir up to and including kadma v’az-la |
| Tu, Nov 22
POSSIBLY 6:20-6:40pm, TBC |
Review Haftara trope to date
Prepare Haftara trope from Geireish to the end. |
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| Tu, Nov 29
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Trope Sheet
Prepare Blessing Before Haftara |
Learn Blessing Before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Please make sure each week that you (a) pack your printed materials so that we can use them during lessons, and so you can (b) point to the correct spot at all times — make both of those a habit! |
| Tu, Dec 6
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Blessing Before Haftara
Prepare Haftara 40:27 up to “ut-dabeir Yisra-el” |
1. Make the Blessing before the Haftara super confident and smooth.
2. Use the Haftara table, PDF and MP3 below to learn Haftara 40:27 up to “ut-dabeir Yisra-el” (ie., up to 0:16 of the audio file) |
| Tu, Dec 13
5:50-6:10pm NO LESSON – SAM ILL |
Review Haftara to date, with Blessing before.
Prepare Haftara rest of 40:27 and start of 40:28 |
Learn Haftara rest of 40:27 (from nis-t’ra darki up to mish-pati ya-avor).
If you’re able to do more than that, learn 40:28 up to shamata. (Use the haftara audio file below, and keep using the homework technique outlined in the top cell of this column.) Feel better! |
| Th, Dec. 22
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date, with Blessing before.
Prepare Haftara 40:28 (or rest of it) |
Learn 40:27 from nis-t’ra to the end
Learn 40:28 up to shamata You have two weeks to do this. |
| Tu, Dec 27 | NO LESSON – VACA | |
| Tu, Jan 3
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 40:28 |
MUST touch up blessing before Haftara and make super confident. That was the homework assignment almost a month ago.
Smooth out and make confident Haftara up to 40:28, shamata. Knock my socks off with how well you know it! |
| Tu, Jan 10
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 40:28, and 4:29 up to laya-eif ko-ach, but if you can, finish up 4:29 to yar-beh. |
Looks like I didn’t assign homework — did you learn according to the cell at left? |
| Th, Jan 19
NO LESSON – CJG ILL. Please learn the material at right this week. |
Continue learning rest of 40:28, and 4:29 up to laya-eif ko-ach (last week’s homework), and finish up 4:29 to yar-beh. | |
| Tu, Jan. 24
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 40:30, and 40:31 up to kan’sharim |
Finish learning 40:29 (ul-ein onim)
Learn Haftara 40:30, and 40:31 up to kan’sharim Make sure you bring your BM materials each week! |
| Tu, Jan 31
5:50-6:10pm |
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NO LESSON – SAM WAS SICK |
| Tu, Feb 7
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara up to 40:31 (Kan’sharim)
Prepare 40:31 to the end, and 41:1 up to cho-ach |
Get smoother at the Blessing before Haftara. Figure out how to master your stumbling blocks (asher bachar, baruch atah…)
Learn Haftara 40:30, and 40:31 up to kan’sharim (same as the homework from Jan 24) |
| Tu, Feb 14
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 41:1 and 41:2 up to l’rag-lo |
Learn Haftara 41:1 and 41:2 up to l’rag-lo
Keep reviewing everything learned so far |
| Tu, Feb 21
4:50-5:05pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 41:2 and 41:3 |
Smooth out Haftara 41:1
Finish learning up to end of 41:2. |
| Tu, Feb 28
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara up to the end of 41:2
Prepare Haftara 41:3 |
Learn 41:3-4 |
| Tu, Mar 7 | NO LESSON – PURIM, BUT please do homework at right => | Learn 41:5-6 |
| Tu, Mar 14 | NO LESSON (Spring break, Jason on vacation) | Review everything this week. |
| Tu, Mar 21
5:50-6:10pm |
Review haftara so far
Prepare Haftara 41:7 |
1. Smooth out Haftara 41:3
2. Learn 41:7 3. Smooth out p2 of your haftara |
| Tu, Mar 28
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 41:8 |
Please make sure you have a “regular” place to keep your Bar Mitzvah folder so you don’t misplace it or lose your transliterated materials.
Smooth out Haftara. You have 3 weeks before our next lesson. Please learn Haftara 41:8 from the table below. |
| Tu, Apr 18
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara 41:8
Go back and review Haftara from the beginning Prepare Haftara 41:9 first half (up to k’raticha) |
Learn Haftara 41:9 first half (up to k’raticha)
Smooth out 41:7 and 41:8, making sure you’re singing exactly the same notes and accents as in the audio files. |
| Tu, Apr 25
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara 41:7-8 and first half of 41:9
Prepare rest of 41:9 and 41:10 up to af azarticha |
Learn rest of 41:9 (from va-Omar) and 41:10 up to af azarticha |
| We, May 3
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-41:10 and 41:11 |
Learn Haftara rest-of-41:10 and 41:11 |
| Tu, May 9
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare haftara 41:12 and 14:13 up to y’minecha |
Go back and finish learning 41:10-11 — super smooth!
Learn 41:12 up to matzutecha |
| Tu, May 16
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
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Smooth out v9-12. Make it super confident. Listen to the audio file for this section 15-20 times before singing along with it, and then singing without the audio file. |
| Tu, May 23
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest of 41:12 and 41:13 |
Learn Haftara 41:12-13
Smooth out 41:10-11 |
| Tu, May 30
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara
Prepare Haftara 41:14 and 41:15 |
Learn Haftara 41:14-15. You have two weeks to do this. Try to knock my socks off!!
Smooth out 41:12-13 |
| Tu, Jun 6 | NO LESSON – CJG Vaca | Keep learning 41:14-15 |
| Tu, Jun 13
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 41:16 |
Learn Haftara 41:16
Sing through your entire haftara WITH the audio file. Any deviation – circle the trouble spot! Do this for the entire haftara, and I want to see your circled words. Be honest with yourself — any hint of “I didn’t (or wasn’t about to) get that right” counts! |
| Tu, June 20
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Work on circled words |
Sing through your entire haftara WITH the audio file. Any deviation – circle the trouble spot! Do this for the entire haftara, and I want to see your circled words. Be honest with yourself — any hint of “I didn’t (or wasn’t about to) get that right” counts!
Work on all the circled words from PAGE 1 of your Haftara. Use the audio file and do repeat-work a bunch of times for each until you’re confidently singing the page correctly. |
| **Th, Jun 29
6:30-6:50pm |
Review Haftara, particularly looking for circled word correctness and confidence! | |
| Tu, Jul 4
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara for smoothness
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Work on EVERY pashta combination. Use a fresh copy of the haftara. Use the audio files intensively to fix and solidify. |
| Tu, July 11
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Entire Haftara for trope accuracy
Prepare Blessing #1 after haftara, first half |
Learn 1st half of Blessing #1 after Haftara – even while you’re on vacation! It should be familiar already from Talmud Torah Shul School |
| Th, July 27
5:40-6pm in person |
Review Blessing 1 after haftara, first half
Prepare Blessing 1 second half Review Haftara |
Print the new Haftara Blessings sheet with transliteration.
Learn 2nd half of blessing 1 after haftara. Make sure that the first half of it is smooth and that you can sing the whole of blessing 1 smoothly. Practice your haftara in front of your parents. |
| Tu, Aug 1,
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Blessing 1 after haftara
Prepare Blessing 2 after Haftara Review Haftara last page for smoothness and familiarity |
1. Learn blessing #2 after Haftara
2. Learn Blessing #3 after Haftara up to v’yageil libeinu 3. Go back and smooth out Blessing #1 after haftara Remember to go over your haftara every week so that it gets smoother and smoother! |
| Tu, Aug 8
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Blessings after Haftara to date
Prepare rest-of-Blessing #3 after haftara Review Haftara |
Learn rest of blessing 3 after haftara.
Notes: Smooth out blessing 1-3 after Haftara
Blessing 4 still to learn Work on Haftara as follows: Haftara – confident verses are 40:27-31, and 41:1-3, |
| Tu, Aug 15
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Blessings after haftara
Prepare first half of blessing 4 after haftara Review haftara from page 2. Work on list above |
Smooth out blessings 3 and 4 after haftara
Keep reviewing at least once each week everything you’ve learned so far! (Mainly haftara) NEED TO COME TO SHUL REGULARLY LIKE YOU DID BEFORE CAMP! There is a bar mitzvah this Saturday morning, so this is a particularly good one to attend! |
| Tu, Aug 22
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Blessings after haftara (all!)
Start reviewing Haftara, particularly, items that needed work from Aug 8 homework box. |
Finish smoothing out blessing 4 after haftara.
When practicing haftara this week, DO NOT STOP! Try to keep moving forward, and remember to look at the trope symbols to remind you of music you’re not totally confident about. Make all 4 blessings after haftara smooth! Rabbi Frydman-Kohl will work with you on a haftara. Jason will put you in touch. |
| Tu, Aug 29 | NO LESSON, JASON ON VACATION | |
| Tu, Sep 5
5:50-6:10 |
Review Haftara with blessings | SAM WAS ILL. NO LESSON |
| Tu, Sep 12
6:00-6:15pm |
Review Haftara
Reviewed blessings after haftara. #4 needs a lot more work. |
Haftara — in last 2 pages, make sure you’re paying extra attention to the difference between “mercha-tip’cha” words and “mapach-pashta” words. Review these 2 pages for smoothness.
DO A TON OF WORK ON BLESSING 4 after the Haftara. |
| Tu, Sep 19
5:30-5:50pm (because Sam was here early and Jason was available) |
Review last 2 pages of haftara (first two are in good shape)
Review Blessings after haftara |
Keep smoothing out Haftara. SLOW IT DOWN (AND THE BLESSINGS) |
| Tu, Sep 26
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara with all blessings | Keep reviewing all. This week, make every Mapach a 4th, and every mercha a 3rd. Concentrate on those!
Keep practicing your blessings after haftara Adam & Geraldine, please confirm Oct. 26 plans (below). |
| Tu, Oct 3
5:50-6:10pm |
Review Haftara with all blessings | |
| Tu, Oct 10
4:15-4:30pm |
Review Haftara | Smooth out Torah Blessings (Aliya) (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After). Be careful: v’NA-tan lanu… SLOW EVERYTHING DOWN!! GIVE YOU BRAIN A CHANCE TO THINK AND PREPARE EACH NEXT WORK.
Record yourself singing your entire haftarah, and send it to Jason Listen to your recording. Put a noticeable mark on your page every time you stopped/fumbled/hesitated. Work on each of those moments for at least 3-4 minutes each. Repeat until each is confident and smooth! |
| Tu, Oct 17 | NO LESSON – Jason at Antisemitism Conference | Keep working on smoothing out Torah blessings, and Haftara with all Blessings |
| Th, Oct 26
7:15am Tallit & T’filin with Cantor Green 7:30am morning minyan, first aliya (Bar’chu et Adonai…) 8:30am breakfast 9:00am runthrough on the bimah |
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Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | MP3)
Torah Blessings (PDF | MP3)
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Lech L’Cha (PDF | MP3) – all in Isaiah
| 40:27 – 0:00 | 28 – 0:28 | 29 – 0:58 | 30 – 1:12 | 31 – 1:26 | 41:1 – 1:54 | 2 – 2:18 |
| 3 – 2:49 | 4 – 3:02 | 5 – 3:25 | 6 – 3:42 | 7 – 3:56 | 8 – 4:25 | 9 – 4:43 |
| 10 – 5:09 | 11 – 5:35 | 12 – 5:59 | 13 – 6:22 | 14 – 6:45 | 15 – 7:09 | 16 – 7:35 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Torah Service (PDF)
Haftara Trope – DONE
Blessing before Haftara – DONE
Haftara – IN PROGRESS (Done but needs smoothing)
Blessings after Haftara – DONE
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
D’var Torah with Rabbi Frydman-Kohl (YES!) – IN PROGRESS
Set up Passport System & mic for a speech during kiddush?? CJG to talk with Rav Baruch about comfort level.