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 |
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| _____________ | ____________________ |
Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | MP3)
Torah Blessings (PDF)
[Maftir HTML Here]
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
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Maftir aliya –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
Musaf (Heiche? Full Repetition?) –
Conclusion of Services (Ein Keiloheinu, Aleinu, Adon Olam) –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel