Aviva Lesser’s Personalized Bat Mitzvah Page

Aviva, 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 lessons. 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 me know if there’s a problem right away.

VERY IMPORTANT – MUST READ: KBI B’nei Mitzvah Handbook ONLINE

Bat Mitzvah Date: SATURDAY, MAY 18th, 2024, 9:00am
PARASHAT “EMOR”
10 Iyyar, 5784

Tutoring Schedule – Starting May 24: Wednesdays, 4:20-4:40pm in Cantor Green’s office @ KBI.

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
Th, Feb 9, 2023

In Person @ KBI

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.

Pre-Lessons

At-home with parents

Learn to Read Hebrew Course (PDF)

Conclusion of Services: Ein Keiloheinu, Aleinu, Adon Olam, Kiddush for Saturday morning (PDF | MP3s)

Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)

We, May 24

4:20-4:40pm

Provide B’nei Mitzvah Folder, discuss link, bookmark it!

Prepare Blessings before and after Torah Reading

Prepare Haftara Trope

Practice Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)

Learn 1st half of Haftara Trope (up to the first sof pasuk). Use the homework technique in top box of this column. (PDF | Haftara Trope)

We, May 31

4:20-4:40pm

Review Torah Blessings

Review Haftara trope 1st half

Prepare Haftara trope 2nd half

Learn Haftara Trope Sheet 1st half (PDF | Haftara Trope)

Create a written schedule for your Bat Mitzvah studies

We, June 7

NO LESSON – CJG ON VACATION

Please do homework at right… Learn Haftara trope 2nd half (PDF | Haftara Trope)

Reminder: Keep reviewing everything learned so far and fix any trouble spots.

We, June 14

4:20-4:40pm

Review Torah Blessings

Review Haftara Trope

Prepare Blessing before Haftara

Learn Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
We, Jun 21

4:20-4:40pm

Review Blessing before Haftara

Prepare Haftara 44:15 up to asher sha’mru

Finish learning second half of Blessing before Haftara (from middle Baruch Ata), then smooth out the whole blessing.

Learn Haftara 44:15 up to asher sham’ru using the audio file below.

We, Jun 28

4:20-4:40pm

Review Blessing before Haftara

Review Haftara 44:15 up to asher sham’ru

Prepare rest of 44:15 (just a small amount as you’re off to camp soon!)

Finish getting confident with the right notes for the second “Baruch Ata” in the blessing before the Haftara.
Tu, Aug 1

5:05-5:25

Review All so far Fix the middle “Baruch Ata” in the blessing before the haftara so the notes are correct. Use the audio file and practice that part 10-15 times.

Plan (positive thinking!) to learn the rest of 44:15, even while on vacation (and when you get back). That will keep things moving along nicely.

AVIVA AWAY 2 WEEKS
We, Aug 16

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date with blessing before

Prepare Haftara 44:15

Learn Haftara 44:15.  Make sure you pronounce YIS-ra-eil (not yiz)
We, Aug 23

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 44:16 and 44:17 up to hap’nimit.

Learn Haftara 44:16 and 44:17 up to hap’nimit.

DON’T FORGET YOU NEED TO BE COMING TO SHUL ON SATURDAY MORNINGS!!

We, Aug 30 NO LESSON – CANTOR ON VACATION

But please do homework at right ===>

Learn Haftara 44:17 from bigdei fishtim to the end of the verse
We, Sep 6

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 44:18 up to umich-n’sei fishtim

Smooth out 44:16-17

Learn 44:18 up to umich-n’sei fishtim

Th, Sep 14

4:40-5:00pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare rest of 44:18 and 19 up to el ha-am

AVIVA DIDN’T COME TO LESSON

We, Sep 20

4:40-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 44:18 and 44:19 up to el ha-am

Learn Haftara 44:18 and 44:19 up to el ha-am. Make sure you do a lot of listening before singing along. Don’t rush past that step!

Also, make sure you get in the habit of confirming on this page what your homework actually is. No need to guess or try to remember!!

We, Sep 27

NEW TIME:

5:40-6pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 44:19 up to m’shar’tim bam

Learn Haftara 44:19 up to m’shar’tim bam
We, Oct 4

5:40-6pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare rest of Haftara 44:19

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Downloads (click to open, right-click to save to your computer)

Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope | Haftara Trope)

Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)

Maftir Aliya – Emor – All in Lev. 24 (PDF | MP3)

24:21 – 0:00 24:22 – 0:13 24:23 – 0:32

Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)

Haftara Emor, all in Ezekiel Ch 44 (PDF | MP3)

15 – 0:00 16 – 0:53 17 – 1:18 18 – 1:59 19 – 2:25 20 – 3:21 21 – 3:42 22 – 3:58
23 – 4:34 24 – 4:53 25 – 5:25 26 – 6:05 27 – 6:18 28 – 6:47 29 – 7:13 30 – 7:33
31 – 8:15

Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)

Torah Service (PDF)

 

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE

Haftara Trope – DONE

Blessing before Haftara – IN PROGRESS

Haftara – IN PROGRESS

Blessings after Haftara – 

Torah Trope –

Maftir aliya –

Torah Processional –

Torah Recessional –

D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) –

Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel

 

Notes