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
Click here to confirm you’ve read the entire handbook (required).
| 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) |
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| 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 |
AVIVA DIDN’T COME TO LESSON |
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| 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 |
Learn rest of Haftara 44:19 (from v’hinichu)
Smooth out 44:19 |
| We, Oct 11
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
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Smooth and finish learning all of 44:19 |
| We, Oct 18
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:20-21 |
1. Learn 44:20-21
2. Touch up 44:19 |
| We, Oct 25
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:22 |
1. Learn 44:20-21
2. Touch up 44:19 |
| We, Nov 1
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:22 |
Smooth out 44:19-21
Learn Haftara 44:22 up to im b’tulot |
| We, Nov 8
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest of 44:22 and 44:23 |
Finish learning 44:22
Keep smoothing out the haftara Come to Julia Greenberg’s Bat Mitzvah this Saturday! |
| We, Nov 15
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:23 |
NO LESSON – CJG OUT SICK |
| We, Nov 22 | NO LESSON – CJG VACATION | |
| Th, Nov 30
6:30-6:50pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:23 |
Learn Haftara 44:23
Go back and make sure the whole haftara to that point is smooth. You might want to consider writing in, in English letters, some key word transliterations to make sure you’re singing the right words. |
| We, Dec 6
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:24 |
Learn 44:24. Write transliterations where necessary
THEN go back and smooth out 44:20-23. Make sure you leave enough time during the week to spread out 3-4 homework sessions during the course of the week, so you’re neither cramming, nor forgetting what you learned at the beginning of the week. |
| We, Dec 13
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Work on Haftara 44:23-24 |
Smooth out Haftara 44:23-24 |
| We, Dec 20
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:25-27 |
Over the next several weeks, learn Haftara 44:25-27 |
| Dec 25-Jan 11 | NO LESSONS – VACATION/CJG CONFERENCE | Keep smoothing everything out! |
| We, Jan 17
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:28-29 – Good job for learning vs 28 on your own last week! |
Smooth out v25-28
Learn 44:29 (it’s short!) |
| We, Jan 24
4:40-5pm |
AVIVA DIDN’T APPEAR FOR HER LESSON – DOG SURGERY.
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Learn Haftara 44:30 up to yih-yeh |
| We, Jan 31
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:30 up to yih-yeh |
1- Learn Haftara 44:30 up to yih-yeh
2 – Go back and smooth out 44:25-29. As part of that, please write in by hand the word transliterations for any words or phrases where you stumble or hesitate. Sign up for World Wide Wrap morning of T’filin education and wrapping, Sunday morning, Feb. 11, 8:30-10:30am, with a buffet breakfast – www.kehillatbethisrael.com/wwwrap24. |
| We, Feb 7
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 44:30. |
Fix tune of v’almana ugrusha at the beginning of 44:22. It starts on the same low note as you just sang on hap’nimit at the end of verse 21.
Learn Haftara 44:31 (last verse!) THEN go back to 44:25 and do a TON of listening and singing along, from there to the end, to start to smooth out that section |
| We, Feb 14
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara from 44:20
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Work on smoothing out the last page of your haftara. Make sure you spend 5 minutes on each moment where you stumble, using the audio files intensively to ensure you’re learning it correctly, and getting confident with the material.
Here’s the ending verse of your haftara: Haftara Emor v31 major ending.mp3 |
| We, Feb 21
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara from p2, circling trouble areas for home practice. | Work on verse 27
Smooth out page 3 Practice Blessings after haftara with the audio files. |
| We, Feb 28
4:40-5:10pm |
Review Haftara from verse 26
Work on Blessings after Haftara |
Learn Blessing 1 after Haftara
Keep smoothing out the haftara. Don’t miss a week of reviewing it. |
| We, Mar 6
4:40-5:10pm |
Review Haftara from verse 26
Review Blessing 1 after Haftara Prepare Blessing 2 and 3 after Haftara |
Smooth out notes of v27 up to ha-p’nimit. Use the audio file. Listen 15 times to just those words, then sing along until you’re perfect at it, then sing the verse without the audio file. This is the basic homework technique, but do it all in one sitting.
Smooth out Blessing 1 after Haftara Finish learning Blessing 2 after haftara You have TWO weeks to do these (so do a great job!) – no lesson next week. |
| We, Mar 13 | NO LESSON – CJG VACATION | Continue learning from last week (above) |
| We, Mar 20
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Haftara (entire)
Review Blessings 1 and 2 after Haftara Prepare Blessing 3 after Haftara |
Smooth out Haftara 44:19, particularly v’lo y’kad’shu et ha-am b’vig-deihem for the correct notes.
Work on Blessing 3 after the Haftara this week |
| We, Mar 27
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Haftara from 44:17
Review Blessings 1-3 after haftara Prepare Blessing 4 after haftara, first half |
Learn Blessing 4 after haftara, first half, up to ul-tif-aret.
Try to learn the second half as well, as we still have Maftir to learn, and that will take a few weeks yet! |
| We, Apr 3
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara last page
Review Blessings 1-4 after haftara Prepare Maftir 24:21-22 |
Smooth out Blessings 1 and 2 after haftara (use the audio files) — you want to be so smooth that words just roll off your tongue
Learn Maftir 24:21 and 24:22 up to yih-yeh lachem |
| We, Apr 10
4:40-5:00pm |
Review haftara
Review Blessings after Haftara Work on Blessings 3 and 4 after haftara Review Maftir to date Prepare maftir rest-of-22 and 24:23 up to Yisrael |
Smooth out Maftir, 24:21-22 to date
Learn rest-of-24:22 and 24:23 up to yisrael Smooth out Blessings 3 and 4 after Haftara – use the audio files again to really drill into your head! |
| We, Apr 17
4:40-5pm |
Review Blessings after haftara 1-4
Review Maftir to date Prepare Maftir rest-of-24:23 |
In blessings after Haftara, smooth out circled words (tunes, mostly)
Maftir: Smooth out up to yisrael Learn Maftir rest-of-24:23 You have two weeks to do this! |
| We, Apr 24 | NO LESSON | Keep working on the homework above |
| We, May 1
4:40-5pm |
Review Blessings after Haftara
Review Maftir with blessings Check on Torah service |
Practice your maftir aliya and make so smooth from the RIGHTHAND side that you can actually finish your week reading it from the LEFTHAND side.
Focus on Ani Adonai Eloheichem and uv-nei Yisrael asu. Review Vay’hi Binso-a Ha’aron (Torah service folder, below) |
| We, May 8
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir from STA”M side
Review Vay’hi Binsoa Continue prepping Torah service |
Practice maftir a few more times to get the notes in the right places, particularly the circled words
Work on Uv-nucho Yomar Eitz Chayim Hi Practice Haftara with all its blessings so it’s really smooth! Review everything learned so far, and try to fix any trouble spots |
| We, May 15
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara section
Review Torah recessional |
In maftir, fix tune of ani Adonai eloheichem so that it’s a regular sof pasuk phrase, not an aliya-ending tune.
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| Th, May 16
7:15am – Tallit & T’filin |
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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)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Haftara Trope – DONE
Blessing before Haftara – DONE
Haftara – DONE
Blessings after Haftara – DONE
Maftir aliya – IN PROGRESS
Torah Processional – (Ready: Ein Kamocha. CJG Co-lead Vay’hi Binsoa and Bei Ana with Aviva; Ready: Sh’ma/Echad. Gad’lu needs work. Ready: L’Cha Adonai)
Torah Recessional – CJG does Ashrei; Ready – Y’hal’lu/Hodo, Mizmor-Havu Ladonai; CJG leads Eitz Chayim
D’var Torah (with Rav Baruch) – DONE
Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Lewittes) – Raise money for Women’s shelter?
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel