LILA, 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
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Tu, May 9, 2023
In Person @ KBI (Cantor’s Office) |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage Goal Setting Lesson Time Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided) |
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. |
| We, May 24
5:20-5:40pm |
Prepare Trope for Haftara | Learn Haftara Trope like a song from the Sheet (PDF | Haftara Trope)
Consider coming to Youth Tikkun Leil Shavuot tomorrow (Thursday) from 7:30-8:45pm with Rabbi K and Cantor G, with ice cream sundae bar! |
| We, May 31
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Trope for Haftara
Prepare Blessing before Haftara Prepare Haftara 9:7 to do next week (no lesson, but be prepared to do this as homework for next week) |
Learn Blessing before the Haftara (PDF | MP3) |
| We, Jun 7 | NO LESSON – CJG Away, but please do homework at right ===> | Learn Haftara 9:7 using the audio file below and the table to tell you the starting time of each verse, in this case 0:00 – the beginning!) |
| We, Jun 14
5:20-5:40pm |
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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 Acharei Mot (All in Lev. 18) (PDF | MP3)
| 28 – 0:00 | 29 – 0:23 | 30 – 0:46 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Acharei Mot (All in Amos 9) (PDF | MP3)
| 7 – 0:00 | 8 – 0:38 | 9 – 1:18 | 10 – 1:43 | 11 – 2:06 |
| 12 – 2:35 | 13 – 2:58 | 14 – 3:30 | 15 – 4:06 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Torah Service (PDF)
Haftara Trope –
Blessing before Haftara –
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Maftir aliya –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Conclusion of Services; Musaf;