Louis, 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 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 |
| Su, Jun 11
9:30-10:15am In Cantor Green’s office |
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. |
| Th, June 15
5:20-5:40pm |
Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided)
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Th, Jun 22
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
Practice the Torah blessings emphasizing the gutteral sound “ch” (as in BaruCH)
Listen to the recording of the Torah Trope sheet 20+ times before you leave for camp. |
| NO LESSONS UNTIL AFTER CAMP | ||
| Th, Jul 27
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Torah blessings
Re-Prepare Torah Trope sheet |
Learn Torah Trope like a song (PDF | Torah Trope) |
| Th, Aug 3
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Torah Trope Prepare Maftir 20:25 |
Learn Maftir 20:25 up to uva-of |
| Th, Aug 10
5:20-5:40pm NO LESSON, LOUIS ON EXTENDED TRIP |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir rest-of-20:25, and 20:26 up to avdil et-chem. |
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| We, Aug 16
5:40-6pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir rest-of-20:25, and 20:26 |
Learn Maftir rest-of-20:25, and 20:26
Bar mitzvah in shul this Saturday! Please attend! And sign up for the youth trip to LaRonde Sept 10 – see the synagogue webpage for trip and bus registrations! |
| Th, Aug 24
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 20:27 |
Learn Maftir 20:27 (last verse!) |
| Th, Aug 31 | NO LESSON – EVERYONE ON VACA | Take a break! |
| Th, Sep 7
5:20-5:40pm |
NO LESSON – LOUIS NOT HOME FROM SCHOOL IN TIME THIS WEEK
Review Maftir Prepare Haftara Trope |
Learn Haftara Trope like a song. Lots of listening! since we didn’t have a lesson in person. Once you feel comfortable with the words and sounds, try to focus on the trope symbols instead of the words, because those are what you’ll see on the actual words of your Haftara reading. Note, they’re the same symbols (and same sheet) that you learned for your Torah reading, but the sounds are (kind of) in a different key.
Print a new copy and learn the Haftara trope: (PDF | Haftara Trope) |
| Th, Sep 14
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Maftir with Torah blessings
Review Haftara Trope Sheet Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Learn Blessing before Haftara using links below. |
| Th, Sep 21
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Blessing before Haftara
Prepare Haftara 22:1-2 |
Haftara 22:1-2 using audio file below. THIS WEEK
No lesson next week, but please do homework listed on next row. |
| Th, Sep 28 | NO LESSON – CJG unavailable, but please do homework at right ===> | NO LESSON, but Learn Haftara 22:3 |
| Th, Oct 5
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara 22:1-3
Prepare Haftara 22:4 up to al kein |
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Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope | Haftara Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
| 20:25 – 0:00 | 26 – 0:40 | 27 – 1:00 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara (PDF | MP3), all in Ezekiel, Ch. 22 (for when regular Acharei Haftara was chanted)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:15 | 3 – 0:35 | 4 – 1:06 | 5 – 1:46 |
| 6 – 2:07 | 7 – 2:25 | 8 – 2:52 | 9 – 3:06 | 10 – 3:32 |
| 11 – 3:46 | 12 – 4:19 | 13 – 4:54 | 14 – 5:18 | 15 – 5:47 |
| 16 – 6:08 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Torah Service (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Maftir aliya – IN PROGRESS
Haftara Trope –
Blessing before Haftara
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Kenter) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel