William Klein’s Personalized Bar Mitzvah Page

WILLIAM, 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

Bar Mitzvah Date: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 2024, 9:00am
PARASHAT LECH L’CHA
8 Cheshvan, 5785

Tutoring Schedule – Starting Nov. 7, 2023: Tuesdays, 4:10-4:30pm in Cantor Green’s office @ KBI.

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
Tu, June 20, 2023

Cantor’s office

Collect Family Info

Confirm Date

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.

Date/Time TBC 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)
Date/Time TBC Review Torah Blessings

Prepare Torah Trope

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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 Lech L’Cha – All in Gen. Ch 17 (PDF | MP3)

24 – 0:00 25 – 0:13 26 – 0:31 27 – 0:45

Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)

Haftara Lech L’Cha (PDF | MP3) – From Isaiah Ch 40 & 41

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)

 

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading –

Torah Trope

Maftir aliya –

Haftarah Trope –

Blessing before Haftarah –

Haftara –

Blessings after Haftara –

Torah Processional –

Torah Recessional –

D’var Torah (with Rabbi ???) –

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

 

Notes

Might be interested in doing more Torah reading than perhaps Torah Services.