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
Click here to confirm you’ve read the entire handbook (required).
| 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. |
| Tu, Nov 7
4:10-4:30pm |
Write name, phone number, and webpage URL on BM folder (provided)
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
This Saturday is the Bat Mitzvah of Julia Greenberg. Come and check it out! This is an important requirement in the journey to your own Bar Mitzvah. |
| Tu, Nov 14
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM today (CJG ill) |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
Finish learning blessing AFTER torah reading
Learn Torah Trope 1st half, up to the first sof pasuk. As you get better and better at it over the course of the week, start looking at the trope SYMBOLS rather than the words/names of the tropes so that you start associating the symbols with the musical note patterns. (PDF | Torah Trope) |
| Tu, Nov 21
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Torah Trope 1st half – WASN’T POSSIBLE DUE TO LACK OF PRINTER ACCESS Prepare Torah Trope 1st half
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Learn Torah Trope 1st half, up to the first sof pasuk. As you get better and better at it over the course of the week, start looking at the trope SYMBOLS rather than the words/names of the tropes so that you start associating the symbols with the musical note patterns. (PDF | Torah Trope) |
| Tu, Nov 28
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Torah Trope 1st half Prepare Torah trope 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope 2nd half. Make the whole thing flow. |
| Tu, Dec 5
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Torah trope
Prepare Maftir first half |
Learn Maftir 17:24-25 |
| Tu, Dec 12
4:10-4:30pm NO LESSON TODAY – CJG BECAME UNAVAILABLE |
Review Maftir to date
prepare Maftir 17:26-27 PLEASE DO HOMEWORK AT RIGHT ===> |
Learn Maftir 17:26-27 |
| Tu, Dec 19
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Maftir to date
Re-prepare Maftir 17:27 Prepare Haftara Trope Sheet |
Learn Maftir 17:27
Learn Haftara Trope Sheet. You have several weeks to do this because there are no lessons now until Jan. 16 |
| Dec. 25-Jan 11 | NO LESSONS – CJG VACATION/CONFERENCE. PLEASE DO HOMEWORK AT RIGHT ===> | Keep learning Trope Sheet and Maftir 17:27. Make sure you’re looking at the Trope Symbols rather than the words (trope names) by the time we next meet for a lesson. |
| Tu, Jan 16
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Maftir (all) with Blessings
Review Haftara Trope Sheet Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Learn Maftir 17:27
Touch up the entire maftir so you can do the whole of it smoothly and confidently. Finish learning Haftara trope from Pazeir, doing some extra listening and repeating on T’lisha K’tana and T’lisha G’dola to get the notes right. |
| Tu, Jan. 23
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM (CJG PMID) |
William left his studies a little late and didn’t finish leaning. Re-doing the material from last lesson:
Review Maftir Review Haftara Trope
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1 – Learn Maftir 17:27
2 – Smooth out tune of last 4 words of 17:26 – Nimol Avraham v’Yishma-eil b’no, where the ending note of ham is the note you need for v’yishma. Make sure your notes are exactly the same as in the audio file for this verse. 3 – Print Blessing Before Haftara and Haftara (3 pages) in colour from the PDFs in the Downloads section below. |
| Tu, Jan 30
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM (CJG PMID) |
Review Maftir (entire)
Prepare Blessing before Haftara Prepare Haftara 40:27-28 |
Fix the trope at the beginning of maftir, 17:27
Keep smoothing out blessing before haftara, partic from middle Baruch Ata onward Learn Haftara 40:27 and |
| Tu, Feb 6
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM (CJG PMID) |
Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara 40:28 |
Touch up Blessing before Haftara, partic Baruch Ata in the middle of the blessing. Use audio file.
Learn Haftara 40:28 |
| Tu, Feb 13
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM (CJG PMID) |
Review Haftara to date, with blessing before Haftara (listening for repaired Baruch Ata in the middle)
Prepare Haftara 40:29-30 and 31 up to cho-ach |
Learn Haftara 40:29-30 and 31 up to yachalifu cho-ach |
| **Th, Feb 22
**4:00-4:20pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-40:31 and 41:1 Review Maftir |
Learn Haftara rest-of-40:31 and 41:1
Practice Maftir (Torah) reading. Make sure it’s smooth. Practice Torah Blessings before and after the reading. Use the audio files for both of the above to remind yourself of the way they go. Remember: Every week, you MUST review at least once, everything learned to date, and FIX any glitches. If you don’t, you’ll forget it! |
| Tu, Feb 27
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM (CJG PMID) |
Review Haftara to date
Review Maftir (Torah) reading with the blessings Prepare Haftara rest of 40:31 (from yei-l’chu) and 41:1, and 41:2 up to l’rag-lo |
Not all the homework was completed. Retake the assignment, as follows:
Learn Haftara rest of 40:31 (from yei-l’chu) and 41:1, and 41:2 up to l’rag-lo Remember to practice your maftir reading so that it stays smooth |
| Tu, Mar 5
4:10-4:30pm ZOOM (CJG PMID) |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-41:2, and 41:3-4 |
Fix melody/trope of yig’shu in 41:1 (it’s a pashta, so you have start with a low note)
Learn Haftara rest-of-41:2, and 41:3-4. You have two weeks to do that because no lesson next week (March Break) |
| Tu, Mar 12 | NO LESSON – MARCH BREAK, CANTOR AWAY | Continue doing homework assigned last week |
| Tu, Mar 19
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Haftara to date
prepare Haftara 41:4-5 |
Learn Haftara 41:4-5
(Keep practicing everything learned so far!) |
| Tu, Mar 26
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 41:6 and 41:7 up to tov hu |
1. Learn Haftara 41:6 and 41:7 up to tov hu
2. Smooth out verses 4 and 5 |
| Tu, Apr 2
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-41:7, 41:8, and 41:9 up to ha-aretz |
Smooth out first half of 41:7
Learn Haftara rest-of-41:7, 41:8, and 41:9 up to ha-aretz |
| Tu, Apr 9
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Haftara from 41:4
Prepare Haftara rest of 41:9 and 41:10 up to elohecha |
Learn Haftara rest of 41:9 and 41:10 up to elohecha |
| Tu, Apr 16
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Haftara from 41:4
Prepare Haftara rest-of-41:10 and 41:11 |
Smooth out homework from last week
Learn Haftara rest-of-41:10 and 41:11 |
| Tu, Apr 23
NO LESSON – PASSOVER |
No lesson, but please do this short homework: | Learn Haftara 41:12 |
| Tu, Apr 30
NO LESSON – PASSOVER |
Use this week to review everything diligently, fixing any areas that are less that “totally confident”! | |
| Tu, May 7
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 41:13 and 41:14 up to Yisrael |
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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 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)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – IN PROGRESS
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;
Might be interested in doing more Torah reading than perhaps Torah Services.