Itamar, 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 |
| We, Sep. 27, 2023
6:45-7:30pm Cantor’s office @ 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. |
| Th, Oct 5
4:40-5:00pm |
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, Oct 12
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
Learn Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope)
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| Th, Oct 19
4:40-5pm ZOOM (logistics for Itamar) |
Review Torah Trope Sheet
Prepare Aliya 3, 35:11-13 |
Print aliya 3 (below) in colour (so you can see the tropes clearly)
Learn Aliya 3, 35:11-13, but, you can do more/go further if you have the time and you’re memorizing it well. |
| Th, Oct 26
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 35:14-15 or -16 |
Finish learning Aliya 3, 35:14
Learn Aliya 3, 35:15-16 |
| Th, Nov 2
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 35:17-18 (and 19 and 20) |
Itamar did a great job looking ahead and studied through the end of aliya 3!
Finish learning from 35:17 to the end. If that’s too much to practically memorize, you can stop before verse 20. |
| Th, Nov 9
4:40-5pm ZOOM (no snow tires yet) |
Review aliya 3 (entire)
Prepare aliya 2, 35:4-6 |
Learn aliya 2, 35:4-6
Keep working on/reviewing aliya 3 (the ultimate goal is to move to the left side of the tikkun page) |
| Th, Nov 15
4:40-5pm |
Review aliya 3
Review Aliya 2 to date Prepare rest of Aliya 2 |
NO LESSON – CJG SICK |
| Th, Nov 22 | CJG VACATION | |
| Th, Nov 30
4:40-5pm |
Review aliya 3
Prepare Aliya 2, 35:4-5 |
Learn Aliya 2, 35:4-5
Remember to review everything we’ve learned so far to keep it fresh and error-free! |
| Th, Dec 7
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
ITAMAR learned the whole thing! Prepare Aliya 1 |
Learn Aliya 1 |
| Th, Dec 14 | NO LESSON – CJG CONCERT | Review everything!! |
| Th, Dec 21
4:40-5pm ZOOM – car troubles |
Review Aliya 1
Prepare Weekday Torah Processional – Ein Vay’hi Binsoa, first |
Touch up/finish learning melody (trope) of Aliya 1, verse 2
Learn (in Weekday Torah Service) Vay’hi Binsoa Ha’aron (“weekday, as Shabbat” – PDF | MP3) The PDF is in the Weekday Torah Service folder linked at the bottom of the downloads section. |
| Th, Dec 28 | NO LESSON – CJG VACATION | |
| Th, Jan 4
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 1
Review Vay’hi Binsoa Prepare Gad’lu and first 2 lines of L’Cha Adonai Review Torah Aliyot 1, 2, 3 |
Learn Gad’lu and first 2 lines of L’Cha Adonai this week
Smooth out Vay’hi Binsoa, making sure you’re replicating the audio file faithfully. |
| Th, Jan 11 | NO LESSON – CJG AT CONFERENCE, but please do homework anyway ===> | Learn L’Cha Adonai lines 3 and 4 (up to l’chol l’rosh)
Smooth out Vay’hi Binsoa, making sure you’re replicating the audio file faithfully. Don’t to keep reviewing your Torah readings so they stay fresh in your mind. |
| Th, Jan 18
4:40-5pm |
Review Vay’hi Binsoa
Review Gad’lu and L’cha Adonai to date Prepare last paragraph of L’cha Adonai |
Use the audio file to fix “v’-ya-FU-tzu o-y’-VE-cha v’-ya-NU-su”
Learn Gad’lu and first 2 lines of L’Cha Adonai this week. Remember, your audio files are in the folder “Weekday Torah Service”, linked below, in the downloads section. Just as a reminder, 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. If you don’t we might lose entire weeks of progress unnecessarily. |
| Th, Jan 25
4:40-5pm |
Review Vay’hi, Gad’lu and L’cha Adonai to date
Prepare L’Cha Adonai lines 3 and 4 (up to l’chol l’rosh) |
Learn Aliya 1, 35:3, then make sure the whole aliya is smooth and confident |
| Th, Feb 1
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah processional
Review Aliya 1 (entire) Prepare Chatzi Kaddish after weekday layning, first paragraph |
Learn Chatzi Kaddish after weekday layning, first paragraph (audio file is in the Torah service folder link below)
As you review your Torah readings from now on, use the STA”M side (Torah side without nikkun) so you will be ready to read them from the Torah. 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. |
| Th, Feb 8
4:40-5pm |
NO LESSON TODAY – Itamar didn’t come to KBI and the request for Zoom wasn’t received in time.
Please do homework at right anyway! ===> Review Chatzi Kaddish 1st paragraph Prepare Chatzi Kaddish up to b’rich Hu |
Learn Chatzi Kaddish up to b’rich Hu using the same audio file you used last week. |
| Th, Feb 15
4:40-5pm |
Review Chatzi Kaddish up to b’rich hu
Prepare Chatzi Kaddish up to da-amiran b’al’ma v’imru Amen |
1. Review your 3 Torah readings so that you don’t forget them! 3 weeks to go! #2 was a little rusty.
2. Try to Smooth out Chatzi Kaddish up to ul-al’mei almaya this week. If you can’t get it smooth, we’ll forego learning and doing this prayer on the day. No big deal. |
| Th, Feb 22
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Aliyot
Check on Chatzi Kaddish first half |
Practice your Torah readings from the photo of your portion (PDF)
Keep working on Chatzi kaddish, assigned last week. |
| Th, Feb 29
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah readings from photo
Check on Chatzi Kaddish Review Torah Processional |
Finish learning Chatzi Kaddish using the homework technique above, listening 20+ time before singing along and then singing without the audio file.
Do a few more runthroughs of your Torah readings from the Torah photo – keep it smooth |
| Mo, Mar 4
7:15am Tallit & T’filin |
Review everything on the bimah! | |
| _____________ | ____________________ |
Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope | Haftara Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Vayakheil Weekday Aliya 3 (All in Ex. Ch 35 – PDF | MP3)
| 11 – 0:00 | 12 – 0:20 | 13 – 0:33 | 14 – 0:46 | 15 – 1:03 |
| 16 – 1:28 | 17 – 1:52 | 18 – 2:11 | 19 – 2:25 | 20- 2:47 |
Vayakheil Weekday Aliya 2 (All in Ex. Ch 35 – PDF | MP3)
| 4 – 0:00 | 5 – 0:20 | 6 – 0:46 | 7 – 1:00 | 8 – 1:16 | 9 – 1:32 | 10 – 1:45 |
Vayakheil Weekday Aliya 1 (All in Ex. Ch 35 – PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:11 | 2 – 0:25 | 3 – 0:58 |
3 Aliyot Chapel Scroll Photo (PDF)
Weekday Torah Service (Folder of PDFs and MP3s)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Aliya 3 – DONE
Aliya 2 – DONE
Aliya 1 – IN PROGRESS
Torah Processional – DONE
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Dini)