Ava Haubert’s Personalized Bat Mitzvah Page

Ava, 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
Click here to confirm you’ve read the entire handbook (required).

Bat Mitzvah Date: SATURDAY, JUNE 15th, 2024, 9:00am
PREPARED PARASHAT B’CHUKOTAI (June 1)
M’var’chim HaChodesh Sivan
24 Iyyar, 5784

Tutoring Schedule – Starting Oct 25, 2023: Wednesdays, 4:20-4:40pm in Cantor Green’s office @ KBI.

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
We, Oct 11, 2023

In person

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 (or assigned part thereof) at least 15 times in a row. 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, Oct. 25

4:20-4:40pm

Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided)

Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading

Print and Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
We, Nov 1

4:20-4:40pm

Review Torah Blessings Smooth out Blessings before and after Torah reading
We, Nov 8

4:20-4:40pm

Review Maftir 7:87

Prepare Maftir 7:88 up to Shishim

Instead of touching up the Torah reading from last week, we’re going to shift gears back to learning the Torah Trope Sheet. It was my mistake for trying to skip that step for time, but it seems it would be more helpful to learn it!

SO: Learn Torah Trope sheet, first half (up to first sof pasuk). Learn it like a song, but as you get better at singing it, start to look at the trope symbols, rather than the words. We want to associate the musical sounds with the shape of the tropes (not the names)

(PDF | Torah Trope)

We, Nov. 15

4:20-4:40pm

Review Torah Trope 1st half

Prepare Torah Trope 2nd half

NO LESSON – CJG ILL

 

We, Nov 22 NO LESSON – CJG VACATION
We, Nov 29

4:20-4:40

Review Torah Trope

Prepare Maftir 7:87 up to b’nei shana

Review Torah blessings

Learn Maftir 7:78 up to b’nei Shana
We, Dec 6

4:20-4:40pm

ZOOM (CJG ILL)

Review Torah Trope

Prepare Maftir B’chukotai 27:32 and 27:33 up to y’mirenu

Learn Maftir B’chukotai 27:32 and 27:33 up to y’mirenu
We, Dec 13

4:20-4:40pm

Review Maftir to date

Prepare Maftir rest-of-27:33 and 27:34

Smooth out the entire Maftir by following the homework technique in the top box of this column — 1. LISTEN many times to the whole aliya; 2. SING ALONG many times with the audio file; 3. Sing the whole thing without the audio file.

The goal is to be able to sing it so the words roll of your tongue – you should be so familiar with the words and tune that you don’t have to think much about what is coming up next.

We, Dec 20

4:20-4:40pm

Review Maftir (all)

Prepare Haftara Trope

Touch up the melody of v34 in your maftir. Use the audio file.

Learn Haftara Trope sheet. Try without writing in the transliteration – you can always refer to your Torah trope sheet for pronunciations.

You have two weeks to do today’s assigned homework.

Dec. 27 NO LESSON – CJG VACATION Keep learning Haftara Trope sheet and smoothing out Maftir
We, Jan 3

4:20-4:40pm

Review Maftir (partic. last verse)

Review Haftara Trope Sheet

Prepare Blessing before the Haftara

First, Learn Blessing before Haftara

THEN, Go back to the maftir and make it identical to the recording (particularly the notes). Circle any words that aren’t coming out quite right or confidently, spend 2-4 minutes on each of those, listening and repeating a bunch of times  until they’re correct. Make sure you can sing the whole maftir aliya smoothly and confidently.

You have two weeks to do these two assignments

We, Dec 10 NO LESSON – CJG at CONFERENCE
We, Jan 17

4:20-4:40pm

Review Blessing before Haftara

Prepare Haftara 16:19 up to v’yom’ru

Finish learning blessing before Haftara. Make sure you can sing it smoothly and confidently.
We, Jan 24

4:20-4:40pm

Review Blessing before Haftara

Prepare Haftara rest-of-16:19 and 16:20

1 – Learn Haftara rest-of-16:19 and 16:20. Concentrate hard on make “Elohim” not start with a ‘h’ sound. It needs a clean “Eh” starting sound, called a ‘glottal stop’

2 – Smooth out (repeat more) the blessing before the Haftara

We, Jan 31

4:20-4:40pm

Review Blessing before Haftara

Review Haftara to date

Review maftir from righthand side

Changing gears! We’re going to put the haftara ON HOLD, and focus on Torah (maftir, and possibly another short reading), and the Torah service prayers.

Really make your maftir smooth! Only when it’s smooth and confident will we be able to move to reading it from the TORAH side (righthand side). That’s the goal for this week.

Particularly, fix the melody (trope) of v’haya hu ut-murato and et Moshe el b’nei Yisrael. Listen to the audio file at those moments a bunch of times to get it clear in your mind.

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.

We, Feb 7

4:20-4:40pm

Review maftir from the LEFTHAND side

Review Haftara to date (17:1)

Prepare Haftara 17:2-3

BACK TO HAFTARA! WELL-CAUGHT-UP!!! Keep that up! Great studying this week!

Learn Haftara 17:2-3. If you finish that and want to do more, you can go on in the audio file into verse 4.

We, Feb 14

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Ava already learn 17:4

Prepare Haftara 17:5-6

Touch up 17:4

Learn Haftara 17:5-6

(if you have lots of extra time, you can add 17:7, but no pressure!)

We, Feb 21

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 17:7-8

Learn Haftara 17:7-8

Keep smoothing out haftara before that point.

We, Feb 28 NO LESSSON – AVA IN THE BAHAMAS! If you so desire and have the time, you can always do another line or two!
We, Mar 6

4:20-4:40pm

Ava wasn’t able to learn 17:8. Retake that today.

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 17:8-9 (and possibly 10)

Learn Haftara 17:8-9, and if you do that really well and have time to do 17:10, go for it!
We, Mar 13 NO LESSON (CJG VACATION), but please continue with the homework at right ===> Learn Haftara 17:10-11
We, Mar 20

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 17:11-12

Review Maftir

Learn Haftara 17:11-12

Practice maftir with the audio file a few times so that you get the Torah tropes in your head and not switch to haftara tropes.

We, Mar 27

4:37-4:4opm*

Traffic!

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 17:13

Review Maftir (for correct, Torah, tropes)

Learn Haftara 17:13
We, Apr 3

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 17:14

Re-smooth out blessing before Haftara

Learn Haftara 17:14 (last verse!)

Smooth out / focus on Haftara 17:11 to the end

We, Apr 10

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara (entire, with blessing before)

Prepare 1st half of blessing 1 after Haftara

Smooth out Haftara, verse 10 to the end

Learn Blessing 1 after Haftara, first half, up to emet vatzedek

We, Apr 17

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara, last two pages

Review Blessing 1 after Haftara first half

Prepare 2nd half of Blessing 1 after haftara

Learn 2nd half of Blessing 1 after haftara

Spend more time smoothing out Haftara, last 2 pages

We, Apr 24 NO LESSON, but please do homework at right ===> Learn Blessing 2 after haftara
We, May 1

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara last 2 pages for smoothness

Review Blessings after Haftara 1-2

Prepare Blessing 3 after haftara, up to nish-bata lo, AND if you do a great job with that, see if you can finish blessing 3 (ie. up to Magein David)

Review Maftir

Smooth out haftara from verse 10

 

We, May 8

4:20-4:40pm

Review Haftara from v9

Review Blessings 1-3 after haftara

Hopefully prepare first half of blessing 4 after the haftara

Smooth out blessing 2 after the haftara, mainly for the notes, ie., to stay in the same key throughout. Be careful to pronounce the last word properly: “b’-” (2 notes) va-NEH-ha.

Learn blessing 4 after haftara, first half, up to ul-tif-A-ret.

Go back to blessing 3 and make sure it’s smooth and confident.

We, May 15

4:20-4:40pm

Review whole haftara with blessings after haftara up to ul-tif-aret

Prepare rest of blessing 4 after haftara

Review Haftara

Learn rest of blessing 4 after haftara (from al hakol)

Make sure all of blessing 4 is smooth

We, May 22

**5:40-6pm

Review Blessings after haftara (entire)

Review Haftara with blessing before, starting at 17:5

Spend this week getting smoother and smoother at the blessings after the haftara. Do a bit more listening to the audio files, one blessing per homework sitting.
We, May 29

4:20-4:40pm

Review blessings after haftara

Review maftir (for June 1)

In your maftir, sort out the tune of lo y’vakeir and tziva Adonai – both are t’vir tropes. Use the audio file – listen a bunch of times to each of those and “re-learn” it. Concentrate on going down just ONE tone.

Once you’re smooth at the whole maftir, practice from the Torah photo

**Th, June 6

5:40-6pm

(Confirmed by Frédérique)

Review Maftir from the Torah scroll pic

Review entire Haftara

Fix circled word at the end of your haftara
Th, June 13 NO LESSON – SHAVUOT Keep practicing everything, including your d’var Torah
Fr, June 14

Minyan & Runthough

7:15am – Tallit & T’filin

7:30 – Minyan

8:20 – Breakfast

8:45 – Sanctuary runthrough

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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 B’chukotai (PDF | MP3) – All in Lev., Ch 27

32 – 0:00 33 – 0:19 34 – 0:47

Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)

Haftara B’chukotai (PDF | MP3) – Jeremiah, Chapters 16 & 17

16:19 – 0:00 20 – 0:36 21 – 0:49 17:1 – 1:13 2 – 1:41 3 – 2:01 4 – 2:22
5 – 3:01 6 – 3:29 7 – 3:56 8 – 4:12 9 – 4:59 10 – 5:14 11 – 5:38
12 – 6:05 13 – 6:20 14 – 6:48

Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)

Torah Service (PDF | MP3 folder)

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE

Torah Trope – DONE

Maftir aliya – DONE, INCLUDE FROM TORAH PIC

Blessing before Haftara – DONEA

Haftara – DONE

Blessings after Haftara – DONEA

D’var Torah (with Dad & Rav Baruch) – DONE

Notes