Abby, 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 and understood the entire handbook (required).
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, Jan 4, 2024
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 (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, Jan 17
4-4:20pm |
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading | Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Listen to the Torah Trope Sheet MP3 (below) at least 10-15 times, and after the 5th time, start following the audio file while looking at the symbols themselves rather than the hebrew names of the symbols. This will help during actual Torah reading prep. IF you find that you blast through the Torah blessings learning, you can use the homework technique above to actually complete a learning of the Trope Sheet. That is: Listen / Sing along / Sing without the audio file. |
| We, Jan 24
4-4:20pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Finish preparing Torah Trope |
Learn Torah Trope. Once you are smoothly singing along with the audio file, stop looking at the name of the trope, and start concentrating on the SYMBOL of the trope and associating that with the sound. That will help you enormously as you learn your Torah reading. |
| We, Jan 31
4-4:20pm |
Review Torah Trope
Prepare Aliya 2 (bat Levi!), 28:13, and 28:14 up to vaneg-bah |
Learn Aliya 2, 28:13 and 28:14 up to vaneg-bah
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| We, Feb 7
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 28:14 |
Learn Aliya 2, 28:14
Tweak the melody of the Torah blessings using the audio file so that each of the word sets Cantor Green has put in parentheses repeats the melody over and over. |
| We, Feb 14
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 28:15 and 18:16 up to vayomer |
Learn Aliya 2, 28:15 and 28:16 up to vayomer. You have two weeks to do this! If you have lots of free time, try and do some more of 28:16! That would really impress me! |
| We, Feb 21 | NO LESSON, Abby at cottage | |
| We, Feb 28
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare rest of 28:16 and 28:17 |
Learn rest of Aliya 2 |
| We, Mar 6
4-4:20pm |
Review all of Aliya 2
Prepare Aliya 3, 28:18 for this week, and 28:19 and 28:20 up to leimor |
Touch up Aliya 2, 28:17
Learn Aliya 3, 28:18 for this week |
| We, Mar 13 | NO LESSON – CJG AWAY/VACA, but please do the homework at right ===> | Learn Aliya 3, 28:19 and 28:20 up to leimor for this week |
| We, Mar 20
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, rest of 28:20 Review Aliya 2 for the fixed-up ending |
Learn Aliya 3, rest of 28:20 (from im yih-yeh Elohim) |
| We, Mar 27
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare aliya 3, 28:21-22 (end) |
Learn aliya 3, 28:21-22 (end)
Fix the trope of “Zeh” in Aliya 2, last verse (4 notes going downwards). Use the audio file a few times to confirm and solidify your singing of it. |
| We, Apr 3
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 (entire, from STA”M side)
Review Aliya 2 (entire, from STA”M side) Prepare Aliya 1, 28:10-11 |
Learn Aliya 1, 28:10-11 |
| We, Apr 10
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare rest-of-Aliya 1 |
Smooth out Aliya 1, 28:11
Learn Aliya 1, 28:12 |
| We, Apr 17
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 1
Prepare Eliyahu Hanavi Prepare Hinei Eil Yeshuati first verse (up to lishua) |
Smooth out Aliya 1
Finish Learning Eliyahu Hanavi. The audio files for havdallah are linked in the “Havdallah (folder)” section of the Downloads, below. |
| We, Apr 24 | NO LESSON – PASSOVER, but please do homework at right ===> | Learn Hinei Eil Yeshuati (song) first two printed (Hebrew lines), up to lishuah
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| We, May 1
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 1
Review Havdallah to date Prepare next 4 lines of Hinei (song) Review Aliyot 2 and 3 |
Smooth out Aliya 1 (and makes sure Aliyot 2 and 3 are also smooth)
Learn Hinei Eil next 4 lines up to botei-ach bach (even though it’s a weird place to stop, musically). Suggestion: list to the last 3 verses of aliya 3 to refamiliarize yourself with it and regain the confidence |
| We, May 8
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 1
Review Havdallah to date Prepare another 2-3 lines of Hinei Eil Y’shuati Review Aliya 3 for smoothness, and if it needs work, assign for homework. |
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Torah Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Vayeitzei Aliya 1 (Kohein) – All in Gen. Chapter 28 (PDF | MP3)
| 10 – 0:00 | 11 – 0:13 | 12 – 0:38 |
Vayeitzei Aliya 2 (Levi) – All in Gen. Chapter 28 (PDF | MP3)
| 13 – 0:00 | 14 – 0:37 | 15 – 1:06 | 16 – 1:41 | 17 – 2:07 |
Vayeitzei Aliya 3 – All in Gen. Chapter 28 (PDF | MP3)
| 18 – 0:00 | 19 – 0:27 | 20 – 0:46 | 21 – 1:23 | 22 – 1:42 |
Havdallah (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha From Ashrei (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Amida (Folder)
Tol’dot Aliya 7 / Maftir – Gillian (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Shabbat Machar Chodesh (Erev Rosh Chodesh) – All in 1 Samuel, Chapter 20 (PDF | MP3)
| 18 – 0:00 | 19 – 0:17 | 20 – 0:44 | 21 – 0:59 | 22 – 1:44 | 23 – 2:05 | 24 – 2:27 |
| 25 – 2:48 | 26 – 3:25 | 27 – 3:51 | 28 – 4:29 | 29 – 4:48 | 30 – 5:36 | 31 – 6:10 |
| 32 – 6:43 | 33 – 7:02 | 34 – 7:30 | 35 – 7:58 | 36 – 8:17 | 37 – 8:45 | 38 – 9:13 |
| 39 – 9:40 | 40 – 9:56 | 41 – 10:16 | 42 – 10:59 |
Blessings before and after Torah reading – IN PROGRESS
Aliya 2 – DONE (incl. Torah Side)
Aliya 3 – DONE (incl. Torah Side)
Aliya 1 – IN PROGRESS
Havdallah (all 5 family members) –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (taught by Gillian) –
Mitzvah Project with Rabbi ???
Abby is a Bat Leivi
For Sat., Nov. 30 Mincha/Ma’ariv Havdallah:
3:00-3:45 – Mincha
3:45-4:35 – S’udah (10 minutes grace to bring people back to sanct)
4:45 – Ma’ariv
5:03 – Havdallah time
Abby just one Torah aliya (Aliya 2 since she is a Bat Levi)
Gillian will help Abby with D’var Torah
Younger 2 kids want to do something – Torah Pro/Recessional
Mischa / Hallie
All 5 lead Havdallah together
Family plans to come that Saturday morning, sponsor kiddush, Gillian will do an aliya (CJG suggested: aliya 7 & maf, 5 p’sukim) and would like to do haftara (Machar Chodesh)
Rabbi Kenter is coming, confirmed. Could officiate Mincha/Ma’arv, if it’s okay with the shul and any rabbi present.