Ethan, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your OMJS Bar Mitzvah. To ensure simcha success, please use the tools and downloadable items provided here to learn and practice your training assignments between visits with Cantor Jason. 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 Cantor Jason know if there’s a problem right away.
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Sun, Jan 14,
9:45-10:45am |
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. |
| Su, Jan 21
11:15-11:35am |
Prepare Blessing before Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) | Learn Blessing before Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) |
| Su, Jan 28
8:20-8:40pm |
Review Blessing before Torah Reading
Prepare Blessing after Torah reading Do Trope Walkthrough/Explanation |
Learn Blessing after Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) |
| Su, Feb 4
11:30-11:50am at OMJS |
Review Blessings before and after Torah
Prepare Torah Trope 1st half |
Learn Torah trope first half like a song, but when you are ready to sing it on your own without the audio file, try to focus on (or look at) only the trope symbols.
Note that the Torah Trope resources are at the top of the “downloads” section below. Use the suggested homework technique, above. |
| Su, Feb 11
11:30-11:50am |
Review Torah blessings
Review Torah trope first half Prepare Torah trope second half |
Learn Torah trope second half
Be able to sing the whole page fluently |
| Su, Feb 18 (Family Day Long Wkd)
10-10:20am BY PHONE |
Review Torah trope
Ethan had a concussion and couldn’t do his homework. Re-prepare Torah Trope 2nd half. |
Learn Torah trope second half
Be able to sing the whole page fluently |
| Su, Feb 25 OMJS
11:10-11:30am |
Review Torah Trope
Prepare Aliya 1, 28:1 and 28:2 up to rei-ach nichochi |
Learn Aliya 1, 28:1 and 28:2 up to rei-ach nichochi |
| Su, Mar 3
11:30-11:50am |
Review Aliya 1 to date with Torah Blessings
Prepare rest-of-28:2 and 28:3 |
Learn rest-of-28:2 (from tish-m’ru) and 28:3 (to the end of the aliya). |
| Su, Mar 10 | NO LESSON (MARCH BREAK) But please do the homework at right ===> | Work on and smooth out everything we’ve worked on so far (except the trope sheet) |
| Su, Mar 17
11:30-11:50 |
Review Aliya 1 (entire)
Prepare beginning of aliya 3 |
Print Aliya 3 IN COLOUR at home.
Learn Aliya 3, 28:6 and 28:7 up to bakodesh |
| Su, Mar 24
**7:50-8:10pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 1 to keep it fresh
Review Aliya 3 to date Prepare Aliya 3, rest-of 28:7 and 28:8 |
Practice Aliya 1, 28:1 – make sure Mo-SHEH has no ‘ch‘
And end of 28:3, fix t’mi-mim Learn Aliya 3, 28:6 and up to bakodesh (a repeat assignment from last week). Practice the blessing over bread: …ha-MO-tzi LE-chem MIN ha-A-retz (Clap your hands in rhythm starting with the “MO” syllable; each clap is a bold syllable, above). |
| Su, Mar 31 | NO LESSON – ETHAN AWAY | Keep working on the homework above. |
| Su, Apr 7
**7:20-7:40pm |
Review Aliya 1
Review Aliya 3 to date Prepare rest-of 28:7 and 28:8 |
Good job learning the whole aliya! Now it just needs confidence and the correct transitions from word to work.
So, this week, go back to the audio files and smooth out in Aliya 3, 27:6-7. If that goes quickly, you can also work on 27:8 (or some of it)! |
| Su, Apr 14
**10:00-10:20am |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 27:8 |
Print COLOUR copy of Aliya 3, so you can see the tropes.
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| Su, Apr 21
11:10-11:30am |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Review Aliya 1 (for the fixes listed in the homework) Prepare Aliya 3, 27:9-10 |
Practice Aliyot 1 and 3 from LEFTHAND side
Practice Torah Blessings |
| Su, Apr 28
11:30-11:50am |
Review Aliyot 1 and 3 from lefthand side
Prepare Torah Recessional |
In Aliya 3, practice from left-hand side, and spend an extra few moments making the pronunciation of ha-seich correct.
Smooth out the transition into the last paragraph of Aliya 3 (uv-yom ha-shabbat) Smooth out the bump in ha-tamid (ie., make the ha- and ta syllables the same length) |
| Su, May 5
11:30-11:50am |
Review both aliyot from Torah side
Prepare Sh’ma Yisrael |
Learn Sh’ma Yisrael (PNG | MP3 from 0:19 to 0:33) |
| Su, May 12
**9:00pm-9:20pm |
Review 2 aliyot, practice blessing choreography
Review Sh’ma |
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| Su, May 26
9:45-9:55 |
Review everything | Keep reviewing everthing! You’re in maintenance mode now. |
| _________________________ | _______________________________ |
Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 1 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:09 | 3 – 0:34 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 3 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 6 – 0:00 | 7 – 0:17 | 8 – 0:34 | 9 – 0:56 | 10 – 1:17 |
Weekday Torah Service – REcessional (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Rosh Chodesh Aliya 1 -DONE
Rosh Chodesh Aliya 3 – DONE
Sh’ma Yisrael – IN PROGRESS
Andrew Goldstein (Dad) is Avraham Zisser ben Mayer Berel
(Mom isn’t Jewish)
Ethan is Eitan ben Avraham Zisser v’Erin
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