Livia, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your OMJS Bat 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 me 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
8:00-8:20pm |
Prepare Blessing before Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) | Learn Blessing before Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) |
| Su, Jan 28
8:00-8:20pm |
Review Blessing before Torah Reading
Prepare Blessing after Torah reading Do Trope Walkthrough/Explanation |
Learn Blessing after Torah Reading (PDF | MP3) |
| Su, Feb 4
11:10-11:30am 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
11:50-12:10am |
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 | NO LESSON – FAMILY DAY WEEKEND | |
| Su, Feb 25
11:20-11:40am |
Review Torah Trope
Prepare Aliya 2 R”Ch |
Learn aliya 2, 28:3. You may need to listen to certain spots several more times that the rest of it. |
| Su, Mar 3
11:15-11:34am |
Review Aliya 2, 28:3
Prepare aliya 2, 28:4 Review Torah blessings |
Learn aliya 2, 28:4
Smooth out aliya 2, 28:3 from last week. Practice the whole aliya to date |
| Su, Mar 10 | NO LESSON – MARCH BREAK | Keep practicing everything learned so far (except the Torah Trope sheet |
| Su, Mar 17
11:30-11:50am ZOOM |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Re-prepare Aliya 2, 28:4 |
Learn Aliya 2, 28:4
You MUST review all of Aliya 2 to date, with your Torah blessings. If there’s anything in verse 3 that isn’t confident, you must go back to the audio file for that and work on the parts that aren’t confident. |
| Su, Mar 24 (PURIM DAY)
**7:30-7:50pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 28:5 (last verse of aliya 2) |
Learn Aliya 2, 28:5
Make all of Aliya 2 smooth (including ta-aseh va-boker) |
| Su, Mar 31
11:10-11:30am |
Review Aliya 2 – Great work at home this past week!! Do it again! And again!!
Prepare Aliya 4, 28:11 |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:11 |
| Su, Apr 7
7:00-7:20pm |
Review Aliya 2
Re-prepare last week’s learning (Livia forgot to practice this week) – Aliya 4, 28:11 |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:11
Practice Torah blessings, making sure you pronounce the ‘ch‘ in Baruch! |
| Su, Apr 14
**9:45-10:05am |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, 28:12 |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:12 |
| Su, Apr 21
11:10-11:30am |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, 28:13 |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:13 |
| Su, Apr 28
11:10-11:30am |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, 28:14 |
Learn Aliya 4, 28:14. Spend a bunch of time listening (on repeat) to chatzi ha-hin to get the hin note right. |
| Su, May 5
12:05-12:25 |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Work on 28:14, which wasn’t ready yet |
Finish learning Aliya 4, 28:14
Re-listen to aliya 2 a few times and practice doing it yourself smoothly. We don’t want you to forget it at this point! Make sure all you “min-cha” words are min not mim!! |
| Su, May 12
NO LESSON – CANTOR ILL |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare aliya 4, 28:15 |
NO HOMEWORK GIVEN TODAY |
| Th, May 16
5:40-6pm on ZOOM |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare aliya 4, 28:15 |
1. Learn aliya 4, 28:15
2. Go back and smooth out 28:14 with the notes the way we practiced in the session |
| Su, May 26
9:55-11:15 |
Review all of Aliya 4
Review aliya 2 with blessings Prepare Sh’ma Yisrael line |
In aliya 2, practice:
Aliya 4:
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| Su, June 2
11:10-11:30am |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare last verse in repeat-after-me style |
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Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 2 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 3 – 0:00 | 4 – 0:23 | 5 – 0:38 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 4 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 11 – 0:00 | 12 – 0:26 | 13 – 0:52 | 14 – 1:13 | 15 – 1:45 |
Weekday Torah Service – PROcessional (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Rosh Chodesh Aliya 2 – IN PROGRESS
Rosh Chodesh Aliya 4 –
Torah PROcessional –
D’var Torah –
Ya’el bat ??? v’???