Micah, 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 Cantor Green 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 |
| Tu, Feb 27
6:45-7:30pm Cantor’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. |
| Th, Mar 21
4:40-5:00pm |
Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided)
Reviewed Blessing Before and After Torah reading
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Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) – DONE ALREADY!
Learn Torah Trope like a song, first half, up to the “]” using the audio file in the downloads section, below. |
| Th, Mar 28
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Trope first half
Prepare Torah Trope second half |
Learn Torah Trope second half |
| Th, Apr 4
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah trope
Prepare Maftir for Shabbat Rosh Chodesh, 28:9-10 |
Learn Maftir 28:9-10, and 28:11 up to Ladonai |
| Th, Apr 11
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir rest-of-28:11 and 28:12 up to vashemen |
Learn Maftir rest-of-28:11 and 28:12 up to vashemen |
| Th, Apr 18
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir rest-of-28:12 and 28:13 |
Work on “v’A-yil echad” in 28:11
Learn Maftir rest-of-28:12 |
| Th, Apr 25 | NO LESSON – PASSOVER, but please do homework at right ===> | Learn Maftir 28:13 |
| Th, May 2
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 28:14 |
Fix “isheh Ladonai”
Learn Maftir 28:14 |
| Th, May 9
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 28:15 Prepare Haftara Trope |
Learn Maftir 28:15
Learn Haftara trope sheet (try to do whole sheet, but “quality rather quantity” is the goal!) |
| Th, May 16
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Maftir
Review Haftara Trope Prepare Blessing before the Haftara |
Finish smoothing out Maftir, v15, especially l’chatat Ladonai
“AND, 4. every week, you MUST review at least once, everything learned to date, and FIX any glitches.“ Learn Blessing before Haftara |
| Th, May 23
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir (esp. v15)
Review Blessing before Haftara Prepare Haftara 66:1 and 66:2 up to n’um Adonai |
Smooth out blessing before Haftara
Learn Haftara 66:1 and 66:2 up to n’um Adonai |
| Th, May 30
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date withe blessing before
Prepare rest-of-66:2 and 66:3 up to m’vareich aven |
Smooth out v’ha-aretz notes
Learn Haftara, rest-of-66:2 and 66:3 up to m’vareich aven |
| Th, Jun 6
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara, rest-of-66:3 and 66:4 |
Touch up circled words in verses 2 and 3
Learn rest of 66:3, and 66:4. If you need to focus on quality rather than quantity (it’s too much to complete) stop at shamei-u. |
| Th, June 13 | NO LESSON – SHAVUOT | Keep doing homework from last lesson(s) |
| Th, June 20
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 66:5 and 66:6 up to mei-heichal |
Learn Haftara 66:5 and 66:6 up to mei-heichal |
| We, Jul 24
11-11:15 AT CBB |
Reviewed everything learned so far | Micah remembered it all really well! |
| Th, June 27
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
LAST LESSON BEFORE CAMP! NO HOMEWORK. BRING YOUR BM FOLDER TO CAMP FOR TWO SESSIONS (TBC) MID-SUMMER. Micah is back from camp Aug 16. |
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| Th, Aug 8
1:30-1:50pm ZOOM |
Review Maftir, and haftara to date (with opening blessing) | Enjoy the rest of your time at camp! |
| Th, Aug 22
4:40-5pm IN PERSON |
Review Maftir for smoothness
Prepare Haftara rest-of-66:6 and 66:7 and 66:8 up to ka-eileh |
Maftir: touch up “ush-lishit” in v28:14 and “yei-aseh” (2nd to last word)
Learn Haftara rest-of-66:6 and 66:7 and 66:8 up to ka-eileh |
| Th, Aug 29
4:40-5pm |
Review last 3 p’sukim of maftir
Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara rest-of-66:8 and 66:9 |
In the blessing before Haftara, fix the trope (notes of melech ha-olam ==> asher) – go up one tone from ha-olam to get to the starting note for asher.
Learn Haftara 66:8-9 |
| Th, Sep 5
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara to date
STOP HAFTARA NEW LEARNING FOR NOW Prepare Blessing 1 after haftara (entire) Prepare Haftara 66:11-12 |
Learn Blessing 1 after haftara (entire)
If you can, learn Haftara 66:11-12 to keep adding haftara material. |
| **Tu, Sep 10
5:30-5:50pm |
Review Blessing 1 after Haftara
Review Haftara from 66:10 Prepare Blessings 2 & 3 after haftara Suggest learning 66:12 |
Learn Blessings 2 & 3 after haftara
Try to learn Haftara, 66:12 |
| Th, Sep 19
4:40-5pm |
Review Blessings after Haftara to date
Prepare Blessing 4 after Haftara Review Haftara from 66:10 Prepare Haftara 66:13-14 |
Learn Blessing 4 after Haftara. Concentrate hard on “b’-fee” (kol chai tamid…)
Try to learn Haftara 66:13-14 |
| Th, Sep 26
4:40-5pm |
Review all 4 blessings after Haftara
Review Haftara from 66:10 Prepare Haftara 66:15-16 |
Amazing work learning blessing 4 when you didn’t think you had!
Learn Haftara 66:15-16 |
| Th, Oct 3 | NO LESSON – ROSH HASHANAH | Learn Haftara 66:17 and 66:18 up to Ba’a |
| Th, Oct 10
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara from 66:12
Prepare Haftara rest-of-66:18 and 66:19 up to har’chokim |
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Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope | Haftara Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Maftir for Shabbat Rosh Chodesh (PDF | MP3) – Verses (all in Numbers, Ch. 28):
| 9 – 0:00 | 10 – 0:26 | 11 – 0:37 | 12 – 1:03 | 13 – 1:31 | 14 – 1:54 | 15 – 2:29 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara for Shabbat/Rosh Chodesh (all in Isaiah Ch 66 – PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:26 | 3 – 0:49 | 4 – 1:25 | 5 – 2:02 | 6 – 2:37 | 7 – 2:54 |
| 8 – 3:11 | 9 – 3:43 | 10 – 4:04 | 11 – 4:25 | 12 – 4:46 | 13 – 5:22 | 14 – 5:42 |
| 15 – 6:06 | 16 – 6:28 | 17 – 6:45 | 18 – 7:17 | 19 – 7:42 | 20 – 8:32 | 21 – 9:28 |
| 22 – 9:41 | 23 – 10:11 | 24 – 10:35 | 23-rpt – 11:05 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Torah Service (folder)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Maftir aliya – DONE
Haftara Trope – DONE
Blessing before Haftara – DONE
Haftara – IN PROGRESS
Blessings after Haftara – DONE
Torah Processional (TBC Sh’ma/Echad/Gad’lu) –
Ashrei (tune of Anim Z’mirot) – DONE
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Polansky) – IN PROGRESS
Conclusion of services (Ein Keiloheinu, Aleinu, Adon Olam) – DONE
Ilana would like to read a short Torah aliya
Other family members might be intersted too.