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 “]”. |
| 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 “ishah Ladonai”
Learn Maftir 28:14 |
| Th, May 9
4:40-5pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 28:15 Prepare Haftara Trope first half |
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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 (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Maftir aliya – IN PROGRESS
Haftara Trope –
Blessing before Haftara
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional (Ashrei) –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi ???) –
Conclusion of services (Ein Keiloheinu, Aleinu, Adon Olam)
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel
Ilana would like to read a short Torah aliya
Other family members might be intersted too.