LEVI, 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 20
6:45-7:30pm 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. |
| Tu, Mar 5
4:30-4:50pm |
Write name and URL on BM folder (provided)
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
You have two weeks to learn this because there is no lesson next week (March Break). Suggest learning “Blessing before” this week, and “Blessing after” next week. |
| Tu, Mar 12 | NO LESSON – MARCH BREAK, CANTOR AWAY | Keep doing homework from last week (2 blessings) |
| Tu, Mar 19
4:30-4:50pm |
Review 2 Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope, first half |
Learn Torah Trope, first half, up to first sof pasuk
The materials for this are in the dowloads section, below. |
| Tu, Mar 26
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Torah Trope 1st half Prepare Torah Trope 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope 2nd half
Make sure you can sing the whole page by the end of your homework week. Keep reviewing Torah blessings |
| Tu, Apr 2
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Torah Trope
Review Torah blessings Prepare Aliya 3, 23:13 |
Smooth out blessings before and after Torah reading
Learn Aliya 3, 23:13 using the homework technique above. Note that if you do this well, each week, the shape of the words should start coalescing in your mind’s eye around the sound of the word in the recording (or that you’re singing) so that ‘reading the Hebrew’ is less important. Basically you’re memorizing but the shape of the words becomes a “hint”. |
| Tu, Apr 9
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Aliya 3, 23:13 Prepare Aliya 3, 23:14-15 |
Learn Aliya 3, 23:14-15 |
| Tu, Apr 16
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 23:16 for during Passover |
Finish learning aliya 3, 23:15
Smooth out all of aliya 3 |
| Tu, Apr 23 & 30 | NO LESSONS – PASSOVER
But please do homework at right over this period before our next lesson: |
Learn Aliya 3, 23:16 over the next 2 weeks
Be prepared to demonstrate all of Aliya 3 next lesson! |
| Tu, May 7
4:30-4:50pm |
Review all of aliya 3
Prepare Aliya 2, 23:8 |
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Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Chayei Sarah Weekday Aliya 3 – All in Gen. 23 (PDF | MP3)
| 13 – 0:00 | 14 – 0:30 | 15 – 0:41 | 16 – 1:04 |
Chayei Sarah Weekday Aliya 2 – All in Gen. 23 (PDF | MP3)
| 8 – 0:00 | 9 – 0:24 | 10 – 0:52 | 11 – 1:18 | 12 – 1:47 |
Chayei Sarah Weekday Aliya 1 – All in Gen. 23 (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:19 | 3 – 0:43 | 4 – 0:59 | 5 – 1:19 | 6 – 1:32 | 7 – 2:07 |
Torah Service (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – IN PROGRESS
Weekday Chayei Sarah aliya 3 –
Weekday Chayei Sarah aliya 2 –
Weekday Chayei Sarah aliya 1 –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi ???) –