EMMA, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your Bat 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 cantor@kehillatbethisrael.com or call/text 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 – FAMILY MUST READ: KBI B’nei Mitzvah Handbook ONLINE
Click here to confirm your family has read and understood the entire handbook (required).
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, Apr 11, 2024
Cantor’s office 4-4:20pm |
Intro to Webpage
Goal Setting Write name, URL on BM folder (provided) |
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, Apr 18
4-4:20pm |
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading | Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Th, Apr 25 | NO LESSON – PASSOVER | |
| Th May 2
4-4:20pm |
Review Blessings before and after Torah reading
Prepare Torah Trope First half |
Learn Torah Trope sheet, first half (up to first sof pasuk)
By the time you’re ready to sing it through confidently without the audio file, you should be focusing on the shape/colour of the trope symbols rather than the words, because it’s the symbols you’ll be seeing in your actual Torah reading. Practice Torah blessings, making sure they get smoother and smoother (more confident). Remember, every week, you MUST review at least once, everything learned to date, and FIX any glitches. |
| Th, May 9
4-4:20pm |
Review Torah Trope first half
Prepare Torah Trope second half |
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Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Weekday R’ei Aliya 3 (All in Deut. Chapter 11 – PDF | MP3)
| 6 – 0:00 | 7 – 0:25 | 8 – 0:49 | 9 – 1:06 | 10 – 1:22 |
Weekday R’ei Aliya 2 (from Deut. Chapter 11 & 12 – PDF | MP3)
| 11:32 – 0:00 | 12:1 – 0:17 | 2 – 0:49 | 3 – 1:21 | 4 – 1:47 | 5 – 1:56 |
Weekday R’ei Aliya 1 (All in Deut. Chapter 12 – PDF | MP3)
| 26 – 0:00 | 27 – 0:12 | 28 – 0:30 | 29 – 1:02 | 30 – 1:27 | 31 – 1:50 |
Shabbat Mincha Torah Processional
Havdallah (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Torah Trope –
Weekday R’ei Aliya 3 –
Havdallah –
Torah Processional? –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi RFK) –