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 |
Learn Torah trope second half, from pazer.
Practice singing the whole page for next lesson. Make sure you’re focusing on the trope symbols themselves, not so much the words (see reason above) |
| Th, May 16
4-4:20pm |
Review Torah Trope sheet
Prepare R’ei Aliya 3, 12:6 |
Learn R’ei Aliya 3, 12:6 |
| Th, May 23
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3, 12:6
Prepare Aliya 3, 12:7 |
Learn Aliya 3, 12:7 |
| Th, May 30
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 12:8 and 12:9 up to v’el hanachala |
Learn Aliya 3, 12:8 and 12:9 up to v’el hanachala |
| Th, June 6
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, rest-of-12:9, and 12:10 – two weeks to learn it b/c no lesson on Shavuot |
Learn Aliya 3, rest-of-12:9, and 12:10 – two weeks to learn it b/c no lesson on Shavuot |
| Th, June 13 | NO LESSON – SHAVUOT | Keep learning material from last lesson |
| Th, June 20
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3
Prepare Eliyahu Hanavi Prepare Hinei Eil Yeshuati first 4 lines |
Practice Aliya 3 from the Lefthand side (from now on).
Review Eliyahu Hanavi Learn Hinei Eil Yeshuati (song) first 4 lines. The MP3 is inside the Havdallah folder linked in the downloads section below. |
| Th, June 27
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 from Lefthand side
Review Havdallah to date Prepare THREE weeks worth of homework (because CJG will be on vacation, but you should keep learning. |
Week 1 (From June 27): Smooth out Hinei Eil Y’shuati printed lines 1-4
Week 2 (From July 4): Learn Hinei printed lines 5-7 (up to kor-einu) Week 3 (From July 11): Learn the next 2 printed lines (up to uv-sheim Adonai Ekra) Week 4 (Fromy July 18): Make sure all of the above is smooth! |
| SUMMER BREAK | NO LESSONS (Cantor Away) | Keep working on the above homework! |
| Th, Aug 1
4-4:20pm |
Review Aliya 3
Review Havdallah to date Prepare Havdallah: Savri, Gafen, B’samim, Eish, and Hamavdil |
Learn last (Hamavdil) paragraph of Havdallah using the “Havdallah – Debbie Friedman” audio file in the folder below.
Please bring to your next lesson your D’var Torah that you’ve been working with Rav Baruch on. |
| Th, Aug 8
4-4:20pm |
Review Havdallah
Review Aliya 3 with blessings Practice D’var Torah |
Smooth out last of the havdallah blessings, making sure to hold the circled words/syllables longer
Finish writing your D’var Torah/Speech, including the thank-you’s and the transitions. |
| **Th, Aug 16
1-1:30pm |
Last lesson (aside from our runthrough next Thursday morning)!
Review Everything! |
Print out your D’var Torah — use a large font (even if that means more pages), number your pages, and write all over it “SLOW!” and “LOUDER!”
Review first stanza of “Hinei El Yeshuati” so you get that opening tune right (eftach v’lo echad comes down for the last note) |
| Th, Aug 22, morning
7:15 Tallit/T’filin (Afternoon “usual” lesson slot not needed) |
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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 – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Weekday R’ei Aliya 3 – DONE
Havdallah – DONE
D’var Torah (with Rabbi RFK) – IN PROCESS from May 29, 2024