Noah, 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, July 23
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, Nov 7, 2023
5:40-6pm |
Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided)
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) using the homework technique in the cell above this one. |
| Th, Nov 14
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope 1st half like a song |
Smooth out the Torah blessings, making sure you sing the blessings, and that you over-pronounce all the “ch” sounds.
Learn Torah Trope, first half, like a song, but once you’re singing it smoothly, start focusing your eyes on the SYMBOLS themselves rather than the words, because THOSE are what will appear in your actual Torah reading. (PDF | Torah Trope MP3) |
| Th, Nov 21
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah blessings for smoothness and notes
Review Torah Trope first half Prepare Torah Trope second half |
Re-study Torah Trope 1st half using the homework technique above |
| Th, Nov 28 | NO LESSON – CANTOR GREEN ON VACATION, but please do homework at right ===> | Learn Torah Trope 2nd half, again using the homework technique above.
Connect the two halves together so you can do the whole sheet fluidly. |
| Th, Dec 5
5:40-6pm NO LESSON – CJG SICK |
Review Torah Trope
Review Torah blessings Prepare Weekday Lech L’cha aliya 3 |
NO LESSON THIS WEEK, BUT PLEASE DO THIS HOMEWORK ON YOUR OWN:
Learn Aliya 3, 12:10 Use the printout of Aliya 3 that I gave you (or the PDF for Aliya 3, below) and the MP3 for Aliya 3, starting at the beginning of the audio file. Note that you may now need to log into OneDrive with your own account (or a parent’s account) to preview the PDF on-screen. Otherwise, you should be able to download the file without logging in (link to “DOWNLOAD” is usually in the top left corner of the screen once you hit the PDF link below.). MP3s continue to work normally in your browser window. |
| Th, Dec 12
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah Trope
Review Torah Blessings Review Aliya 3 to date Prepare Aliya 3, 12:10 and 12:11 up to mitzrayma |
Learn Aliya 3, 12:10 and 12:11 up to mitzrayma |
| Th, Dec 19
5:40-6pm. |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare rest of 12:11 and 12:12 |
Learn over the winter break, in two chunks:
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| WINTER BREAK | ||
| Th, Jan 9
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 3 so far
Work on 12:11-12 – they’re at least half-way learned already |
Finish learning (almost there already!) 12:11-12
Remember step 4 of the homework technique: 4. every week, you MUST review at least once, everything learned to date, and FIX any glitches. Also, you need to come to synagogue services. We currently have mincha |
| Th, Jan 16
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 12:13 |
Learn Aliya 3, 12:13
Smooth out Aliya 3, 12:12 (particularly transliterated words) Re-study blessings before and after Torah reading |
| Th, Jan 23
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Aliya 3 Prepare Aliya 2, 12:4 |
Learn Aliya 2, 12:4
Re-study blessings before and after Torah reading making sure you sing the simple melody rather than just reciting the words. |
| Th, Jan 30
5:30-5:50pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Aliya 2 to date Prepare Aliya 2, 12:5 up to ben-achiv Review Aliya 3 |
Finish learning Aliya 2, 12:4
Learn Aliya 2, 12:5 up to ben-achiv Please remember to spread out your learning over the week, at least 3 sessions of 20 minutes each. |
| Th, Feb 6
5:40-6pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 12:5 |
Smooth out the beginning of Aliya 2, verse 12:5 up to ben-achiv
Learn aliya 2, verse 12:5 from v’et-kol-r’chusham up to vayeitz’u. |
| Th, Feb 13
5:20-5:40pm ZOOM |
Review Aliya 2 to date
prepare rest of Aliya 2, 12:5 and 12:6 |
Use this week to smooth out Aliya 2 up to 12:5, vayeitz’u. |
| Th, Feb 20 | NO LESSON, But please do homework at right ==> | Learn aliya 2, rest of 12:5 |
| Th, Feb 27
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NO LESSON – FAMILY CANCELED DUE TO SCHEDULING ISSUES
But please do the homework at right ==>
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Learn Aliya 2, 12:6 using the usual resources. Do a little extra listening at the beginning since we didn’t have a lesson to get you familiar with the text/tune. |
| Th, Mar 6
4:30-4:50pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 12:6 and 12:7 up to et ha-aretz hazot Review Aliya 3 |
Smooth out aliya 2, 12:6 being careful to pronounce the words correctly: m’kom (not ma-kom) and v’-ha-k’-na-a-ni.
Learn Aliya 2, 12:7 up to et ha-aretz hazot |
| Th, Mar 13
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LESSON CANCELED – LEVINES ON MARCH BREAK
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| Th, Mar 20 | NO LESSON – CJG MEDICAL LEAVE
BUT PLEASE DO THE HOMEWORK AT RIGHT ===> |
Learn aliya 2, rest-of-12:7 |
| Th, Mar 27
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, rest-of-12:7, and 12:8 up to a-ho-lo |
Learn Aliya 2, rest-of-12:7 and 12:8 up to vayeit aholo |
| Th, Apr 3
5:40-6pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, rest-of-12:8 and 12:9 |
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| Th, Oct 23 |
7:00am – Tallit & T’filin with Cantor Green
7:15am – Morning Services for Rosh Chodesh
8:30am – Breakfast with Minyannaires
8:55am – Bimah runthrough
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Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Weekday Lech L’Cha Aliya 1 (PDF | MP3) – Gen. 12:1-3
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:25 | 3 – 0:45 |
Weekday Lech L’Cha Aliya 2 (PDF | MP3) – Gen. 12:4-9
| 4 – 0:00 | 5 – 0:33 | 6 – 1:15 | 7 – 1:37 | 8 – 2:04 | 9 – 2:41 |
Weekday Lech L’Cha Aliya 3 (PDF | MP3) – Gen. 12:10-13
| 10 – 0:00 | 11 – 0:19 | 12 – 0:46 | 13 – 1:09 |
Weekday Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)
Havdallah (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha From Ashrei (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Amida (Folder) *CJG is doing Mizmor Shir L’Yom HaShabbat
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Aliya 3 – IN PROGRESS
Aliya 2 (Levi – longest – Noah’s aliya) –
Aliya 1 (or do more davening instead) –
Havdallah –
Shabbat Mincha Torah Processional –
Shabbat Mincha Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Polansky) –
Noah is a Leivi. Since he started learning Sh’lishi already, he will chant that and have the Leivi Aliya.