Noah Levine’s Personalized Bar Mitzvah Page

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).

Bar Mitzvah Date: SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCT 25, 2025, 4:30pm
PARASHAH: Weekday Lech L’Cha
3 Cheshvan, 5786

Tutoring Schedule – Starting Nov 7, 2024: Thursdays, 5:40-6:00pm in Cantor Green’s office.

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

_____________ ____________________

Downloads (click to open, right-click to save to your computer)

Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope)

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

Havdallah (Folder)

Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)

Shabbat Mincha From Ashrei (Folder)

Shabbat Mincha Amida (Folder) *CJG is doing Mizmor Shir L’Yom HaShabbat

 

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading –

Aliya 3

Aliya 1

Aliya 2 (longest)

Havdallah

Shabbat Mincha Torah Processional –

Shabbat Mincha Torah Recessional –

D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Polansky) –

Other items as time allows: Shabbat Mincha, Ma’ariv for Motza’ei Shabbat

 

Notes