Harrison, 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 |
| Fr, Aug 30
11:15am-12:00pm 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. |
| Wed, Nov. 6
4:40-5:00pm |
Provide BM folder with URL, printouts
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) using the homework technique above. |
| Wed., Nov 13
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
Learn Torah Trope like a song (using the homework technique above — lots of listening to start with!), and when you are fairly fluent at it, start focusing your eyes on the trope SYMBOLS rather than the names of the tropes so that you start associating their shapes with the notes you’re singing |
| Th, Nov 21
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Trope
Review Torah blessings Prepare Maftir 17:24-25 Prepare Maftir 17:26 for the following week. |
Learn Maftir 17:24-25 |
| Th, Nov 28 | NO LESSON, CJG ON VACA, but please do homework at right ===> | Learn Maftir 17:26 |
| Th, Dec 5
5-5:20pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir 17:27 Prepare reading from STA”M side |
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Torah/Haftara Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope | Haftara Trope)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Maftir Lech L’Cha – All in Gen. Ch 17 (PDF | MP3)
| 24 – 0:00 | 25 – 0:13 | 26 – 0:31 | 27 – 0:45 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Lech L’Cha (PDF | MP3) – all in Isaiah
| 40:27 – 0:00 | 28 – 0:28 | 29 – 0:58 | 30 – 1:12 | 31 – 1:26 | 41:1 – 1:54 | 2 – 2:18 |
| 3 – 2:49 | 4 – 3:02 | 5 – 3:25 | 6 – 3:42 | 7 – 3:56 | 8 – 4:25 | 9 – 4:43 |
| 10 – 5:09 | 11 – 5:35 | 12 – 5:59 | 13 – 6:22 | 14 – 6:45 | 15 – 7:09 | 16 – 7:35 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Torah Service (PDF)
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Maftir aliya –
Blessing before Haftara
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi ???) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel