Maggie, 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 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 |
| We., May 15
5-6pm In Cantor Green’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. |
| Tu, Aug 6
4:50-5:10pm |
Prepare and provide BatM folder
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Tu, Aug 13
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Torah Blessings
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Re-study the Torah blessings, being sure to use the specific homework technique above, specifically, listen at least 15 times in a row before you start singing along — and then sing along ~15 times, and by then it should be smooth.
You have two weeks to do this, but one of those weeks is your family vacation! |
| Tu, Aug 20 | NO LESSON – MAGGIE ON VACATION | |
| Tu, Aug 27
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope 1st half |
Learn Torah Trope sheet, first half, up to first sof pasuk
Use the homework technique at the top of this column. AND, while you’re learning, point to the SYMBOLS of each trope, rather than the Hebrew words that are the names of the tropes. That way, you’ll be used to seeing them in your actual Torah reading, coming soon! |
| Tu, Sep 3
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Torah trope first half
Prepare Torah trope 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope, 2nd half, from Pazeir.
Be able to sing the whole Trope “song” next lesson |
| Tu, Sep 10
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Torah Trope sheet
Prepare Torah – B’ha’alot’cha equivalent of Weekday Aliya 1 |
Learn Aliya 1, 8:1-2. |
| Tu, Sep 17
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Work on last week’s homework, which didn’t happen all the way because travel to Toronto prevented a full homework cycle. Review Torah blessings |
Please finish learning the material from last week. Please use the homework technique in the top box of this column, diligently.
Learn Aliya 1, 8:1-2. |
| Tu, Sep 24
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare Aliya 1, 8:3 |
Learn Aliya 1, 8:3 |
| Tu, Oct 1
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Re-prepare 8:3 (last week you were in TO and got sick) |
Finish learning Aliya 1, 8:3 |
| Tu, Oct 8
4:50-5:10 |
Review Aliya 1 to date
Prepare Aliya, 8:4 Review Torah blessings |
Learn Aliya 1, 8:4 at least up until the dotted line (kamar-eh), but hopefully you can learn (well!) to the end of the aliya and you’ll be done with this part! |
| Tu, Oct 15
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1
Prepare rest of 8:4 Work on smoothing out Aliya 1, all of 8:4 |
1. Learn rest of 8:4 from asher heir-ah
2. Go back and smooth out the beginning of 8:4 Careful to pronounce “Menorah”, not “MEE-norah” |
| Tu, Oct 22
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1 (entire)
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Keep practicing your Aliya 1 to smooth it out. Sing along with the Audio file at 21 times (each of 3 homework sittings of 20 minutes each, you should sing with the audio file 7 times through) over the course of the week. Fix any ‘glitches’ where you’re not quite singing the same thing as in the audio file.
Your goal is to sing it smoothly for Cantor Green next lessons |
| Tu, Oct 29
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1 (entire)
Practice aliya 1 from STA”M side Prepare haftara trope first half |
Learn Haftara trope first half, like a song (PDF | Haftara Trope MP3). Once you get smooth at singing the trope, start pointing your finger at the SYMBOL rather than at the WORK.
Reminder: You must keep Aliya 1 fresh, so please review it a couple of times this week and every week hereafter. |
| Tu, Nov 5
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara trope 1st half
Prepare Haftara trope 2nd half Review Aliya 1 |
Learn Haftara trope, 2nd half |
| Tu, Nov 12
4:50-5:10pm |
MAGGIE WAS SICK – NO LESSON
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| Tu, Nov 19
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara Trope
Prepare Haftara 3:8 |
Learn Haftara 3:8 |
| Tu, Nov 26
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 3:9 up to einayim |
1. learn Haftara 3:9 up to einayim
2. Smooth out Haftara 3:8 |
| Tu, Dec 3 4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date (note: No Blessing before haftara – that’s Max!)
Prepare Haftara 3:9 up to Adonai Tz’va-ot |
1. Use the homework technique above to learn Haftara 3:9 from Hin’ni to Adonai Tz’va-ot (new material)
2. Connect it up with the beginning of 3:9 so that it’s all smooth 3. Go back to 3:8 and make sure your whole haftara so far is smooth and confident. |
| Tu, Dec 10
4:50-5:10pm |
THERE WAS NO LESSON TODAY AS MAGGIE WAS UNDER THE WEATHER. |
Maggie, I missed you today! In case you’re feeling too much pressure, just know that I’m really enjoying our lesson time, and if there’s ever a week where you didn’t have enough time to do the kind of job with your material as I know you’d have wanted, still come to your next lesson. I’ll never be upset with you, but can help guide you to maintain the material we’ve covered already, and maybe even help you along with a little bit of new material that won’t overwhelm you further.
For the winter break, please can you take your binder with you and practice a few times what we’ve learned so far, to keep it as fresh as possible? We’ll pick up with more learning when you get back, in the new year. Best, Cantor Green |
| WINTER BREAK | ||
| Tu, Jan 7
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 3:9 and 3:10 |
Learn rest of 3:9 (from umash-ti) and 3:10
Great, great work on your Hebrew reading too! Beautifully demonstrated! Keep practicing your Torah reading. Keep it fresh |
| Tu, Jan 14
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 4:1 and 4:2 up to zahav kulah) |
Smooth out ending of 3:10 from el tachat gefen.
Learn Haftara 4:1 and 4:2 up to zahav kulah (with good voiced-H at the end!) |
| Tu, Jan 21
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara from 3:8 (no blessing before!) to date
Maggie had COVID. Needs a re-do on the learning from last week.
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Maggie had COVID last week. Try again on las week’s homework
Retake of last week’s homework: Smooth out ending of 3:10 from el tachat gefen. (mostly done already) Learn Haftara 4:1 and 4:2 up to al roshah (with good voiced-H at the end!) |
| Tu, Jan 28
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara, rest-of-4:2 and 4:3 Review Aliya 1 with Torah blessings |
Smooth out your Aliya 1. Listen to and sing along with the audio file a couple of times to remind you of all the notes.
Learn Haftara, rest-of-4:2 and 4:3 |
| Tu, Feb 4
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1 – make sure it’s Torah trope and smooth.
Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara 4:4-5 |
Fix the tune of Tziva Adonai Et Moshe in 4:3. Listen to the audio a million times.
Practice your “hey mapik”s so that the “h” comes after the note is sounded. Learn Haftara 4:4-5 |
| Tu, Feb 11
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Aliya 1
Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara rest-of-4:5 |
Learn Haftara rest-of-4:5
Go back and smooth out from 4:3 to the end of 4:5. |
| Tu, Feb 18 | NO LESSON, CJG on VACA, but please do homework at right ==> | Learn Haftara 4:6 |
| Tu, Feb 25
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara from 3:8
Prepare Haftara 4:6 |
1. Learn Haftara 4:6
2. Go back and sing along with the audio file for the entire haftara so far, to make sure you get un-rusty! |
| Tu, Mar 4
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 4:7 |
Learn Haftara 4:7
Smooth out 4:3-7, especially being careful about va-yomer vs. va-omer vs va-omar; and va-a-an vs. va-ya-an. Work on the trope of verse 4:6. Use the audio file to perfect this. |
| Tu, Mar 11 | NO LESSON – MARCH BREAK | |
| Tu, Mar 18
LESSON CANCELLED – CJG MED LEAVE |
NO LESSON THIS WEEK, but please do homework at right ===> | Learn Blessing 1 after haftara, first half, up to ul-tif-aret. Do some extra listening up front since we didn’t have the luxury of a lesson. |
| Tu, Mar 25
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara to date
Review Blessing 1 after Haftara, first half Prepare Blessing 1 after Haftara, second half |
Touch up last line of haftara
Learn Blessing 1 after Haftara (all of it). Do a lot of listening! |
| Tu, Apr 1
4:50-5:10pm |
Review Haftara last 4 verses
Review Blessing 1 after Haftara Prepare Blessing 2 after haftara, and possibly some of blessing 3 after haftara. |
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Torah/Haftarah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
B’ha’alot’cha Rishon Aliya (a split — 1st weekday third) – (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:12 | 3 – 0:35 | 4 – 1:00 |
Maftir aliya – Max
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3) – Max
Haftara B’ha’alot’cha – Zecharia, Chapters 2, 3, and 4 (PDF | MP3) – Maggie will do 3:8-4:7. Max will do 2:14-3:7.
| 2:14 – 0:00 | 2:15 – 0:17 | 2:16 – 0:49 | 2:17 – 1:07 | 3:1 – 1:20 | 3:2 – 1:47 | 3:3 – 2:20 |
| 3:4 – 2:35 | 3:5 – 3:11 | 3:6 – 3:42 | 3:7 – 3:53 | 3:8 – 4:31 | 3:9 – 5:03 | 3:10 – 5:44 |
| 4:1 – 6:07 | 4:2 – 6:25 | 4:3 – 7:07 | 4:4 – 7:24 | 4:5 – 7:41 | 4:6 – 8:08 | 4:7 – 8:39 |
Blessings after Haftara (PDF | Audio: Blessing 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Shabbat Morning Torah Service (PDFs | MP3s)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Rishon (split – 1st weekday aliya) – DONE (including from STA”M side)
Blessing before Haftara – Max
Haftara 2nd half (from 3:8) – Maggie –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Polansky) – IN PROGRESS
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel