Elan Papadopoulos’s Personalized Bar Mitzvah Page

Elan, 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 Cantor Green 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.

Bar Mitzvah Date:
SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND, 2025, 10:00am
MODEL ROSH CHODESH TAMMUZ
26 Sivan, 5785

Tutoring Schedule – Starting Nov. 10. 2024: Sundays, 11:45am-12:05pm @ SJCC
If Zoom is needed, the link will be:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4919062064?pwd=d3I0RXZtdzRMRUJYaXRlaTR3b0dJQT09

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
Su, Nov 10

11:50am-12:10pm

Group introduction @ SJCC

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.

Sun., Nov 17

12:00pm-12:20pm

Provide folder with Blessings inside and URL on the front

Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading

Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Sun, Nov 24, Dec 1

NO LESSONS

CANTOR UNAVAILABLE/AWAY
Sun, Dec 8

11:45am-12:05pm

Review Torah Blessings

Prepare Torah Trope sheet

Learn Torah Trope Sheet first half, up to first sof pasuk.  I suggest a LOT of listening before you start singing along, so it really goes in.

I’ve updated your links, but you may still see unexpected error messages. You should still see a “Download” button or link in the top left of the pages with the error. Save those to a well-known place on your computer (like a folder on your desktop) and you should be able to open that.

Sun, Dec 15

11:45am-12:05pm

Review Torah Trope sheet, first half

Prepare Torah trope sheet, second half

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

Torah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)

Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)

Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 1 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3) – Elan

1 – 0:00 2 – 0:09 3 – 0:34

Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 2 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3) – TBC Yael

3 – 0:00 4 – 0:23 5 – 0:38

Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 3 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3) – TBC Yael

6 – 0:00 7 – 0:17 8 – 0:34 9 – 0:56 10 – 1:17

Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 4 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3) – Elan

11 – 0:00 12 – 0:26 13 – 0:52 14 – 1:13 15 – 1:45

Weekday Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)

 

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE

Torah Trope –

Aliya 1

Aliya 4

TBC Weekday Torah Processional (Elan & Yael)

D’var Torah (with Jodi Green)

 

Notes