Hannah Rubin’s Personalized Bat Mitzvah Page

Hannah, 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).

Bat Mitzvah Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026
Parashat BAMIDBAR – MACHAR CHODESH (M”Ch Sivan)
29 Iyyar, 5786

Tutoring Schedule – Starting May 14, 2025: Wednesdays, 4:40-5:00pm.

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
Th, Sep 5, 2024

6:30-7:15pm

Cantor’s Office

Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process

Date Selection

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.

We, May 14, 2025

4:40-5pm

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)

You have two weeks to do this as Cantor Green will be away all of next week.

We, May 21 NO LESSON – CANTOR AWAY AT CA CONFERENCE Keep learning your Torah blessings!
We, May 28

4:40-5pm

Review Torah Blessings

Prepare Torah Trope Sheet

Smooth out the blessing after Torah reading

Learn Torah Trope (like a song, but during your last homework sitting of the week, focus on the symbols, not the words (which are the names of the trope). The audio file is in the downloads section below this table. Make sure you use the TORAH trope file, not the Haftara file.

We, Jun 4

4:40-5pm

Review Torah blessings

Review Torah Trope 1st half

Prepare Torah Trope 2nd half

1. Learn Torah Trope 2nd half, first!

2. Smooth out Torah Trope 1st half, second!

Concentrate more on the symbols themselves than on the words on the page — that will help you recognize the notes we’ll be singing when you see those symbols on your actual Torah reading.

We, June 11

4:40-5pm

Review Torah Trope

Prepare Maftir 4:17-18

Learn Maftir 4:17-18
We, Jun 18

4:40-5:00pm

Review Maftir to date

4:19

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

Torah / Haftarah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)

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

Bamidbar Maftir Aliya (PDF | MP3), all in Num. Ch4

17 – 0:00 18 – 0:14 19 – 0:30 20 – 1:08

Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)

Haftara Machar Chodesh (PDF | MP3), all in Hosea Ch. 2

Haftara Shabbat Machar Chodesh (Erev Rosh Chodesh) – All in 1 Samuel, Chapter 20 (PDF | MP3)

18 – 0:00 19 – 0:17 20 – 0:44 21 – 0:59 22 – 1:44 23 – 2:05 24 – 2:27
25 – 2:48 26 – 3:25 27 – 3:51 28 – 4:29 29 – 4:48 30 – 5:36 31 – 6:10
32 – 6:43 33 – 7:02 34 – 7:30 35 – 7:58 36 – 8:17 37 – 8:45 38 – 9:13
39 – 9:40 40 – 9:56 41 – 10:16 42 – 10:59

Blessings after Haftara, KBI-style (PDF | MP3)

#1, 1st half – 0:00 #1, 2nd half – 0:31 #2 – 1:11 #3 – 1:38 #4, 1st half – 2:37 #4, 2nd half – 3:06

Shabbat Morning Torah Service (PDFs | MP3s)

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE

Torah Trope – IN PROGRESS

Maftir aliya –

Haftara Trope –

Blessing before Haftara

Haftara –

Blessings after Haftara –

Torah Processional –

Torah Recessional –

D’var Torah –

Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel

 

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