ETHAN, 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 |
| Tu, June 24, 2025
6:30-7:15pm Cantor’s Office |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage Goal Setting |
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, June 17
4:10-4:30pm |
Review already-known Torah blessings, talk about choreography of them.
Prepare Torah Trope |
Learn Torah Trope. See below, in the downloads section, or:
Torah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3) |
| Tu, June 24
4:10-4:30pm |
Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided)
Review Torah Blessings Review Torah Trope Prepare Maftir 28:37-38 |
Learn Maftir 28:37-38 using the links for “maftir” in the downloads section below. Use the homework technique above, and try to emulate exactly what you hear as the notes for your maftir! |
| We, July 2
5:40-6pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Haftara Trope Provide Aliya 5 (9 p’sukim) |
Ethan learned the entire maftir (experienced a bit because it’s the 3rd paragraph of the Sh’ma), including from the STA”M side.
Keep it fresh, review it every week, and as it becomes more ingrained, every second week, until your bar mitzvah If you can, learn Aliya 5 (or some of it) on your own during summer break (Ethan requested!). The Aliya 5 materials are below in the downloads section |
| Summer Break | ||
| Tu, Aug. 5
4:10-4:30pm |
Review Maftir from STA”M side
Review Aliya 5 to date Review Haftara Trope sheet Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
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Torah / Haftarah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Sh’lach L’cha Aliya 5 – All in Num. 15 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll Photo)
| 8 – 0:00 | 9 – 0:16 | 10 – 0:35 | 11 – 0:50 | 12 – 1:11 |
| 13 – 1:24 | 14 – 1:41 | 15 – 2:11 | 16 – 2:38 |
Maftir Sh’lach L’cha – All in Num. 15 (PDF | MP3)
| 37 – 0:00 | 38 – 0:14 | 39 – 0:40 | 40 – 1:14 | 41 – 1:29 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftarah Sh’lach L’cha – All in Joshua Ch 2 (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:43 | 3 – 1:08 | 4 – 1:39 | 5 – 2:08 | 6 – 2:40 |
| 7 – 2:59 | 8 – 3:31 | 9 – 3:44 | 10 – 4:16 | 11 – 5:01 | 12 – 5:32 |
| 13 – 6:00 | 14 – 6:25 | 15 – 7:00 | 16 – 7:21 | 17 – 7:54 | 18 – 8:14 |
| 19 – 8:58 | 20 – 9:38 | 21 – 9:55 | 22 – 10:16 | 23 – 10:45 | 24 – 11:12 |
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)
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Torah Trope – DONE
Maftir aliya – DONE, including STA”M
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