Joey, 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 visits with Cantor Green. For questions, e-mail me at cantor@kehillatbethisrael.com or call/text me at 613-327-3984.
VERY IMPORTANT: KBI B’nei Mitzvah Handbook
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, May 7, 2020
7-7:30pm ZOOM |
Intro to Bat Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage Goal Setting Lesson Time |
STUDY METHOD (always have your printouts/pages in front of you)
1. Listen to the assigned audio files a whole bunch of times, over several days. Let it sink in! 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. 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. Homework for this week:
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| We, May 13
6-6:30pm ZOOM |
Prepare Haftara Trope like a song | FALSE START! BEGIN NEXT WEEK. |
| We, May 20
6pm ZOOM |
Prepare Haftara Trope like a song | Learn Haftara Trope like a song (PDF / MP3), first half (unless you get it perfectly very quickly, then you can go on) |
| Tu, May 26
6pm ZOOM |
Review first half of Haftara Trope
Prepare 2nd half of Haftara Trope |
Learn 2nd half of Haftara Trope like a song (PDF / MP3) from Pazer
Come to the Kadima (grades 5-8) Shavuot/Netflix watch party & discussion on “The Good Place – The Trolley Problem” with Cantor Green and Professor Melissa Frankel (Carleton U). Will be fun and fascinating! Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89753372931?pwd=ak1qNGpINUt1V2NVcndSZkdHN2FuQT09 |
| We, June 3
6pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara trope
Prepare blessing before Haftara |
Learn Blessing before Haftara (PDF / MP3) |
| We, Jun 10
6pm ZOOM |
Review Blessing before Haftara
Prepare Haftara verses 1-2 |
Learn Haftara 11:14 and 11:15 first third (MP3) |
| We, Jun 17
6pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 11:15 (rest of it) and if able, some of 12:1 |
1. Finish learning 11:14 and 11:15 first part (MP3)
2. Learn 11:15 2nd part (MP3) |
| We, June 24
6pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest of 11:15 |
Learn Haftara 11:15 (rest of it) and 12:1 (first part, up to v’kol’chem) (MP3)
Keep practicing everything learned so far, including working on the Baruch Ata in the middle of the Blessing Before Haftara. Watch the youtube video of Agnes Klein doing your Bat Mitzvah Haftara portion this weekend. I’ll add the link here tomorrow evening. Please confirm next week we’re meeting on TUESDAY, 10am, because Wednesday is Canada day. |
| **Tu, Jun 30, 10am | NO LESSON – Joey not available | |
| We, Jul 8
6pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date (up to v’kol’chem)
Prepare rest of 12:1 and part 1 of 12:2 (up to lif-neichem) |
Learn rest of 12:1 and first half of 12:2 (MP3)
Review your blessing before haftara, making sure it stays smooth and confident. |
| We, Jul 15
6pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara up to first half of 12:2
Prepare rest of 12:2 and if time, some of 12:3 |
Learn Haftara 12:2 (second half) and 12:3 (first half) (MP3) |
| Week of Jul 20-24 | NO LESSON – CJG VACATION | Learn Haftara 12:3 (second half) (MP3) |
| We, Jul 29
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:4-5 |
Learn Haftara 12:4-5 (MP3). You have two weeks to learn these verses. |
| Week of Aug 3-7 | NO LESSON – CANTOR GREEN AWAY | Keep learning and practicing Everything above |
| We, Aug 12
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:6 and half of 12:7 |
Smooth out the music notes of “vayom’ru” beginning of verse 4
Learn Haftara 12:6 and first half of 12:7 (MP3) |
| We, Aug 19
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest of 12:7 |
Learn Haftara 12: rest-of-verse-7 (MP3)
Watch BimBam video on Parashat Korach (here) |
| We, Aug 26
5pm BY PHONE (613-852-0262) |
(Joey at Cottage)
Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara 12:8 |
Learn Haftara 12:8 (MP3) |
| We, Sep 2
5pm (613-852-0262) |
Review Haftara to 12:8
Prepare Haftara 12:9 |
Refresh yourself on the melodies of vs 6-8, making sure your etnachtas and zakeif katons are the correct tune. Just because they’re red doesn’t mean they are end-of-phrase melody.
Over the Hiatus (break from lessons), learn Haftara 12:9-10 (MP3). You have 4 weeks, so you can spread it out accordingly – about half a pasuk per week. Very doable. |
| HH HIATUS | ||
| We, Sep 30
5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:11 |
Learn Haftara 12:11 (MP3) |
| We, Oct 7
5pm Zoom |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:12 |
Correct trope at the beginning of 12:3 (Hin’ni anu vi) (MP3 – 0:25)
Learn haftara 12:12 (MP3) |
| We, Oct 14
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:13-14 (for learning over two weeks) |
Learn Haftara 12:13 and first half of 12:14 (up to b’kolo) (MP3) |
| Week of Oct 18-23 | NO LESSON – CANTOR ON VACATION | Learn Haftara 12:14 (2nd half – MP3) |
| We, Oct 28
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:15-16 |
Go back to the start of your Haftarah and find moments where you get momentarily stuck, go back to the homework MP3 for those, listen, and write in some dots/lines/arrows that remind you of the notes you are looking for. Do about 10 lines of this per week.
Learn Haftara 12:15 and if you can manage, 12:16 (MP3) |
| We, Nov 4
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:16 |
Learn Haftara 12:16 and first half of 12:17 up to “ud-u ur-u” (MP3) |
| We, Nov 11
5pm ZOOM |
Review Haftara from v13
Prepare Haftara 12:rest-of-17 |
Fix trope melody of “V’ata Hinei Hamelech” at the start of v13, and “achar adonai eloheichem” at the end of v14. Use the audio files, don’t guess at it!
Learn rest of 12:17 (MP3) |
| We, Nov 18
5pm ZOOM |
Review Entire Haftara for smoothness, find glitches to work on | Spend time fixing/review/annotating the items we circled on your haftara sheets.
Do a couple of runthroughs to date, making sure to point to the words at all times, and slow it down on the circled words to give your brain a chance to catch up! Also, look ahead to the next word/trope when possible. |
| We, Nov 25
5pm ZOOM |
Prepare Haftara 12:18-19
Listen to Joey’s D’var Torah for Vayeitzei |
Learn Haftara 12:18 (MP3) |
| Dec 2 | NO LESSON – CANTOR UNAVAILABLE | Learn Haftara 12:19 (MP3) |
| We, Dec 9
5pm |
Review Haftara from 12:14
Prepare Haftara 12:20 |
Learn Haftara 12:20 (MP3) |
| We, Dec 16
5pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 12:21-22 |
Correct trope at the beginning of 12:3 (Hin’ni anu vi) (MP3 – 0:25)
Learn Haftara 12:21-22 – Last 2 verses! (MP3) – you have 3 weeks to learn this. I recommend taking your BM materials with you and making sure you maintain what you’ve learned so far by practicing it at least once or twice a week. We don’t want to have to re-learn any of it! |
| NO LESSONS | NEXT 2 WEEKS | |
| We, Jan 6
5pm |
Review entire Haftara
Prepare Blessing 1 after Haftara (first half) |
LESSON CANCELLED – Joey not available |
| We, Jan 13
5pm |
Review entire Haftara | Practice haftara again. To avoid the “sticky moments”, try
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| We, Jan 20
5pm |
Review Haftara, making sure to keep finger on place,
Prepare Blessing 1 after Haftara (first half) |
Correct trope at the beginning of 12:3 (Hin’ni anu vi) (MP3 – 0:25)
Learn Blessing 1, first half, after haftara (PDF | MP3) – so up emet vatzedek Next week on SKYPE (jgreen361). Please install and find me there. Send me a note in skype to confirm you found me! |
| NEW SCHEDULE BEGINS
We, Jan 27 4:20-4:40pm SKYPE FROM NOW ON |
Review Blessing 1 after haftara 1st half
Review last 2 pages of haftara Prepare 2nd half of Blessing 1 after haftara |
Spend some more time re-learning the ending musical phrase “lo l’am”. Please listen to those three words 15 times before singing along with the audio file, and singing it on your own. (Dec 16)
Learn 2nd half of blessing 1 after haftara (PDF | MP3) – so, from ne-eman atah hu |
| We, Feb 3
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara last 2 pages
Review Blessing 1 after haftara Prepare Blessings 2 and 3 after Haftara |
JOEY NOT FEELING WELL – NO LESSON |
| We, Feb 10
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara last 2 pages
Review Blessing 1 after haftara Prepare Blessings 2 after Haftara |
Touch up blessing 1 after haftara (MP3)
Learn Blessing 2 after haftara (MP3) |
| We, Feb 17
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Blessing 1 & 2 after Haftara
Prepare Blessing 3 after Haftara, 1st half, up to “yeishev zar“ |
Learn blessing 3 after Haftara up to “yeishev zar” (MP3). Send me a recording by next Wednesday. |
| We, Feb 24 | Happy birthday!
No lesson today |
Continue learning the rest of Blessing 3 after haftara (MP3) |
| We, Mar 3
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara blessings to date
Prepare Blessing 4 after haftara, 1st half |
Learn Blessing 4 after haftara, first half (MP3) |
| We, Mar 10
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Blessings after Haftara
Prepare last half of blessing 4 after haftara Review Haftara first part (depending on time) |
Learn 2nd half of Blessing 4 after haftara (MP3)
Practice going from your last line of the haftara right into the blessings after the Haftara. |
| We, Mar 17
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara from verse 8
Review 4 blessings after Haftara Prepare Torah Blessings |
Learn Blessing before Torah reading (PDF | MP3) |
| We, Mar 24
4:20-4:40 |
Review Torah blessings
Prepare Torah Trope like a song |
Touch up melody of big part of first b’racha before Torah |
| We, Mar 31
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Torah Trope Prepare Maftir first verse or two |
NO LESSON – Joey away for Passover break
Print Maftir Aliya IN COLOUR (PDF) |
| We, Apr 7
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Torah Trope Prepare Maftir first verse or two |
Learn Maftir 18:30 (MP3).
If you have time and the above is WELL learned, you can do a little bit more! |
| We, Apr 14
4:20-4:40pm |
Reminder: Maftir audio is entirely contained in MP3
Review Maftir 18:30 Prepare Maftir 18:31 |
Finish learning v31 (make sure all of 31 is in good shape) (MP3) from the 0’18 second mark |
| We, Apr 21
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare 18:32 |
Learn v32 from the 0’35 mark (MP3) |
| We, Apr 27
4:20-4:40pm |
Review entire Maftir with blessings
Prepare Ein Kamocha |
Fix trope of “b’ohel mo’eid” in maftir, end of v31
Re-print your Torah Service PDF in landscape orientation, and fit-to-page (letter size) Learn 1st 2 printed lines of Ein Kamocha (MP3) |
| We, May 5
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Maftir for homework fix
Review Ein Kamocha to date Prepare next 2 lines of Ein Kamocha |
Sort out “cheilef avodat-chem b’ohel mo-eid” (MP3) |
| We, May 12
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Maftir
Review Ein Kamocha Prepare rest of Ein Kamocha paragraph |
Touch up melody of 4th line of Ein Kamocha (with audio file)
Learn Av Harachamim line (5th & 6th printed lines from the bottom of the paragraph) (MP3) |
| We, May 19 | Review Ein Kamocha to date
Finish learning Ein Kamocha paragraph |
Learn from Ki V’cha to the end of the Ein Kamocha Paragraph (MP3 – from 34 seconds)
Learn Vay’hi Binsoa first printed line (MP3) |
| We, May 26 | NO LESSON – CANTOR AT CONVENTION | Learn Vay’hi Binsoa 2nd and 3rd printed lines (MP3) |
| We, Jun 2 | Review Torah Processional to date
Prepare Vay’hi Binsoa last printed line. THAT WILL BE THE END OF OUR LEARNING NEW MATERIALS! |
Learn last 2 lines of vay’hi binsoa (MP3)
Smooth out Blessings after Haftara. Maybe use this version. Practice everything to date. Particularly, Haftara – circle trouble words and give those some extra practice time this week. |
| Tu, Jun 9
9-10:30am |
FULL RUNTHROUGH ON BIMAH | |
| _____________ | _________________________ |
Haftara Korach (PDF)
Maftir (PDF) (MP3 – entire)
Haftara Trope – DONE
Blessing before Haftara – DONE
Haftara – DONE
Blessings after Haftara – DONE
Torah blessings – DONE
Torah trope (PDF) – DONE
Maftir reading – DONE
Torah processional (up to end of Vay’hi Binsoa) – IN PROGRESS
D’var Torah w/ Rabbi Kenter – DONE
Joey has connected with Rabbi Kenter on D’var Torah and mitzvah project