ELOISE, 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, Aug 21, 2025
4:50-5:40pm 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. |
| Th, Nov 6
5:20-5:40pm |
Provide Bat Mitzvah materials folder
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Th, Nov 13
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
Learn Haftara Trope sheet using the homework technique above.
Please focus more on the symbols of each trope rather than the words on the trope sheet (which are the names of each trope, BTW), because it’s those “shapes” and colours that you’ll see in your Torah reading. |
| Th, Nov 20
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Torah Trope Sheet
Prepare Maftir 17:24-25 |
Learn Maftir 17:24-25 |
| Th, Nov 27
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Maftir to date, with Torah blessings
Prepare Maftir 17:26-27 |
1. Learn Maftir 17:26-27
2. Smooth out the following:
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| Th, Dec 4
5:20-5:40pm |
Review maftir
Prepare Haftara Trope |
Learn Haftara trope like a song. Look much more at the symbols than the words (the names of the tropes). |
| Th, Dec 11
5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara trope
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)
Maftir Lech L’Cha – All in Gen. Ch 17 (PDF | MP3)
| 24 – 0:00 | 25 – 0:13 | 26 – 0:31 | 27 – 0:45 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Lech L’Cha (PDF | MP3) – all in Isaiah
| 40:27 – 0:00 | 28 – 0:28 | 29 – 0:58 | 30 – 1:12 | 31 – 1:26 | 41:1 – 1:54 | 2 – 2:18 |
| 3 – 2:49 | 4 – 3:02 | 5 – 3:25 | 6 – 3:42 | 7 – 3:56 | 8 – 4:25 | 9 – 4:43 |
| 10 – 5:09 | 11 – 5:35 | 12 – 5:59 | 13 – 6:22 | 14 – 6:45 | 15 – 7:09 | 16 – 7:35 |
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 – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Maftir aliya – DONE
Haftara Trope –
Blessing before Haftara
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Polansky) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel