Miri, 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
Parents, click here to confirm you’ve read and understood the entire handbook (required).
Zoom if needed: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4919062064?pwd=d3I0RXZtdzRMRUJYaXRlaTR3b0dJQT09
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Th, Jan 23, 2025
In person @ KBI |
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. Don’t sing along yet! 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 15 times through 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 28
4:20-4:40pm ZOOM Check-in |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Maftir (sorted out correct text!) |
Work on (correct) Maftir aliya with Zaidah. Make sure he knows of your bat mitzvah page (ie., this page), which has your recording made by me on it.
Smooth out blessing after Torah reading |
| We, Jun 4
4:20-4:40pm ZOOM |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Maftir
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Learn Maftir 27:32 and 27:33 up to v’lo y’mirenu. Use the audio from Zaidah, or you can use Cantor Green’s below if there is any problem with Zaidah’s recording. |
| We, June 18
4:20-4:40pm ZOOM |
Review Maftir to date | Print and use this new PDF of your maftir (with transliterations), and follow the above homework technique to properly learn the material from last week, specifically: Maftir 27:32 and 27:33 up to v’lo y’mirenu. |
| We, June 25
4:20-4:40pm ZOOM (link above this table) |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Maftir, rest-of-27:33 |
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| We, Sep 3
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare Ein Kamocha |
Smooth out the maftir so that it matches the audio file below.
Learn Ein Kamocha, first two PRINTED lines in the English side (ie., up to kol olamim). |
| We, Sep 10
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Maftir
Review Ein Kamocha to date Prepare rest of 2nd line on the Hebrew side and Adonai Melech…va-ed |
Learn Ein Kamocha next two printed lines on the English side, ie., up to l’olam va-ed.
Then go back and sing through this prayer from the beginning Keep practicing your maftir aliya. |
| NEW!
Tu, Sep 16 5:40-6pm |
Review Maftir
Prepare Haftara Trope |
Remember to bring your folder to each session.
Learn Haftara trope FIRST HALF this week, and SECOND HALF next week. |
| Tu, Sept 23 | NO LESSON – ROSH HASHANAH | Remember to keep learning the Haftara Trope
And keep the maftir smooth and confident. Try it from the LEFTHAND side! |
| Tu, Sept 30
5:40-6pm |
Review the entire Haftara Trope Sheet
Prepare Blessing before Haftara If time, review Maftir |
Learn Blessing before Haftara |
| Th, Oct 9
5:40-6:00pm |
Review Blessing before Haftara
Prepare Haftara 16:19 up to v’yom’ru |
Spend another week on Blessing before Haftara
Learn Haftara 16:19 up to v’yom’ru You have about two weeks to do those. Next Lesson Oct. 21 |
| Tu, Oct 21
5:40-6pm |
Review Blessing before the Haftara
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 16:19 |
Learn Haftara 16:19 (all of that verse this time)
In the blessing before the haftara, please smooth out the “Baruch Ata…. Adonai” in the middle of the prayer. Listen a few more times than usual to fine-tune the melody (trope) on those words. Each week, when you do your cumulative runthrough of the haftara, please include the blessing before the haftara each time. |
| Tu, Oct 28
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date (with blessing)
Prepare Haftara 16:20 |
Re-study Haftara 16:19, and learn 16:20, this time using the transliteration. Make those two p’sukim really smooth and confident.
Review blessing before the haftara using the audio file to smooth out some of the words’ tropes/melodies (ie., uv-moshe avdo). |
| Tu, Nov 4
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date with the blessing.
Prepare Haftara 16:21 and 17:1 up to libam |
Learn Haftara 16:21 and 17:1 up to libam
You have two weeks to do this (do one of these verses each week) because Cantor Green is away at Rabbi Camp next week. |
| Tu, Nov 11 | NO LESSON – CJG at Rabbi Camp | Continue homework from last week, and review everything learned so far. |
| Tu, Nov 18
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-17:1, and 17:2 up to ra-anan |
Learn Haftara rest-of-17:1 and 17:2 up to ra-anan.
Smooth out the first verses of the haftara, by SLOWING DOWN and focusing on the English transliterations. Take your time. Esp., for example: ha-ya-aseh lo. |
| Tu, Nov 25
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara rest-of-17:2 and 17:3 |
Learn Haftara rest-of-17:2 and 17:3
Keep smoothing out the earlier verses. Stop and fix anything that isn’t quite right or confident. |
| Tu, Dec 2 | NO LESSON – MIRI ON SKI TRIP | |
| Tu, Dec 9
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Work on 17:1-3, smoothing out pronunciation and melody. |
Spend this week smoothing out haftara 17:1-3, really relying on the audio file for repetition of the correct pronunciation and trope music. On words like “cheil’cha chol otz’rotecha” and “bamotecha”, make sure to listen a few extra times to the audio file’s rendition, and spend some extra time listening to those and repeating-after-“me”. |
| Tu, Dec 16
**5:20-5:40pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 17:4-5 |
Learn Haftara 17:4-5 |
| WINTER BREAK | NO LESSONS, but please do homework at right ==> | Keep learning Haftara 17:4-5
Keep smoothing out and practicing haftara 17:1-3 |
| Tu, Jan 6 | NO LESSON – CJG CONFERENCE | Please keep learning 17:4-5
Review entire Haftara and fix anything that isn’t quite right or confident. |
| Tu, Jan 13
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 17:6 |
Learn Haftara 17:6. Spend extra time smoothing out “cha-rey-rim bamid-bar”
Spend some time smoothing out 17:4 By next lesson, 17 verses 4, 5, and 6 should all be very smooth and confident. |
| Tu, Jan 20
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 17:7 (and maybe some of 8) |
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Torah/Haftarah Trope Sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Maftir B’chukotai (PDF | PDF with transliteration | MP3) – All in Lev., Ch 27
| 32 – 0:00 | 33 – 0:19 | 34 – 0:47 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara B’chukotai (PDF | MP3) – Jeremiah, Chapters 16 & 17
| 16:19 – 0:00 | 20 – 0:36 | 21 – 0:49 | 17:1 – 1:13 | 2 – 1:41 | 3 – 2:01 | 4 – 2:22 |
| 5 – 3:01 | 6 – 3:29 | 7 – 3:56 | 8 – 4:12 | 9 – 4:59 | 10 – 5:14 | 11 – 5:38 |
| 12 – 6:05 | 13 – 6:20 | 14 – 6:48 |
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 – IN PROGRESS
Haftara Trope – IN PROGRESS
Blessing before Haftara –
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Rabbi Polansky) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel
Zaidah will teach Miri, Cantor Green will do monthly check-ins
Other family members reading Torah?