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).
| 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
Prepare Maftir 4:19 up to kodesh hakodashim |
1. Learn Maftir 4:19 up to kodesh hakodashim
2. THEN go back and polish up 4:17-18 from last week. |
| We, Jun 25
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Maftir to date
Prepare maftir, rest-of-4:19 THIS IS LAST LESSON BEFORE CAMP. |
If you have time, learn Maftir rest-of-4:19.
Take your materials with you, and MAINTAIN what you’ve learned so far, once a week! |
| SUMMER BREAK | CAMP | |
| We, July 30
4:40-5pm |
Review maftir to date with blessings
Prepare Maftir 4:20 (end) Prepare Haftara Trope |
Smooth out second half of 4:19 (partic. v’samu otam) and 4:20 (the newest part), partic. the sof-aliya trope of k’vala et hakodesh.
Learn Haftara trope like a song, and concentrate on the symbols themselves rather than the printed names of the Trope. You have three weeks to do this! |
| NO LESSONS NEXT TWO WEEKS – CJG UNAVAILABLE | Keep learning as above! | |
| **Fr, Aug 15
9:45-10:20am |
Review Maftir
Review Haftara Trope 1st half Prepare Haftara Trope 2nd half Prepare Blessing blessing before the haftara. |
Learn Haftara trope 2nd half
If you can, I strongly encourage you to learn the Blessing before the Haftara (resources below, in the downloads section. |
| We, Aug 20
4:40-5pm |
Review Haftara Trope (entire)
Review (if possible) Blessing before Haftara Prepare Haftara 20:18-19 |
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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)
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)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Maftir aliya – DONE (including STA”M side)
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