Oren Potechin’s Personalized Bar Mitzvah Page

OREN, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your Bar/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).

Bar Mitzvah Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026
PARASHAT NASSO
14 Sivvan, 5786

Tutoring Schedule – Starting June 18: Wednesdays, 5:40-6:00pm in Cantor Green’s office @ KBI.

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
We, Jun 11, 2025

5:15-5:55pm

Cantor’s Office

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. 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, Jun 18

5:20-5:40pm

Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided)

Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading

Prepare Torah Trope

Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)

Learn Torah Trope “like a song” from the audio file (in the downloads section, below this table), but focus on the symbols and their colours, rather than on the words that are the names of the trope symbols, so that we can more easily apply the symbols to the words in your actual Torah reading.

We, Jun 25 Review Torah Blessings

Review Torah Trope

NO NEW HOMEWORK — ENJOY CAMP!
Aug. 7 & 14 & 21 NO LESSONS – CJG VACA/RABBINICAL SCHOOL. But please try to do the homework at right ===> Review Torah Trope so that the page is smooth.

Learn Maftir 7:87 and 7:88 — this is 2 long p’sukim, so spread it out. YOU HAVE THREE WEEKS TO DO THIS as our next lesson is Th, Aug. 21.

We, Aug 27

5:20-5:40pm

Review Torah Trope Sheet

Prepare maftir 7:87 and 7:88 up to parim

Learn maftir 7:87 and 7:88 up to parim
We, Sep 3

5:40-6:00pm

Review Maftir to date with blessings

Note – Oren has the time and ability and can do more each week (after care hours!). He has the ability to do entire Torah reading. Pick up the pace, Cantor Green! 🙂

Prepare Maftir rest-of-7:88 and 7:89 (ie., rest of maftir)

Learn rest-of-7:88 and 7:89
We, Sep 10

5:40-6:00pm

NO LESSON – OREN NOT AVAILABLE

Review entire Maftir

Prepare Haftara Trope

Learn Haftara Trope
We, Sep 17

5:40-6:00pm

Review entire Maftir

Prepare Haftara Trope

Prepare Blessing before Haftara

Learn Haftara Trope

Learn Blessing before Haftara

You have two weeks to do these. No lesson next week (Rosh Hashana)

CJG will coordinate you with another teacher during the rest of the HHs season.

We, Sep 24 NO LESSON (RH)
Th, Oct 16

5:15-5:35

Review Haftara Trope

Review Blessing before Haftara

Review Maftir from STA”M side

Prepare Haftara 13:2-4 (and 13:5)

Learn Haftara 13:2-4 and if you can, some or all of 13:5
We, Oct 22

5:40-6pm

Review Haftara to date with Blessing before haftara

Prepare Haftara 13:6-7 (this is a long segment, but you can do it!)

Learn Haftara 13:6-10 (5 big verses!)
We, Oct 29

5:40-6pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 13:11-15

Learn Haftara 13:11-15
We, Nov 5

5:40-6pm

Review Haftara to date

Prepare Haftara 13:16-20

Learn Haftara 13:16-20 this week.

No lesson next week – CJG away at Rabbi School

We, Nov 12 NO LESSON, but do go on to the end of the Haftara Learn Haftara 13:21-25
We, Nov 19

5:40-6pm

Review last 2 pages

Prepare Blessings after Haftara

Learn Blessings 1 and 2 after haftara

Go further if you can and want to!

We, Nov 26

5:40-6pm

Review Blessings after Haftara to date

Prepare the remaining blessings after haftara

Review Maftir

Learn Blessings 3 and 4 after Haftara
We, Dec 3

5:40-6pm

NO LESSON – OREN AWAY Learn Aliya 7, 7:72-77 (or as much of that as you can)
We, DEC 10

5:40-6pm

Review Blessings after haftara

Review Aliya 7 to date

Prepare Aliya 7, 7:78-83

Keep learning Aliya 7!
We, Dec 17

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 7 to date

Prepare Aliya 6

Learn rest-of-Aliya 7

Figure out Aliya 6!

Dec 19-29 NO LESSONS – WINTER BREAK Keep working on the above
Jan 5-8 NO LESSON (CJG Conference) Work on Aliya 5, bits that are the same formula as 6 and 7
We, Jan 14

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 6 and 7

Prepare top of Aliya 5

Smooth out first half of Aliya 7

Note, Naso Shabbat Aliya 5 audio has been added below.

We, Jan 21

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 7 to date Work on No-Trope side for aliya 7 (especially ‘missing’ bits)

Learn Chamishi aliya, 7:1-5

We, Jan 28

5:40-6pm

Review Chamishi aliya, 7:1-5

Prepare Chamishi aliya 7:6-9

Review Aliyot 6 and 7 from the STA”M side

Learn Chamishi aliya 7:6-9

Smooth out the trope in Aliya 7 from verse 84

We, Feb 4

5:40-6pm

ZOOM (both Oren and CJG sick)

Review Chamishi to date

Prepare Chamishi 7:10-12 (rest you already know!)

Review Aliya 7 from verse 84

Learn Chamishi 7:10-11, and 12 if time allows.
We, Feb 11

5:40-6pm

Review Chamishi to date (which leads you into the pattern of gifts you already know)

Review Aliya 7 from verse 84

Prepare Ein Kamocha

Learn Ein Kamocha (p139 in the packet)
We, Feb 18

5:40-6pm

Review Torah Processional to date

Prepare Vay’hi Binsoa and some of B’rich Sh’meih/Bei Ana Racheitz

Prepare Aliya 1, 4:21-26

Learn Aliya 1, 4:21-26
We, Mar 4

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 1 to date

Prepare rest of Aliya 1 — AMAZING SIGHT-READING!!

Provide Aliya 3 (10 p’sukim)

Learn rest of Aliya 1 – you have two weeks to do that.

If you run out of material, start sight-reading aliya 3 (printout provided, but no audio file as of yet)

We, Mar 11 NO LESSON – CJG AT CONFERENCE. Continue learning Aliya 1 and Aliya 3.
We, Mar 18

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 1

Review Aliya 2

Work on moving Aliyot 1, 2, and 5 to the lefthand side.
We, Mar 25

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 1 from STA”M side. Work on moving Aliyot 2 and 5 to the lefthand side.

Work on Aliya 4

Apr 1 & 8 NO LESSONS – PASSOVER Continue above homework and reviewing all
We, Apr 15

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 4

Review aliyot 2 & 5 from STA”M

Keep learning Aliya 4, new material from verse 18.
We, Apr 22

5:40-6pm

ZOOM TODAY

Review Aliya 4

Review Haftara with blessing before (no time for blessings after)

Keep working on Aliya 4
We, Apr 29

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 4 to date

Review Blessings after haftara

Keep learning Aliya 4 on your planned track.
We, May 6

5:40-6pm

Review Aliya 4 to date

 

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Downloads (click to open, right-click to save to your computer)

Torah / Haftarah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)

Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 1 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll) – all in Ch 4.

Note, to sing this as 3 weekday aliyot, in addition to verse 37 of the Shabbat Aliya 1 reading, also end verses 24 and 28 with Sof-Aliya trope rather than regular sof-Pasuk. (MP3)

21 – 0:00 22 – 0:11 23 – 0:26 24 – 0:52 25 – 1:03 26 – 1:29 27 – 2:06 28 – 2:35 29 – 2:57
30 – 3:08 31 – 3:32 32 – 3:51 33 – 4:20 34 – 4:41 35 – 4:59 36 – 5:19 37 – 5:34

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 2 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll) – all in Ch 4.

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 3 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll)

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 4 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll)

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 5 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll)

7:1 – 0:00 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 –
10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 –
19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 –
28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 –
37 – 38 – 39 – 40 – 41 –

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 6 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll) – Num. 7:42-71

7:42 – 43 – 44 – 45 – 46 – 47 – 48 – 49 – 50 – 51 –
52 – 53 – 54 – 55 – 56 – 57 – 58 – 59 – 60 – 61 –
62 – 63 – 64 – 65 – 66 – 67 – 68 – 69 – 70 – 71 –

Nasso Shabbat Aliya 7 (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll) – Num. 7:72-89

72 – 0:00 73 – 0:18 74 – 0:58 75 – 1:10 76 – 1:28 77 – 1:36
78 – 2:05 79 – 2:20 80 – 2:57 81 – 3:07 82 – 3:23 83 – 3:30
84 – 3:57 85 – 4:32 86 – 4:58 87 – 5:24 88 – 5:58 89 – 6:36

Maftir Naso (PDF | MP3 | Sanctuary Scroll) – All in Num., Ch 7

87 – 0:00 88 – 0:29 89 – 1:08

Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)

Haftara Nasso – All in Judges Ch. 13 (PDF | MP3)

2 – 0:00 3 – 0:23 4 – 0:47 5 – 1:04 6 – 1:44 7 – 2:26 8 – 3:03 9 – 3:37
10 – 4:09 11 – 4:34 12 – 5:04 13 – 5:21 14 – 5:39 15 – 6:08 16 – 6:28 17 – 7:05
18 – 7:23 19 – 7:39 20 – 8:04 21 – 8:34 22 – 8:57 23 – 9:12 24 – 9:47 25 – 10:07

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)

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE

Torah Trope – DONE

Maftir aliya – DONE incl. STA”M

Haftara Trope – DONE

Blessing before Haftara – DONE

Haftara – DONE

Blessings after Haftara – DONE

Nasso Aliya 7 – DONE

Torah Processional – ON HOLD

Torah Recessional – ON HOLD

Nasi Gift Aliyot (5 – DONE & 6 – DONE)

Aliya 1 – DONE

Aliya 3 –

Aliya 2 – DONE

Aliya 4 (48 p’sukim) – IN PROGRESS

D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project (with Sue Potechin) –

Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel

 

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