Liv, 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 |
| Tu, Sep 2, 2025
5:15-6pm 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. |
| Th, Oct 23
5:40-6pm |
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)
Learn Torah Trope Sheet 1st half Use the homework technique in the top cell of this column |
| **We, Oct 29
**5:20-5:40pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope Sheet 2nd half Prepare Maftir 11:29 |
Learn Torah Trope Sheet 2nd half
Learn Maftir 11:29 |
| Th, Nov 6
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah Trope sheet
Review Maftir to date Prepare Maftir 11:30 and 11:31 up to kalato |
In Maftir 11:29, sort out trope of Avi-milka such that the ka note returns to the note you just sang on mil.
Learn Maftir 11:30 and 11:31 up to kalato. HOWEVER, if you can, finish 11:31. |
| Th, Nov. 13
5:40-6pm |
Review Maftir to date, paying attention to Avi-milka
Prepare maftir rest-of-11:31. If Liv got further, finish learning maftir |
Good job learning all of 11:31!
Learn Maftir 11:32 Learn Ein Kamocha lines 1-3 in the Hebrew |
| Th, Nov 20
5:40-6pm |
Review maftir (entire)
Review Ein Kamocha first 3 lines Prepare rest-of-Ein Kamocha |
Learn rest-of-Ein Kamocha
In the first half of ein Kamocha, smooth out the line “Adonai Melech, Adonai Malach” |
| Th, Nov 27
5:40-6pm |
Review Ein Kamocha
Prepare Haftara Trope next… |
Re: “Adonai Melech, Adonai Malach”, practice those 4 words a few more times, making sure that “melech” and “lach” (of malach) both go DOWN.
Learn Haftara Trope sheet, concentrating more on the trope symbols than on the words (which are the names of the trope) |
| Th, Dec 4
5:40-6pm |
Review Maftir
Review Ein Kamocha Review Haftara Trope Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Spend 10-15 minutes repeating and repeating with the audio file “Adonai Melech Adonai Malach Adonai Yimloch”
Finish learning Haftara trope, 2nd half (from pazeir to the end) Learn first half of Blessing before the Haftara (up be-e-met) |
| Th, Dec 11
5:40-6pm |
Review Ein Kamocha
Review Haftara trope Review Blessing before Haftara, 1st half Prepare Blessing before Haftara 2nd half Prepare Haftara 54:1 |
Learn before Haftara 2nd half
Learn Haftara 54:1 |
| Th, Dec 18
5:40-6pm CJG CANCELED B/C OF CHANUKAH HOCKEY GAME |
Review Ein Kamocha
Review Blessing before Haftara Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara 54:2 and 54:3 up to tif-rotzi |
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| WINTER BREAK | ||
| Th, Jan 8, 2026
5:40-6pm |
Re-discover where we are in the learning
Review Ein Kamocha Review Blessing before Haftara Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara 54:4 |
Learn Haftara 54:4
Learn Vay’hi Binsoa Ha’aron up to oy’vecha |
| Th, Jan 15
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare haftara 54:5 and 54:6 up to Adonai Review Torah service to date Prepare Vay’hi Binsoa rest of line 2 (up to mipanecha) |
Learn Haftara 54:5 and 54:6 up to Adonai
Learn Vay’hi Binsoah, rest of line 2, up to mipanecha |
| Th, Jan 22
5:40-6pm |
Review Haftara to date with blessing before it
Prepare Haftara rest-of-54:6 and 54:7-8 Review Torah processional to date Prepare rest of Vay’hi Binsoa – Liv already knows it |
Learn Haftara rest-of-54:6 and 54:7-8
In Vay’hi Binsoa, smooth out “mi-rushalayim” and “bikdushato“ |
| Th, Jan 29
5:40-6pm |
Review Vay’hi Binsoa
Review Haftara to date Prepare Haftara 54:9 and 54:10 up to t’mutena |
Learn Haftara 54:9-10. If 10 proves too much, just go up to t’mutena
Practice Maftir from RIGHT-HAND side |
| Th, Feb 5
5:40-6pm ZOOM (CJG ill) |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Blessing 1 after haftara, first half Review Torah reading from RIGHT-HAND side |
Learn Blessing 1 after haftara – 1st half
Continue practicing haftara every week |
| Th, Feb 12
5:40-6pm |
Review last page of Haftara
Review Blessing 1 after haftara 1st half Prepare Blessing 1 after haftara 2nd half |
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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 Noach – All in Gen. Chapter 11 (PDF | MP3)
| 29 – 0:00 | 30 – 0:24 | 31 – 0:34 | 32 – 1:12 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Noach (Shorter, Sefardi option in blue, below) – All in Isaiah Ch. 54 (PDF | MP3)
| 54:1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:21 | 3 – 0:45 | 4 – 1:02 | 5 – 1:26 | 6 – 1:47 | 7 – 2:11 | 8 – 2:23 |
| 9 -2:45 | 10 – 3:13 | 11 – 3:42 | 12 – 4:01 | 13 – 4:17 | 14 – 4:30 | 15 – 4:49 | 16 – 5:04 |
| 17 – 5:31 | 55:1 – 6:07 | 2 -6:39 | 3 – 7:02 | 4 – 7:25 | 5 -7:39 |
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, incl. STA”M
Haftara Trope – DONE
Blessing before Haftara – DONE
Haftara – DONE
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional – IN PROGRESS
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; etc.
This is Allan’s BM parasha! Allan has done aliyot 5, 7
Liv can take on more Torah reading.
Other family members can take aliyot and lead services as well. Could all be covered!