NATHAN, use this page 3-4 times each week to prepare for your Bar 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 16, 2025
5-5:20pm Cantor’s Office |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Tutoring method
Intro to Webpage Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided) Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
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. Homework this week: Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Tu, Sep. 30
5-5:20pm |
Review 2 Torah blessings
Prepare Torah Trope 1st half |
Learn Torah Trope 1st half using the correct MP3 below (ie., not the MP3 for haftara).
Keep practicing and smoothing out Torah Blessings |
| Th, Oct 9
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Torah Trope 1st half Prepare Torah Trope 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope 2nd half using the correct MP3 below.
Go back and smooth the whole page out from the beginning |
| Tu, Oct 21
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Trope Sheet
Start preparing the Maftir aliya |
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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 HTML Here]
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
[Haftara HTML Here]
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)
Weekday Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)
Havdallah (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha From Ashrei (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Amida (Folder) *CJG is doing Mizmor Shir L’Yom HaShabbat
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Maftir aliya –
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
If needed (delete if not)
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 1 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:09 | 3 – 0:34 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 2 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 3 – 0:00 | 4 – 0:23 | 5 – 0:38 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 3 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 6 – 0:00 | 7 – 0:17 | 8 – 0:34 | 9 – 0:56 | 10 – 1:17 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 4 – All in Num. 28 – (PDF | MP3)
| 11 – 0:00 | 12 – 0:26 | 13 – 0:52 | 14 – 1:13 | 15 – 1:45 |