JONAH, 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 Cantor Green at cantor@kehillatbethisrael.com or call/text 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, Nov 4, 2025
6:30-7:15pm Cantor’s Office |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage Goal Setting Teacher / Lesson Day & 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 Dec 11
4:40-5pm |
Prepare BM Materials folder
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Smooth out Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Learn Torah Trope – focus on the symbols. |
| Th, Dec 18
4:40-5pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Torah Trope |
JONAH DIDN’T MAKE IT TO HIS LESSON TODAY. See if you can do this new homework anyway. Our next lesson is either on Dec. 30 on Zoom (TBD) or Thursday, Jan 15.
Learn Aliya 1, 13:1-2. To do this, use the PDF (or the printout in your folder if I gave it to you already) of Aliya 1, and the audio file from the beginning. Use the homework technique above. You have two weeks to do this, so break it up to your liking. If this amount is overwhelming, just do what you can so that you’re aiming for QUALITY, not quantity. |
| Tu, Dec. 30???
Time??? |
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| Th, Jan. 15
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Torah Trope Review Aliya 1 to date Prepare Aliya 1, 13:3 Prepare Aliya 2, 13:4-5 |
Sort out the tropes in “kol nasi vahem” at the end of Aliya 1, 13:2
Sort out trope of otam in 13:3 Practice aliya 1 from the lefthand side of the page Learn Aliya 2, 13:4-7 |
| Th, Jan 22
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 1
Review Aliya 2 to date Prepare Aliya 2, 13:8 to … (Jonah sight-read to the end!) |
Try and learn the rest of aliya 2 using a combination (at your pleasure) of real Hebrew and Trope sight reading & repetition, and/or using the audio file. EITHER WAY, repetition is what will get you ready to read it from the Torah (ie., memorized!) |
| Th, Jan 29
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 13:17-18 |
Learn Aliya 3, 13:17-18
For review of aliya 2, in the names of each tribe/leader, make sure you’re putting the accent on the LAST syllable, as indicated by the pink meteg on each. You can confirm with the audio file. |
| Th, Feb 5
4:40-5pm ZOOM (CJG ill) |
Review Aliya 2 for name stresses
Review Aliya 3 to date Prepare Aliya 3, 13:18 |
Practice Aliya 2, first a few times from the right side, then transition over to the LEFT side of page.
Learn Aliya 3, 13:18 |
| Th, Feb 12
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 2 from the Lefthand side
Review Aliya 3 to date Prepare Aliya 3, 13:19 |
Learn Aliya 3, 13:19
Keep smoothing out Aliya 2 from the LEFTHAND SIDE |
| Th, Feb 19
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 13:20 Review Aliya 2 from the TORAH side |
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| LESSONS ON HOLD WHILE FIGURING OUT NEW DATE PER FAMILY’S REQUEST, AND MARCH BREAK | ||
| NEW BM DATE: Saturday Afternoon, Nov. 14, 2026 (Weekday Vayeitzei)
Th, Apr 16 4:40-5:00pm |
Review Torah Trope
Prepare Weekday Vayeitzei Aliya 1, 28:10-11 |
Learn Weekday Vayeitzei Aliya 1, 28:10-11
AND, if you can, I’m challenging you to learn verse 12 as well! |
| Th, Apr 23
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 1 (to date)
Prepare rest of aliya 1 if needed Prepare Aliya 2, 28:13 and 28:14 up to vaneg-ba. |
Learn Aliya 2, 28:13 and 28:14 up to vaneg-ba.
Practice / keep smoothing out Aliya 1 |
| Th, Apr 30
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, rest-of-28:14 and 28:15 |
Learn Aliya 2, rest of 28:14 and 28:15
Practice Aliya 1 from the STA”M |
| Th May 7
NO LESSON – CJG Unavailable |
Please continue with Aliya 2 studies. Be a self-starter! | If you have time, try to learn aliya 2, 28:16 |
| Th, May 14
4:40-5pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare more Aliya 2 Review Aliya 1 from the STA”M side |
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Torah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Vayeitzei Aliya 1 (Kohein) – All in Gen. Chapter 28 (PDF | MP3)
| 10 – 0:00 | 11 – 0:13 | 12 – 0:38 |
Vayeitzei Aliya 2 (Levi) – All in Gen. Chapter 28 (PDF | MP3)
| 13 – 0:00 | 14 – 0:37 | 15 – 1:06 | 16 – 1:41 | 17 – 2:07 |
Vayeitzei Aliya 3 – All in Gen. Chapter 28 (PDF | MP3)
| 18 – 0:00 | 19 – 0:27 | 20 – 0:46 | 21 – 1:23 | 22 – 1:42 |
Shabbat Mincha Ashrei-Uva L’tziyon Section (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)
Shabbat Mincha Amida (Folder) *CJG is doing Mizmor Shir L’Yom HaShabbat
Havdallah (Folder)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Weekday Sh’lach L’Cha Aliya 1 – DONE (incl. STA”M)
Weekday Sh’lach L’Cha Aliya 2 – IN PROGRESS (working on Torah side)
Weekday Sh’lach L’Cha Aliya 3 – IN PROGRESS
Weekday Vayeitzei Aliya 1 –
Weekday Vayeitzei Aliya 2 –
Weekday Vayeitzei Aliya 3 –
Havdallah –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Morah Ruti – confirmed) –