Jillian, 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 me (or your assigned tutor) 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, Mar 5, 2026
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. |
| Tu, May 19, 2026
5-5:20pm |
Provide BM folder
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Learn Torah Trope, 1st half, like a song, but concentrating on looking at the coloured symbols more than the work (name of the trope). When you sing it back to Cantor Green, you’ll be singing the names of the trope. |
| Tu, May 26
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review Torah Trope 1st half Prepare Torah Trope 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope 2nd half.
Review entire trope page so you can sing the whole thing to Cantor Green. Make sure you start looking at the symbols, not just the words. |
| Tu, June 2
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Trope
Review Torah blessings Prepare Maftir 24:21-22 |
Learn Blessing After Torah reading
Learn Maftir, 24:21-22 |
| Tu, June 9
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah blessings
Review Maftir 24:21-22 Work on Blessing after Torah reading Prepare Maftir 24:23 |
Finish learning blessing after Torah reading.
Learn Maftir 24:23 (end of your maftir!) |
| Tu, June 16
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Review maftir (entire) Prepare Haftara Trope |
Learn Haftara Trope (full page) |
| Tu, Jun 23
5-5:20pm |
Review Haftara Trope
Review Maftir Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Learn Blessing before Haftara |
| Tu, Jun 30
5-5:20pm ZOOM FROM COTTAGE? |
CJG MIXED UP LESSON TIME. RESCHEDULED TO JULY 2. | |
| **Th, July 2
4:40-5:00pm |
Review Blessing before Haftara
Prepare Haftara 44:15 |
Learn Haftara 44:15 |
| Tu, July 7
5-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 44:16 and 44:17 up to |
Learn Haftara 44:16 and 44:17 up to yil-BAshu |
| Tu, July 14 | NO LESSON – CANTOR ON VACATION, but please do the homework at right ==> | Learn Haftara rest-of-44:17
Keep practicing maftir (Torah reading) with Blessings before and after Torah reading. |
| Tu, July 21
JILLIAN NOT AVAILABLE. HOMEWORK ONLY THIS WEEK! |
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THERE WAS NO LESSON TODAY, BUT PLEASE:
Learn Haftara 44:18, and 44:19 up to (the first) ha-chitzonah (there two of them in that sentence) |
| Tu, July 28
5-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare rest-of-Haftara 44:19 and 44:20 |
Finish learning Haftara 44:19
Learn Haftara 44:20 |
| PEI BREAK | NO LESSONS, but… ==> | Try to learn another verse or two while you’re away. |
| Tu, Aug 18
5-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date (44:20, or later)
Prepare more Haftara |
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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 Aliya (3 p’sukim)- Emor – All in Lev. 24 (PDF | MP3)
| 24:21 – 0:00 | 24:22 – 0:13 | 24:23 – 0:32 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara Emor, all in Ezekiel Ch 44 (PDF | MP3)
| 15 – 0:00 | 16 – 0:53 | 17 – 1:18 | 18 – 1:59 | 19 – 2:25 | 20 – 3:21 | 21 – 3:42 | 22 – 3:58 |
| 23 – 4:34 | 24 – 4:53 | 25 – 5:25 | 26 – 6:05 | 27 – 6:18 | 28 – 6:47 | 29 – 7:13 | 30 – 7:33 |
| 31 – 8:15 |
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
Torah Trope – DONE
Maftir aliya – DONE
Haftara Trope –
Blessing before Haftara –
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Rose) –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel