ELISE, 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, May 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. |
| Th, May 14
4:20-4:40pm |
Provide BM Folder
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Th, May 21 | NO LESSON – EREV SHAVUOT | Keep practicing the above homework.
If you want a bit of a head start for next week, start listening to the Torah Trope audio file. (PDF | Torah Trope MP3) |
| **We, May 27
5:40-6pm |
Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
Learn Torah Trope, first half (up to the penciled-in line) |
| Th, June 4
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Torah Trope 1st half
Prepare Torah Trope 2nd half |
Learn Torah Trope 2nd half
Make the whole page smooth. THIS WEEK, as you get smoother at singing the page, direct your eyes to the SYMBOLS, rather than the words. |
| Th, June 11
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Torah Trope (entire page)
Prepare Aliya 3, 9:11 and 9:12 up to et hadam for THIS week |
This week, Learn Aliya 3, 9:11 and 9:12 up to et hadam
There is no lesson next week as Cantor Green will be away. Instead, work on the material listed for next week, below this box. |
| Th, Jun 18 | NO LESSON – CJG AWAY, but please do the homework at right ==> | Learn Aliya 3, rest-of-9:12 and 9:13 |
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NO LESSON TODAY – ELISE NOT AVAILABLE. Please do homework at right anyway ==>
Prepare Aliya 3, 9:14 and 9:15 up to la-am. |
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| Th, July 2
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 9:14 and 9:15 up to la-am Review Torah blessings |
Learn Aliya 3, 9:14 and 9:15 up to la-am |
| Th, July 9 | LESSON CANCELLED BY KEREN | |
| Th, July 23
4:20-4:40pm |
Review aliya 3 to date
Prepare rest of aliya 3 Prepare Aliya 2, 9:7 up to et olatecha Review Torah Blessings |
Learn Aliya 3, rest-of-9:15 and 9:16
Learn Aliya 2, 9:7 up to et olatecha |
| Th, July 30
4:20-4:40pm |
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NO LESSON, cancelled by Keren (I think…) |
| Th, Aug 6
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 3 (all)
Review Aliya 2 to date Prepare Aliya 2, rest of 9:7, and 9:8 up to el |
Learn Aliya 2, rest-of-9:7 through 9:9.
Practice “et ei-gel ha-chatat” slowly so you can learn the tricky pronunciation well from the start. |
| Th, Aug 13
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 9:9 |
learn Aliya 2, 9:9 |
| We, Aug 19
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 2 to date
Prepare Aliya 2, 9:10 Prepare Aliya 1, 9:1 |
Practice “et eigel HA-chatat” in verse 9:8
Learn Aliya 2, 9:10 Learn Aliya 1, 9:1 |
| Th, Aug 27
4:20-4:40pm GOOGLE MEET |
Review Aliya 2 (entire)
Review Aliya 1 to date Prepare Aliya 1, 9:2 and 9:3 up to leimor |
Touch up the circled items in aliya 2
Learn Aliya 1, 9:2 and 9:3 up to leimor |
| Th, Sep 3
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 2
Review Aliya 1 to date Prepare Aliya 1, rest-of-9:3 and 9:4 Review Aliya 3, first half. |
Elise went further — 9:3 up to l’chatat!
Learn Aliya 1, rest-of-9:3 and 9:4 Then go back to the beginning of aliya 1 and smooth that out (ie., the homework you did last week) |
| Th, Sep 10
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 2
Review Aliya 1 to date Prepare Aliya 1, 9:5 and 9:6 up to hadavar If there’s time, review Aliya 3. |
Learn Aliya 1, 9:5 and 9:6 up to hadavar.
Review aliya 3 to regain smoothness. |
| Th, Sep 17 | NO LESSON – OJCS RETREAT | |
| Th, Sep 24 | NO LESSON – CJG DAY OFF. But please do homework at right ===> | Learn Aliya 1, rest-of-9:6 (from asher tzivah)
Practice the entire Aliya 1, and once it’s smooth, try it from the LEFT-hand side of the tikkun page. Learn Hinei Eil Y’shuati, up to vay’hi li lishua, using the havdallah folder below. You can print the file called “Havdallah.pdf” if it’s not already in your white folder. |
| Th, Oct. 1
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliya 1 (entire)
Review Aliya 3 (STA”M)
If time, review aliya 2. |
Smooth out Aliya 1, 9:5, specifically focusing on smoothness around vayik-chu and vayik-r’vu.
Smooth out aliya 2 doing lots of listening to the audio file and singing along, then sing it on your own. We need to confirm Saturday AFTERNOON, March 27, as there was some concern that havdallah is not part of the Bat Mitzvah. Please have your mom reach out to me. No panic, probably just a misunderstanding. |
| Th, Oct 8
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Aliyot 1 and 3
Prepare Haftara Trope 1st half |
NOTE, NEW DATE IS SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 3 – SHABBAT HA-CHODESH. PREPARE HAFTARA for SEFARDIM, Ez. 45:18-46:15
Learn Haftara Trope, 1st half. It wouldn’t hurt (for time) if you also listened to and mostly learned the second half. |
| Th, Oct 15
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara Trope to date
Review Aliya 2 from STA”M |
Learn Haftara Trope (all) |
| Th, Oct 22
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Haftara trope
Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Learn Blessing before Haftara. You have 2 weeks to do this. |
| Th, Oct 29 | NO LESSON – CANTOR ON VACATION | Keep studying Blessing before haftara
Keep reviewing Torah aliyot from STA”M side! |
| Th, Nov 5
4:20-4:40pm |
Review Blessing before Haftara
Prepare Haftara ~1st 2 lines |
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Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Torah / Haftarah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)
Sh’mini Weekday Aliya 1, all in Lev. Ch 9 (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:21 | 3 – 0:46 | 4 – 1:09 | 5 – 1:34 | 6 – 1:57 |
Sh’mini Weekday Aliya 2, all in Lev. Ch 9 (PDF | MP3)
| 7 – 0:00 | 8 – 0:42 | 9 – 0:55 | 10 – 1:26 |
Sh’mini Weekday Aliya 3, all in Lev. Ch 9 (PDF | MP3)
| 11 – 0:00 | 12 – 0:16 | 13 – 0:35 | 14 – 0:52 | 15 – 1:05 | 16 – 1:28 |
Sh’mini Weekday 3 Aliyot Sanctuary Scroll (PDF)
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
Weekday Sh’mini Aliya 3 – DONE, but need to do from LEFT (STA”M) side
Weekday Sh’mini Aliya 2 – DONE, but need to do from LEFT (STA”M) side
Weekday Sh’mini Aliya 1 – IN PROGRESS
Havdallah –
Shabbat Mincha Torah Processional –
Shabbat Mincha Torah Recessional –
Ashrei / Uva L’tziyon Section –
D’var Torah (with Rabbi Rose) –
Other items as time allows: More of Mincha service, Ma’ariv