Misha, 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).
KBI Livestream: www.kehillatbethisrael.com/livestream (select chapel feed) – Mo/Th, 7:30am are Torah reading days.
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Mo, Apr. 27 with Eliana
We, May 6 with Cantor Green Bar Mitzvah Family Launch Meetings |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Intro to Webpage Goal Setting Lesson Time (with Eliana) |
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. |
| Fr, May 7, 2026
Time??- |
Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading | Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) |
| Date/Time | Review Torah Blessings
Prepare Torah Trope |
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| Thu, May 7
10 am |
Work through Blessings Before Torah reading | Practice Blessings Before Torah reading (try to listen to the audio at least once a day) |
| Wed, May 13
8 am |
Finish Torah Blessings | Practice Blessings for the Torah
Get familiar with the words of the third aliyah |
| Mon, May 18
10 am |
Start Aliyah 3, verse 27 | Practice Blessings for the Torah
Listen to Aliyah 3, verse 27 daily Try to practice Aliyah 3, verse 27 most days |
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Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | PDF with transliteration | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After )
Weekday Tol’dot Aliya 1 – All in Gen. 25 (PDF | MP3)
| 19 – 0:00 | 20 – 0:14 | 21 – 0:43 | 22 – 1:05 |
Weekday Tol’dot Aliya 2 – All in Gen. 25 (PDF | MP3)
| 23 – 0:00 | 24 – 0:32 | 25 – 0:44 | 26 – 1:01 |
Weekday Tol’dot Aliya 3 – In Gen. 25 & 26 (PDF | MP3)
| 25:27 – 0:00 | 28 – 0:25 | 29 – 0:42 | 30 – 0:57 | 31 – 1:22 | 32 – 1:36 | 33 – 1:53 |
| 34 – 2:13 | 26:1 – 2:42 | 2 – 3:09 | 3 – 3:28 | 4 – 4:02 | 5 – 4:30 |
Weekday Tol’dot 3 Aliyot – Sanctuary Scroll (PDF)
Weekday Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)
Blessings before and after Torah reading –
Torah Trope –
Weekday Tol’dot Aliya 1 –
Weekday Tol’dot Aliya 2 –
Weekday Tol’dot Aliya 3 (longer) –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with Sue Potechin? Rabbi Rose will only here a month prior) –