Jonas Prehogan’s Personalized Bar Mitzvah Page

JONAS, 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).

Bar Mitzvah Date: Saturday, May 22, 2027
PARASHAT B’HAR
15 Iyyar, 5787

Tutoring Schedule – Starting June 3, 2026: Wednesdays, 5:40-6:00pm in Cantor Green’s office @ KBI. Will change to Tuesdays in Sept if joining Tuesday BM Club.

DATE/TIME	GOALS	HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
Su, May 31, 2026 9:45-10:30am 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.
We, Jun 3 4:40-5:00pm	Write name, phone number, and email address on BM folder (provided) Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading	Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF \| MP3 – Before \| MP3 – After) If you finish that in plenty of time, you could start listening to the audio file for the Torah Trope, in the downloads section, below.
We, Jun 10 4:40-5pm	Review Torah Blessings Prepare Torah Trope (already previewed its functions, just start learning.















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Downloads (click to open, right-click to save to your computer)

Torah / Haftarah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3 | Haftara Trope MP3)

Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)

Maftir B’har (PDF | MP3)

25:55 – 0:00

26:1 – 0:22

2 – 0:58

Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)

Haftara B’har for “most Ashkenazim”, all in Jeremiah Ch 22 (PDF| MP3)

6 – 0:00	7 – 0:11	8 – 0:48	9 – 1:59	10 – 2:29	11 – 2:49	12 – 3:08	13 – 3:57
14 – 4:08	15 – 5:02	16 – 5:28	17 – 5:49	18 – 6:26	19 – 6:55	20 – 7:28	21 – 7:58
22 – 8:28	23 – 8:54	24 – 9:39	25 – 10:29	26 – 11:03	27 – 11:14

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)

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading –

Torah Trope –

Maftir aliya –

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

Notes

Jonas is away at camp 4 weeks – June 28-July 26

Jonas on vacation Aug 19 & 26