Olivier Lelli’s Personalized Bar Mitzvah Page

Olivier, 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, you can reach out to your tutor, Jenny Burns, at morahjennyburns@gmail.com, or e-mail Cantor Green 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 Afternoon, January 30, 2027, 4:45pm
PARASHAT Weekday Mishpatim
22 Sh’vat, 5787

Tutoring Schedule – Starting Wednesday, June 10, 2026: Wednesday, 4:15 pm -4:45 pm with Morah Jenny Burns. 

When virtual, you’ll meet using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89893255896?pwd=r7wxEixMcdOzp1FnMealacLjziK5vs.1

DATE/TIME GOALS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED
Date Wednesday, June 10, 2026Time 4:15pm Intro to B’nei Mitzvah ProcessDate 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.


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

Get comfy reading your Maftir.

Stretch Goal –> read parashat Mishpatim in English. Don’t feel you HAVE to use Safaria.org. It just happens to be useful. Pay attention to your emotional and intellectual reactions to certain passages. They won’t always align.

Wednesday, June 17, 2026Time 4:15 pm Prepare Blessing Before and After Torah reading Successes: Torah Blessing sounds great! Flying through reading the maftir

New Work: follow Cantor Green’s recording with your maftir, paying attention to sof pasuk clauses. They should start to feel like musical puzzle pieces clicking into place. Next, chant along with Cantor Green where you can. Next, can you do chant those sof pasuk clauses independently?

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Time 4:15 pm

Review Torah BlessingsReview Sof Pasuk clauses in maftir

Learn Etnachta clauses

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

Torah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)

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

Weekday Mishpatim Aliya 1 – All in Ex. Ch. 21 (PDF | MP3)

1 – 0:00 2 – 0:11 3 – 0:30 4 – 0:49 5 – 1:17 6 – 1:35

Weekday Mishpatim Aliya 2 – All in Ex. Ch. 21 (PDF | MP3)

7 – 0:00 8 – 0:19 9 – 0:45 10 – 0:57 11 – 1:13

Weekday Mishpatim Aliya 3 – All in Ex. Ch. 21 (PDF | MP3)

12 – 0:00 13 – 0:16 14 – 0:36 15 – 0:56 16 – 1:06 17 – 1:21 18 – 1:33 19 – 1:54

Havdallah (Folder)

Shabbat Mincha Torah Service (Folder)

Shabbat Mincha From Ashrei (Folder)

Shabbat Mincha Amida (Folder) *CJG does Mizmor Shir L’Yom HaShabbat

Goals in order of priority

Blessings before and after Torah reading – ✅

Torah Trope –

Aliya 3 –

Aliya 2 –

Aliya 1 –

Havdallah (Eliyahu HaNavi, Debbie Friedman Havdallah) –

Shabbat Mincha Torah Processional –

Shabbat Mincha Torah Recessional –

D’var Torah (with Rabbi Rose) –

If time allows: Other parts of Shabbat mincha

Notes

Jenny Burns is tutor.