Josie, 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 visits with Cantor Green. 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 |
| Th, June 3
4:30-5:15pm Cantor Green’s office |
Intro to B’nei Mitzvah Process
Goal Setting Confirm BM Date BM Materials Folder/URL Intro to Webpage and homework technique Set Lesson Day/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, June 10
5:00-5:20pm |
Prepare Haftara Trope like a song | Learn first half of Haftara Trope like a song, up to first “sof pasuk” (PDF | Torah Trope MP3) |
| Th, June 17
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Haftara Trope first half
Prepare rest of Haftara trope sheet |
Learn Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Learn Torah Trope like a song, first half, up to the “]” using the audio file in the downloads section, below. |
| Th, Jun 24
3:40-4pm today |
Review Haftara trope
Prepare Blessing before Haftara |
Learn blessing before Haftara |
| Th, July 1
5:00-5:20pm |
NO LESSON – CANTOR VACATION | Keep learning blessing before Haftara. |
| Th, July 8
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Blessing before haftara
Prepare Haftara 2:1 |
Learn Haftara 2:1 using audio file and time table below. |
| Th, July 15
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date (with blessing before)
Prepare haftara 2:2-3 |
Learn Haftara 2:2-3. Use the “Haftara MP3” audio file in the downloads section, below. As you can see in the table, 2:2 starts at 0:38 seconds, and 2:3 starts at 1:08. Use the slider within the audio file to get to the right starting point. We’ll do it that way from now on. Note that v17 is missing the verse announcement, but the starting point will still be as indicated. |
| Th, July 22
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:4. Maybe some of 5 |
NO LESSON – JOSIE AT CAMP |
| Th, July 29
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date
Prepare Haftara 2:4 |
Touch up v3, making sure to differentiate between la-a-chei-chem and v’-la-a-cho-tei-chem.
Learn Haftara 2:4 (from 1:21 in the audio file) |
| Th, Aug 5
5:00-5:20pm |
Review Haftara to date including blessing
Prepare Haftara 2:5 |
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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 (Sample only) (PDF | MP3)
| 20:25 – 0:00 | 26 – 0:40 | 27 – 1:00 |
Blessing before Haftara (PDF)
Blessing before Haftara (PDF | MP3)
Haftara (Sample only) (PDF | MP3)
| 7 – 0:00 | 8 – 0:32 | 9 – 1:14 | 10 – 1:40 | 11 – 2:04 |
| 12 – 2:33 | 13 – 2:58 | 14 – 3:30 | 15 – 4:07 |
Blessings after Haftara, KBI-style (PDF | MP3)
| #1, 1st half – 0:00 | #1, 2nd half – 1:10 | #2 – 1:38 | #3 – 1:38 | #4, 1st half – 2:37 | #4, 2nd half – 3:06 |
Shabbat Morning Torah Service (PDFs | MP3s)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Maftir aliya – IN PROGRESS
Haftara Trope –
Blessing before Haftara –
Haftara –
Blessings after Haftara –
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah & Mitzvah Project –
Other items as time allows: Other Torah aliyot; Musaf; Hallel
Josie is going to day camp. May have to move lessons a bit later over summer.