SPENCER, 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 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).
| DATE/TIME | GOALS | HOMEWORK ASSIGNED |
| Tu, Oct. 28, 2025
6:45-7:30pm JUST THE PARENTS 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, Dec 18
5-5:20pm |
Provide BM Folder
Intro to webpage – especially homework technique Goal Setting |
Listen to Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After) 15 times before our next lesson. |
| Tu, Dec. 30 | Review Blessings before and after Torah reading
Prepare Torah Trope sheet, first half |
Learn Torah Trope Sheet, first half (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
For next week (no lesson, but homework) – listen to Torah Trope sheet, 2nd half. |
| Th, Jan 8, 2026
NO LESSON – HOMEWORK ONLY |
PLEASE DO THE HOMEWORK AT RIGHT THIS WEEEK ===> | Learn Torah Trope sheet, second half (PDF | Torah Trope MP3). |
| Th, Jan. 15
5-5:20pm |
Re-Prepare Torah trope sheet
Review Torah Blessings |
Learn entire Torah Trope sheet (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Discuss with your parents: This Monday morning is Rosh Chodesh and looks just like your service! Come to the KBI Chapel 7:15am. If you come a few minutes earlier, someone can help you put on tallit and t’filin. |
| Th, Jan 22
5-5:20pm |
Review Torah Trope sheet (entire)
Review Torah Prepare Aliya 4, 7:48 and 7:49 up to mishkalah |
Learn Aliya 4, 7:48 and 7:49 up to mishkalah |
| Th, Jan 29
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, rest of 7:49, and maybe some of 7:50 Review Torah blessings |
Continue learning 7:48 and 7:49 up to hakodesh. |
| Th, Feb 5
5-5:20pm ZOOM (CJG ill) |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, 7:50-52, and 7:53 up to bakar sh’nayim. Review Torah blessings |
Learn Aliya 4, 7:50-52, and 7:53 up to bakar sh’nayim. |
| Th, Feb 12
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 4 to date
Prepare Aliya 4, rest-of-7:53 Review Torah blessings |
Learn Aliya 4, rest-of-7:53 |
| Th, Feb 19
5-5:20 pm |
Review all of aliya 4, with the Torah blessings
Prepare Aliya 3, 28:11 and 28:12 up to lapar ha-echad. |
Learn Aliya 3, 28:11 and 28:12 up to lapar ha-echad. |
| Th, Feb 26
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, rest-of-28:12 and 28:13 Review Aliya 4 |
Learn Aliya 3, rest-of-28:12 and 28:13
MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS SAY “MIN-CHA” (not mim-cha) throughout all your aliyot! |
| Th, Mar 5
5-5:20pm |
Review Aliya 3 to date
Prepare Aliya 3, 28:14, and maybe some of 28:15 |
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Torah Trope (PDF | Torah Trope MP3)
Blessings Before and After Torah Reading (PDF | MP3 – Before | MP3 – After)
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 1 for R”Ch/Chanukah – Num. 28:1-5 – (PDF | MP3)
| 1 – 0:00 | 2 – 0:12 | 3 – 0:37 | 4 – 1:00 | 5 – 1:17 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 2 for R”Ch/Chanukah – Num. 28:6-10 – (PDF | MP3)
| 6 – 0:00 | 7 – 0:16 | 8 – 0:34 | 9 – 0:55 | 10 – 1:19 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 3 for R”Ch/Chanukah – Num. 28:11-15 – (PDF | MP3)
| 11 – 0:00 | 12 – 0:26 | 13 – 0:52 | 14 – 1:13 | 15 – 1:45 |
Weekday Rosh Chodesh Aliya 4 for R”Ch/Chanukah Day 7 – Num. 7:48-53 – (PDF | MP3)
| 48 – 0:00 | 49 – 0:17 | 50 – 0:56 | 51 – 1:07 | 52 – 1:25 | 53 – 1:32 |
Weekday Torah Service (PDF | MP3s)
Blessings before and after Torah reading – DONE
Torah Trope – DONE
Aliya 1 –
Aliya 2 –
Aliya 3 – IN PROGRESS
Aliya 4 -DONE
Torah Processional –
Torah Recessional –
D’var Torah (with TBD) –
Other items as time allows: Heiche Musaf; Full Hallel.