Aliyah

Plural  aliyahs,  aliyoth , or  aliyot , Hebrew  'aliya (“going up”)  in Judaism, the honour accorded to a worshiper of being called up to read an assigned passage from the Torah (first five books of the Bible). Because the passage assigned for each sabbath-morning service is subdivided into a minimum of seven sections, at least seven different persons are called up for these readings. An additional reader is called up to repeat part of