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JOG: Having an Aliyah (being called up to the Torah)

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Jewish Online Guides: Being called up to the Torah is called an Aliyah which actually means an ascent to the holiness of the Torah reading itself. To signal this honour we make a special blessing thanking God for choosing us, and for giving us the Torah, His covenant with us.

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