Aliyah Congregation

The name of our Hebraic Faith congregation is Aliyah - a Hebrew word which literally means 'to go up'. Aliyah is used to honor someone from the congregation to come up to the Bimah (a raised platform at the center of the congregation from where Torah is read) and recite the blessings before the Torah is read. It is also used to describe the journey of someone emigrating to Israel.