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aliyos

aliyos is the plural of aliya.

aliyos is the plural of aliyah.

Meaning of aliyah

Noun

aliyah (plural aliyahs or aliyot or aliyoth or aliyos)

  1. (Judaism, countable) The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
  2. (Judaism, countable) A subsection of a parashah (weekly Torah reading) read by (or on behalf of) one person.
  3. (uncountable) The immigration of Jews to Israel.
    • In the past, Yemenite Jews did not have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at all; they first encountered this ceremony when they made Aliyah to Israel.2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 53
  4. (countable) One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.

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Questions about aliyos

What is aliyos the plural of?
Aliyos is the plural of aliya.

Words near aliyos in the dictionary

  1. aliyah
  2. aliyahs
  3. aliyas
  4. Aliyev
  5. Aliyha
  6. aliyos
  7. aliyot
  8. aliyoth
  9. aliz
  10. Aliza
  11. Alizadeh

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