[Avodah] Aliyah l'regel

[Jonathan Baker]

Daniel Israel:
 
> Mazel tov, Mazel tov!  But nu, why not a bracha that they should 
> live in Yerushalayim, Ir HaKodesh, and not need to leave home for 
> aliyah l'regel?

And why is it "aliyah l'regel" when the way the halacha is practiced
seems to be "aliyah b'regel"?  Ascent to the foot?  The foot of what?
God's foot? (see Shiur Komah-type texts, also second chapter of gemara
Chagigah).

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