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Learn the meaning of Hanukkah, the Hanukkah story, how it's celebrated and the dates in 2024. ... and Jews kept the custom of playing dreidel on Hanukkah. Dreidels are marked with the letters for ...
A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, [1] (/ ˈ d r eɪ d əl / DRAY-dəl; Yiddish: דרײדל, romanized: dreydl, plural: dreydlech; [a] Hebrew: סביבון, romanized: sevivon) is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in Europe and ...
wundervisuals/Getty Images. 4. Playing Dreidel. A dreidel is a tiny spinning top, inscribed with Hebrew letters on its four sides, and it’s used to play the popular Hanukkah game by the same name.
1) Spinning the dreidel was a total cover-up. During the 2nd century B.C.E., learning Torah was outlawed in Greek-Syrian law. The crime was punishable by death.
"I Have a Little Dreidel" [1] (also known as "The Dreidel Song" [1] or "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") is a children's Hanukkah song in the English-speaking world that also exists in a Yiddish version called "Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl", (Yiddish: איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל Lit: I am a little dreidel German: Ich bin ein kleiner Dreidel).
Night and day, our top (dreidel / s'vivon) turns Gather round the table, we'll give you a treat סֻפְגָּנִיּוֹת נֹאכַל בָּם לָרֹב : Sufganiot, Nochal bam larov! Jelly doughnuts (sufganiot), we'll also eat many. Dreidels (or Sevivon) to play with, and latkes to eat הָאִירוּ, הַדְלִיקוּ : Ha'iru, hadliku,
As the Jewish Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah, is fast approaching (December 25, 2024 to January 2, 2025), we’re looking forward to playing dreidel (and winning gelt!), lighting the menorah with ...
Miracle of the cruse [a] of oil (Hebrew: נֵס פַּךְ הַשֶּׁמֶן), or the Miracle of Hanukkah, is an Aggadah depicted in the Babylonian Talmud [1] as one of the reasons for Hanukkah. In the story, the miracle occurred after the liberation of the Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt, and it describes the finding of a jug ...