Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
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| - Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
- The game that uses a dreidel is often played on Hanukkah. The top has four sides and each side has a Hebrew letter on it. The letters are: gimel, hey, nun and pey (in Israel) or shin (outside of Israel). Those are the first four letters of each word in the Hebrew phrase, "A great miracle happened here/there." The game is celebrated in the popular Hanukkah song "I Have a Little Dreidel".
- Some Jewish commentators ascribe symbolic significance to the markings on the dreidel. One commentary, for example, connects the four letters with the four exiles to which the nation of Israel was historically subject—Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. While not being mandated (mitzvah) for Hanukkah (the only mandated mitzvot are lighting candles and saying the full hallel), the Dreidel is a customary game played during the holiday and has become one of the symbols associated with Hanukkah.
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| - Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
- Some Jewish commentators ascribe symbolic significance to the markings on the dreidel. One commentary, for example, connects the four letters with the four exiles to which the nation of Israel was historically subject—Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The Yiddish word "dreydl" comes from the word "dreyen" ("to turn"). The Hebrew word "sevivon" comes also from the root "SBB" ("to turn") and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi (the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) when he was 5 years old. Hayyim Nahman Bialik used a different word, "kirkar" (from the root "KRKR" - "to spin"), in his poems, but it was not adopted into spoken Hebrew. While not being mandated (mitzvah) for Hanukkah (the only mandated mitzvot are lighting candles and saying the full hallel), the Dreidel is a customary game played during the holiday and has become one of the symbols associated with Hanukkah.
- The game that uses a dreidel is often played on Hanukkah. The top has four sides and each side has a Hebrew letter on it. The letters are: gimel, hey, nun and pey (in Israel) or shin (outside of Israel). Those are the first four letters of each word in the Hebrew phrase, "A great miracle happened here/there." The game is celebrated in the popular Hanukkah song "I Have a Little Dreidel".
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