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What's The Dreidel All About? #dreidel #greece #greekculture #ancientgreece #chanukah #hanukkah
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The dreidel - so seemingly insignificant - and yet this little dreidel contains the story of the Jewish people; the history of the whole world. Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair is a lecturer in Talmudic logic and Jewish Philosophy at the Ohr Somayach/Tanenbaum College of Judaic studies in Jerusalem. #dreidel #greece #greekculture #ancientgreece #chanukah #hanukkah #Dreidel #Latkes #JewishTradition #hanukkahgifts #hannukah #hidabroot #judaism #HolidayCelebration #MiracleofLights #Chanukah2024 #Torah #Hidabroot #judaism #spirituality #spiritual For more inspiring content: @Hidabrootcom
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what is it that is carv on the sides of
our d n Yim sin he on the surface those
letters stand for NES Gad ha sham A
great miracle happened there the
commemoration of a miraculous victory of
a faithful few over the might of the
Greek Empire but on a deeper level the
drel is a microcosmic representation of
the four kingdoms Babylon Persia Greece
and Rome spinning around the center the
Jewish people and the hand that spins
the dral comes from
above every Empire thinks that it will
last forever but the hand that spins
only spins the drel of history for a
predetermined time and then each Empire
despite its vain glorious boasting
falters on its axis and finally
crashes Hebrew letters have numerical
values if you add up the numerical value
of nun giml he and shin sin you will
have
358 which just happens to be the
numerical value of the gatria of mosia
the Messiah who's coming we await
daily the drel a children's game played
in The Fire Light of a cold winter night
the manura silently glowing in the
window the drle its four sides spinning
around the Still Point in the Turning
Circle spinning so fast that its sides
blur into nothingness the drel so
seemingly
insignificant and yet this little drel
contains the story of the Jewish people
the history of the whole world
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