What's The Dreidel All About? #dreidel #greece #greekculture #ancientgreece #chanukah #hanukkah

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