How Did The Dreidel Fool The Greeks?

Hi, this is David Olowski with our special Khaneka question and answers. Captain Hadock writes, "How did the Jews playing drreidles ever fool the Greeks? Did the Ivon walk in and say, "Oh, it's just a bunch of grown men playing with a top and walk out. They weren't cartoon characters who could be fooled with silly tricks." No, they could not. But that's only because you are much more sophisticated. I don't know if you've ever gone to a casino, but you probably play blackjack, you play poker, you might play um dice, you might use the um uh one-armed bandits. Yeah, the slot machines. But uh there's this one thing called a roulette wheel where you put the little ball and you spin it around and the number comes out. That's just a more sophisticated form of a drrele. Yeah, there were all kinds of gambling devices that they had. The gumar refers to a gambler as a mahake beubia, a dice player. And that's what they used. They didn't have playing cards back then. They use things like this. So, a drrele was a gambling device that was used and it was common at the time. So, the idea is if you find a bunch of people hanging up in the mountains gambling, so okay, it's a legal casino, you know, it's an illegal dice game. But the Greeks would see this as something that a person who was going to go gambling would hide out in the mountains to do. That was natural that time. It's just the the drrele was one of the gambling devices that they used at that time. Obviously afterwards it becomes a symbol and becomes much more meaningful and we find deeper meaning in it. But on the simplest level that's how they were gambling. That's why the Greeks saw them gambling. And it was uh no difference than throwing dice, you know, two cubes on the ground or spinning a roulette wheel or spinning a drrele to see who wins. to