מועדים לשיחה; מהדורה משפחתית, חנוכה, נר שישי, הידעתם?Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Fun Fact
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1There is a custom on Ḥanukka to play with special spinning tops called dreidels (in Yiddish) or sevivonim (in Hebrew). The Greeks forbade Jews to learn Torah and so Jews would meet in secret to learn, but if a Greek soldier walked past, they would pretend to be gambling with their dreidels. The words dreidel (Yiddish) and sevivon (Hebrew) both mean to turn or spin. The dreidel has four sides, each of which features a Hebrew letter. In Israel, the letters are nun, gimel, heh, and peh. Outside Israel, they’re nun, gimel, heh, shin. The letters stand for the Hebrew phrase “Nes gadol haya po/sham,” meaning, “A great miracle happened here/there” (here for those in Israel, there for those outside of Israel).