Games The most popular game associated with Hanukah is the dreidel game. A dreidel is a four-sided top containing a letter on each side. Each letter stands for one word of the phrase-"A great miracle happened there (here)". The Hebrew letter, 'nun' means 'nes', or miracle; the 'gimmel' stands for 'gadol', or great; the 'heh' means happened; and the 'shin', stands for there or when played in Israel 'peh', which stands for here. According to the Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, there is a deeper meaning to the dreidel and its four letters. The simple dreidel represents a Jewish historical time line. The four letters stand for four different empires that tried to destroy the Jewish people: Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. 1.
The Dreidel Game: If the player lands on shin or peh, the player adds two pennies to the pot. When no pennies are left in the pot, each player adds one. When one player has won everything, the game is over. 2. Hide
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