Isnt that from an old German gamble game?
Uh...teetotum
edit: someone else posted it first
Never said he didn,t. Just pointed it out that google is your best friend when it comes to finding answers.
Chat soon mate bye for now.
When Hebrew was revived as a spoken language, the dreidel was called, among other names, a sevivon, which is the one that caught on.
Thus the dreidel game represents an irony of Jewish history. In order to celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, which celebrates our victory over cultural assimilation, we play the dreidel game, which is an excellent example of cultural assimilation! Of course, there is a world of difference between imitating non-Jewish games and worshipping idols, but the irony remains nonetheless.
According to a 19th century Rabbi, ancient Jews played the dreidel to fool the Greeks when they were studying Torah which was one of the prohibitions of the Greek King Antiochus. Some people also believe that the four letters in the dreidel represent the four kingdoms which attempted to destroy the Jewish community: Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome.
