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Collectible Silver Dreidels This unusual series of Hanukkah collectible dreidels has the shape of 3D Star of David with colorful enamel. It will add beauty and "spinning" lightness to any collection or Hanukkah player! And ,of course, all our dreidels spin wonderfully! We have an assortment of colors from all styles for you to choose! FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $75!
A dreidel (Hebrew: ñáéáåï, Sevivon) is a four-sided top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is used for a gambling game similar to Teetotum. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: ð (Nun), â (Gimel), ä (Hei), ù (Shin), which together form the acronym for "ðñ âãåì äéä ùí" (Nes Gadol Haya Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). These letters also form a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with a dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word "nit" ('nothing'), hei stands for "halb" ('half'), gimel for "gants" ('all'), and shin for "shteln" ('put'). In Israel, instead of ù (Shin), the letter ô (Pe) is written to symbolize the location of the miracle — "ôä" (Po – "here"). The Yiddish word "dreydl" comes from the word "dreyen" ("to turn"). The Hebrew word "sevivon" comes also from the root "sov" ("turn") and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi (the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) when he was 5 years old. Before that, different terms were used by Hayyim Nahman Bialik in his poems While the only mandated mitzvot for Chanukah consist of lighting candles and saying the full hallel, there are numerous other customs that have come to be associated with Chanukah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||