This dreidel is traditional for celebrating Hanukkah from within Israel and contains the Hebrew letters – Nun, Gimmel Heh and Peh – which stand for “Nes Gadol Hayah Poh” – ‘A great miracle happened here’.

The letters on the traditional Hanukkah dreidel also have spiritual references as well as referring to the four kingdoms that dominated Israel.

The connection to the game of dreidel goes back to the time of the Temple when the Jews were prohibited from studying Torah. They needed a way to hide their Torah learning and dreidel was often used as a decoy. When they saw others coming, the Jews would hide their Torah books and take out their dreidels, thus tricking them that they were just playing a simple harmless game.

It is said that the entire world is like a spinning dreidel with everything constantly revolving and changing from one thing into the next – the first becomes last and the last becomes first – from top to bottom and from bottom to top.

Product Features

• Traditional Jewish Nickel Plated Dreidel with Glass Crystals and Artistic Design of Jerusalem
• Height of dreidel – 4 cm / 1.57 inches
• Diameter of dreidel: – 2 cm / 0.78 inches