A dreidel or dreidl is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Each side of the Dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman spun a d reidel for an hour in outer space.
About Dreidel in brief
A dreidel or dreidl is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Each side of the Dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. These letters are represent in Yiddish a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game derived from teetotum played with a dre Fidel. Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman spun a d reidel for an hour in outer space. According to some scholars, the dreider developed from an Irish or English top introduced into Germany known as a teettum. In the wake of Zionism, theDreidel was renamed sevivon in modern Hebrew, and the letters altered, with shin generally replaced by pe.
The Hebrew word comes from the root SBB and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi when he was 5 years old. It was not adopted into Hebrew by Jews from Ashkenazi Jews from Udmurtia and Tatarstania. Some symbolic significance ascribe to the significance of the word varfl, which was fixed to several other appellations of a dReidel such as volchokl, khanuke-volchok, farghev, zabar, zavkel, and zabkel. The word dreydl comes from dreyen, which means “to turn” or “to spin” in Hebrew and is used to refer to a spinning top.
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