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During the time of the story of Hanukkah, the Syrian-Greeks (at the instigation of the Hellenizers) forbade the Jews to study Torah. But the teachers and young children would hide and study Torah in secret, and if a greek soldier would find them, they would quickly hide their books and then pull out their dreidels and make believe that they were just playing a game and the soldiers would leave. Now it has become tradition to play with a dreidel on chanuka.

Each side of the dreidel has another letter on it.

Nun=nes- a miracle. gimmel=gadol- big. hey=haya-was. shin=sham- there.

A big miracle happened there.

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"Dreidel" is a Yiddish word that means "spinner" or "top".

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