Hanukkah
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Hanukkah is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.
Dreidels, Hanukkah menorah, and sufganiyot
Hanukkah table
Hanukkah lamp unearthed near Jerusalem about 1900
Section from the Aramaic Scroll of Antiochus in Babylonian supralinear punctuation, with an Arabic translation
Dreidel
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A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in Europe and Latin America.
Dreidels for sale at Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, Israel, with Israel specific lettering on blue dreidels (נ ג ה פ) and diaspora lettering on orange dreidels (נ ג ה ש)
Ancient Middle Eastern top resembling a dreidel
Wooden dreidel
Photo of the world's most valuable dreidel, valued at $70,000 in 2019