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By: Rivka C. Berman, Contributor Click Here for More Holiday Articles
The first two letters, Alef through Yod - are valued from 1 to 10, respectively. The second set of nine letters, kof through Kuf - are valued 20 to100, respectively (counting in tens) The last three letters, Reish through Tov - are valued 200-400, respectively (counting in hundreds). · The Dreidel and the Snake · The Dreidel and God · The Dreidel and the Jewish Messiah The Dreidel and the Snake Evil got its due in the Chanukah battle. This scenario is replayed with every dreidel spin. The letters on the Dreidel, Nun (50), Gimmel (3), Hey (5), Shin (300) equals 358, add up to the same value as the Hebrew word for snake, nachash (Nun (50), Chet (8), Shin(300). Beginning with the story of Adam & Eve and the forbidden fruit, the snake became the Jewish anthropomorphic repre-sentation of evil. Every time a dreidel ends its spin, evil (nachash - snake) falls. When evil stumbles, God's goodness triumphs. The Dreidel and God One mathematically minded rabbi found that the phrase "God is king, God rules and shall rule" totals 358 as well. The Dreidel and the Jewish Messiah The number 358 also equals the numeric value of Mashiach, the Jewish Messiah, who will bring upon the world a time of redemption. Mashiach is spelled:
This presents yet another layer of meaning to be read into the dreidel.
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