{"id":1170,"date":"2010-12-02T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/12\/02\/playing-dreidel\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:56:00","slug":"playing-dreidel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/12\/02\/playing-dreidel\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Dreidel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, Hanukkah time again.  Last year I shared with all of you <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2009\/12\/10\/my-many-menorahs\/\"target=\"_blank\">my collection of menorahs<\/a>, and sadly, that appears to be the last time Judaism was featured on The Magical Buffet.  Fortunately this year I have something fun to share with all of you for the 2010 Hanukkah season&#8230;..my little dreidel collection!<\/p>\n<p>A dreidel is a four sided spinning top that has a different Hebrew character on each side.  It&#8217;s a game traditionally played during Hanukkah.  Players start with an equal number of tokens, these can be pennies, candy, whatever.  At the beginning of each round every player puts a token in the pot.  Any time the pot is empty or only has one token left every one should pitch in another token.  Each player takes a turn spinning the top, the dreidel, and depending on what symbol comes up determines what happens.<\/p>\n<p>If you get Gimmel; you get everything in the pot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3469\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Gimmel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Gimmel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3469\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gimmel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you get Hey; you get half of the pot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3470\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hey-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3470\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hey (Or is it Hay?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you get Shin; you add a token to the pot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3471\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Shin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Shin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3471\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you get Nun; nothing happens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3472\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nun-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3472\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The game is over once the pot is empty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dreidels.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dreidels-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3473\" \/><\/a>Even as I child, each year my father would have to write down the Hebrew characters and what they meant with regards to the game.  Thus it should surprise no one that I had to look up how to play to write this little article.  It&#8217;s been years, many years, since I&#8217;ve played dreidel but I&#8217;ve never gotten rid of the dreidels I&#8217;ve received as gifts from family.  <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2009\/12\/10\/my-many-menorahs\/\"target=\"_blank\">Much like the menorahs I keep<\/a>, they&#8217;re just so beautiful and so varied I&#8217;ve kept them all these years.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Hanukkah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, Hanukkah time again.  Last year I shared with all of you my collection of menorahs, and sadly, that appears to be the last time Judaism was featured on The Magical Buffet.  Fortunately this year I have something fun to share with all of you for the 2010 Hanukkah season&#8230;.my little dreidel collection!  And we&#8217;ll even talk about how to play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}