Dear Friends,
Painting exhibition by Mihály Kós depicting everyday
Jewish life Trenderli or in other words dreidel is
a spinning top, with four sides, each marked with a
different Hebrew letter (nun, gimmel, hey and shin).
The custom of playing dreidel on Hanukkah is based
on a legend that, during the time of the Maccabees,
when Jewish children were forbidden from studying
Torah, they would defy the decree and study anyway.
When a Greek official would come close they would
put away their books and take out spinning tops,
claiming they were just playing games.
