Hanukkah will rotate into the announcement of a hidden light.
Even his game over the infant becomes important shift in the symbolization of the history of Israel and the world
. Thus, I am referring to the top, dreidel, or spinning top, as you call it
. You will see below, aided by the wise commeRamban and his comment Bereshit 28:12; or Pirkei De Rabbi Eliezer 35; the Maharal Ner Mitzvah, the Bnei Yisasschar and Rav Nachman Bulman's comment, what is behind the dreidel, a fascinating history.
Its faces are four Hebrew letters
NOUN - Gimel - HEI - SHIN -
initials "Nes Gadol Haia Sham", that is to say, "A great miracle happened there "and that Israel is why we change the last letter, and instead of the Shin Pei is used for prayer is" A great miracle happened here (Po).
But there is more here than it seems .
In this verse from Genesis that I told you, ony says something about Iaakov: "Then I dreamed of, there is a staircase placed in the earth, whose top reached to heaven. The angels of God ascending
, descending on it. ".
Ramban, that is to say Najmánides, one of the most prominent mystics of our people, wrote that the fact that the angels ascended and descended, in the famous dream of our third patriarch, was locked up the History Am Israel. And that these angels were the guardians of the four great empires protectors, which in the future, dominate the Jewish people:
Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome
. So, the four letters that surround our toupiene would they not more than the graphic representation of these four empires and how?
The NOUN symbolizes Babylon, in the year-586.détruisit the Temple of Jerusalem, the physical connection of Israel with the Creator, the place that the fluid conveyed spiritual energy. The soul or the "Nefesh", a word that begins with that letter NOUN of Am Israel that this empire was damaged
The Gimel is represented by the exile of Persia ETDE Medes, recounted in the story of Esther. Through Haman, the empire tried to physically destroy the Jewish people. "Guf" is the Hebrew word for "body", that this empire almost succeeded in annihilating.
The SHIN is linked to Greece, just our history, in which the empire trying to dominate the "Sejel" (a word that begins with that letter), which is wisdom and knowledge of Israel. The attempted Hellenization of the Torah frustrated by the Maccabees.
The HEI ultimately means Rome. The empirequi claimed complete with everything "Hakol" with the "totality" of Jewish existence. Ilsdétruisirent again the Temple (the second) and with it the "nefesh", they almost complete our people after the battle at Betar and they leave us without "guf", and as heirs of the Hellenic world, which they then added as Christianity religion of the empire, they looked through it to convert to a New Israel by destroying the "sejel" Am Israel.
And so all powerful, these four letters, or entities, or empires, each written on a wall of the dreidel are all ultimately a shaky small point that lies at the base as if it ' was the letter "iud", the smallest of all and one that accurately represents the "yid", the "Jew". And
cepoint is like the Jewish people, much smaller but on which, very often, the world tourne.Vous just read the newspapers this semainepour you realize that it is so.
And as always, and although we do not notice the hand that moves the dreidel, and all existence, is the one above. And that same hand, in spite of strength, power, brilliance of so many empires (others use the same letters, but the call differently: Nebuchadnezzar, Gog, Haman to Seir), which has guaranteed that all that remains to tell the story is the same little people that all those tempted to bend.
Sameah Hag! ..
Rabbi M. Polakoff
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