What Even IS a DREIDEL？？ ｜｜ VLOGUKKAH DAY 4
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Summary
On today's vlog, I talk about the story of the dreidel, my outfit of the day, and the game we play on Hanukkah. I also talk about how you can get a pot of gold from playing the game.
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light the candles left to right each night go and add one
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hello friends and welcome to vloggica day four so today i already woke up i made myself a little
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bit of coffee i actually already posted today's vlog yesterday's vlog it's very confusing to
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talk about what video i'm posting as i'm recording a video so i already posted a vlog and that went up
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on my channel so that's what i did first thing in the morning and then i did my makeup because i
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wanted to be able to when jacob and i just go out already have my makeup ready to go so i'm all done
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but the next project is redoing my nails my nails are kind of a disaster zone right now
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and i want to have them looking nice i hate when my nails look chipped i hate it i think it's one of
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the least classic things is having chipped nails it's just the worst so i don't know if you can see
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they just look really really terrible so i'm going to redo them and then i'll show you guys
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the finished result if you're curious about how i do my nails i have a video on my channel all
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about the classic girl's guide to grooming and on that video i did a whole section about how i do gel
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nails from home so i will link that in the description box below and i'm gonna go ahead
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and do my nails so i'm all done with my nails i really like the way they look and these glitter
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polishes tend to last a bit longer than normal polishes i have found and i'm i just don't really
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want to have to redo my nails in the next couple of weeks so i'm going to go with gold festive and
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pretty so this is my little outfit of the day i am wearing one of my favorite dresses i wore this a
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lot during the summer but now i'm wearing it in winter time so i've got my cute little cardigan
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from h&m i've had this for forever and i have it buttoned all the way to the top so that my collar
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just peeks out a little bit and the way that i make this work in the winter with boots is wearing
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ankle boots so if you want to wear a brown one which i have like a kind of leather brown boot that
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works too but i wanted to wear these little sock booties which i think are really cute and i wore
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them with opaque tight so it's very hard to tell where the sock ends where the sock booty ends and
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where the tights begin but if i were wearing tights that were just a little bit more sheer which i would
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like to get a pair i don't have a pair then these would look you could like tell where they stopped
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but yeah this is just my outfit of the day so jacob and i went out for a little bit we got a drink
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somewhere we each had a beer it was very nice and the weather has been weirdly warm lately not super
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warm but around 60 which has been super nice because it means you don't have to bundle up you can still
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wear an outfit this is my least favorite thing about winter is that fashion in winter goes out
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the window because everyone is freezing and i love choosing outfits especially during covid when going
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out at all warrants putting on a nice outfit so i was excited to be able to go out today and actually
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wear a nice outfit that was a nice little a nice little thing but i thought before we light the candles
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i would share the story of the dreidel with you guys so the dreidel is the top with four sides and
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each side has a different letter and it's a game that we play on hanukkah so basically what's on the
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dreidel is four letters and they stand for nes gadol hayah sham which in hebrew means a great miracle
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happened there now if you're in israel because all of this happened in israel the dreidels actually say nes
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gadol hayah po there's a different letter a pay instead of a shin which means a great miracle
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happened here which is super cool and i always loved that and so when you travel to israel if you
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ever travel to israel you'll buy a dreidel that has a pay on it because in america you're not going
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to find that so it's really cool anyways so the way that you play the game is that you spin the dreidel
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and if you land on each of the four letters you'll get a certain amount of money from the pot so you've got
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a pot of gold it's usually chocolate gold for little kids and everyone has a little bit of
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their own money and then there's some in the middle and if you land on nun you get nothing if you land
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on shin you have to put one into the pot if you land on hay you get half the pot and if you land on
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gimel you get the whole pot and so it's a really fun game for kids and a game that you really only play
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on hanukkah but the origins of the story of the dreidel come from when jews were being
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persecuted in the land of israel by the greeks they weren't allowed to study torah they were
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forced to eat non-kosher food it was a whole horrible list of things that we had done to us
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in order to get us to assimilate and jewish children still wanted to study torah so what
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they would do is if they heard greek soldiers coming they would hide the books and they would
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pull out their dreidels and their gelt their gold and they would say oh we're just playing dreidel
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we're just playing this game where we spin and we get to play a game together we're not studying we
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would never study that's against the law and it was a way for them to avoid suspicion when there
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were groups of children studying torah so that's where the story of the drill comes from so now it's
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time to light the menorah we're on the fourth night and then jacob and i are going to hang out
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and maybe play a few games so this is what a dreidel looks like you can see it's got four sides
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this one happens to be orange and have pretty art on it but there is a nun a gimel a hay and the shin
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So I am back to making treats for Jacob's colleagues and I'm making a loaf of bread
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for tomorrow which definitely won't be enough for everyone and I still thought it was a nice gesture
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so I am making a loaf of just white bread in here and if you can see here it says 12 13 and that's
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because I am making it I put everything in here and from now 12 hours and 13 minutes from now it
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will be ready to go so that's how I plan this out and it's pretty cool because you can set everything
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up to be ready for the morning if you want to have fresh bread when you wake up so we'll have to
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and that's it for day four I'm so happy you guys have been here don't forget to subscribe to my
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channel if you want to keep following all of the vlogs for vlogica it's the easiest way for you to
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just see all eight of them in a row and of course if you want to see all of my other content don't
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forget to subscribe to my channel and hit the notification bell but that's it for today and
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by the end of hanukkah we'll have little flames galore open your gift