. Jewish ceremonial institutions and customs. he Festivals in the Home character. They are improvised at times outof wood or even egg shells. Because madea feast for children, owing to the youth ful-ness of the hero of the Chanukkah story,parents are in the habit of delighting thehearts of the little ones with presents of allkinds, as Christians are wont to do on Christ-mas. A favorite sport on this feast amongJews during the Middle Ages, mentioned byIsrael Abrahams, was the propounding ofarithmetical Card playing is on thisfeast not only permitted, but actually en-dorsed by Jewish t
. Jewish ceremonial institutions and customs. he Festivals in the Home character. They are improvised at times outof wood or even egg shells. Because madea feast for children, owing to the youth ful-ness of the hero of the Chanukkah story,parents are in the habit of delighting thehearts of the little ones with presents of allkinds, as Christians are wont to do on Christ-mas. A favorite sport on this feast amongJews during the Middle Ages, mentioned byIsrael Abrahams, was the propounding ofarithmetical Card playing is on thisfeast not only permitted, but actually en-dorsed by Jewish tradition as a means ofamusement. A well-known game of chanceis that played with the Trendel (a top), madeeither of wood or metal. According to somethe word trendel is a Judaized term fromthe German Drahen, to turn, and accord-ing to others from Trandel, to , according to the latter derivation,would be the object, hesitating to decide uponwhat side to fall. The body of the top is a 2 Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, p. 3&5-. The Festivals in the Home 129 cube, on each of the lateral sides of which isfound a Hebrew letter. The four Hebrewletters are &WJ the initials of the wordsconstituting the sentence db> rpn ^na w agreat miracle happened there. In playingwith the Trendel, each of the different per-sons engaged in the game puts a coin or nutinto a common pot. The Trendel is spun,and the letter, which comes to view as theTrendel falls, indicates the gain or loss of theplayer. The letters are used as initials ofGerman words. a stands for N, of Nichts, and indicates that the player takesnothing out of the pot. The a stands for G, of Ganz, and indicates that thewhole pot belongs to the player, n standsfor H, of Halb, and indicates that theplayer gets half of the pot. ^stands for St, of Stellen, and indicates that theplayer must put a fixed fine into the game is not Jewish in origin. Nor doall Jews play it. It is confined to only Ger-man-speaking Jews. Ste
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