Occasionally, the Hanukkah gelt is also used to create a pot for “a game of Dreidel. The Dreidel - is a four-sided top with a different letter on each side. The letters or the first initials of the words in the phrase Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, refer "a great miracle happened there." This game is played by all children, parents, and close relatives until someone wins all of the gelt.
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According to the First Book of Maccabees in 142 B.C.E., that is 22 years after the Temple was recaptured, Simon (Maccabee) - the surviving son of Matthias, brought independence to the Jewish people. Syria’s King Antiochus VII stated to Simon - “I turn over to you the right to make your stamp for coinage for your country.”
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Throughout the subsequent years of the Hasmonean period, the first Jewish coins in history were supplied. One of the coins imprinted by the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus Matityahu, " the seven-branched menorah " was designed on one side and " the table of Shew Bread" on the other, both symbols of the restored Temple.
In 1958, the Bank of Israel introduced a program of striking special memorial coins to use as Hanukkah gelt. In a dazzling perceived change to link the modern world with the ancient history of our Jewish people, the Hanukkah coin designed the same menorah that had appeared on the Last Maccabean coins.
Every single year since 1958 (except 1964-71), the Hanukkah gelt coin has honored a Jewish community all over the world. In 1972, a silver coin was hit showing a 20th-century Russian menorah, a clear message to the world about Soviet Jewry. On the 200th, the anniversary of the United States' Declaration of Independence, the 1976 Hanukkah coin presented a colonial American menorah.
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Thus, Children of all ages receive chocolates as Hanukkah gelt and also use it to play Dreidel.