How Did The Dreidel Fool The Greeks?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is David Olowski with our special Khaneka question and answers. Captain Hadock writes, "How did the Jews playing drreidles ever fool the Greeks? Did the Ivon walk in and say, "Oh, it's just a bunch of grown men playing with a top and walk out. They weren't cartoon characters who could be fooled with silly tricks." No, they could not. But that's only because you are much more sophisticated. I don't know if you've ever gone to a casino, but you probably play blackjack, you play poker, you might play um dice, you might use the um uh one-armed bandits. Yeah, the slot machines. But uh there's this one thing called a roulette wheel where you put the little ball and you spin it around and the number comes out. That's just a more sophisticated form of a drrele. Yeah,

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olowski with our special Khaneka question and answers. Captain Hadock writes, "How…
2. 0:34play blackjack, you play poker, you might play um dice, you might use the um uh…
3. 1:07there were all kinds of gambling devices that they had. The gumar refers to a gambler…
4. 1:37so okay, it's a legal casino, you know, it's an illegal dice game. But the Greeks…
5. 2:10gambling. And it was uh no difference than throwing dice, you know, two cubes on the…

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