What's the difference in dreidels?
From Wikipedia:
Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (nun), ג (gimel), ה (hei), ש (shin). [...]. However, they represent the Hebrew phrase nes gadol hayah sham ("a great miracle happened there"), referring to the miracle of the cruse of oil. For this reason, most dreidels in Israel replace the letter Shin with a letter פ (pe), to represent the phrase nes gadol hayah poh ("a great miracle happened here");
I think I didn't know there was a difference until about 10 years ago (or, better put: probably never remembered that class in elementary school).
I also have somewhere in my house a dreidel that has on each side a symbol for Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and the logo of the org that made it. In case you had a free evening and had a difficulty to decide which random episode of which show to watch.
Thanks for stepping in Shir!
My cheese omelette was great, btw. Absolutely oozing with melted cheddar with a cheese-pull first bite and everything.
Oh man, my cousin just ran into Chris Evans at the bagel place. "Wouldn't have thought he ate carbs," she says!
Now, I want a cheese omelette. I talked myself into melted cheese, and I have to say I didn't put up much of a fight.
I made arancini out of last night's risotto, and can state with confidence that adding melted cheese makes delicious foods even better.
Ooh. Time to haunt the bagel place, Jesse?
Juliana over the last many years, our Christmas dinner has devolved to what we call “Trader Joe’s appetizers night”. So I support you on that.
Not sure what I’ll do food-wise since my fam doesn’t have a strong tradition there, but probably won’t do anything fancy. But do plan to make lots of cookies.
Hec, Scoma's is still open and does a good cioppino to go, if you decide you need it.
This is extremely useful information!
I don't know this phrase. What does it mean?
It means making a face that looks like: -.-
Unimpressed and kind of blaming the person for doing the thing.
I just saw a MAGA dreidel (shin, hay, gimel, hay) and have decided to hide under a chair for the rest of the year.
sj, one was The Ham Yard and I don't remember the other - it was a hotel restaurant in SoHo. Both were good and not the 400-pound prix fixe that most of the places open on Xmas offer.
I feel you on Kaiser docs, juliana. I feel like their whole system limits dr-patient interaction to my detriment. But they have all my records, when I had different insurance and a different doctor my PCP had trouble finding out what happened at my ER visits, so that wasn't good either.
Aw, Chris Evans and bagels, what a happy thought!
