HANUKKAH / CHANUKKAH THOUGHTS
In
Batyah's Blog | on
December, 15, 2014 | by
Ministry Team
As most of you know, I love Jewish traditional symbolism and gemmatria. I believe The Almighty didn’t leave anything to chance and there is a reason and a purpose behind each and every letter and number of the Hebrew Alefbet. This may seem a little off course but stay with me. I hope when I am through you will be blessed by my findings.
One of the items associated with Hanukkah is the Dreidel, which is a four-sided top. There is a Hebrew letter on each side: (Noon) Nun (נ), (Gim-mehl) Gimmel (ג), Hey (ה), (Sheen) Shin (ש) and they are an acronym for Nes Gadol Hey Sham, which means, A great miracle happen-ed there. Those same four letters, rearranged, spell the word Goshen which is where Y’hudah / Judah built the Yeshiva in Egypt. As with B’nei Yisrael/Children of Israel reversal of our circumstances is achieved through the light of Torah