Many Jews look at the dreidel and see Jewish heroics that date back to the Chanukah era when Syrian-Greeks forbade Jewish study.
According to legend, Jews would mask their study by gathering and playing with a spinning top, a popular gambling device. Should Syrian-Greek soldiers burst into the forbidden study groups the troops would see a den of gamblers instead of a group of lawbreaking scholars.
- This design is available for the 4" x 4" hoop.
- The sewn out size is 3.89" W x 3.35" H with 6,840 stitches.
- This design has 8 thread colors.
You must have an embroidery machine to utilize our machine embroidery designs. We sell machine embroidery designs as electronic media (software) only. We do not sell embroidered "patches" or hard copy patterns.