We usually just give them out to the kids each year.
Did you know that they were used to secretly teach Torah during the time of the Macabees? The occupying force thought a children's game was being played, while in reality the religion itself was being passed along. (Punishment for the study of Judaism was death.) The dreidel was used in the same fashion during the Nazi reign of terror, to help keep the religion alive.
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Did you know that they were used to secretly teach Torah during the time of the Macabees? The occupying force thought a children's game was being played, while in reality the religion itself was being passed along. (Punishment for the study of Judaism was death.) The dreidel was used in the same fashion during the Nazi reign of terror, to help keep the religion alive.