I’m a Jew . . .
I’m a Jew and I want to share with you a short story about luck.
As a Jew, my family celebrates Chanukah.
( The Festival of Light ).
On the 4th night of Chanukah, my wife made, Latke’s
( Potato Pancakes ) for dinner.
And my two Nephews, Ben and Sam came over for dinner.
And as a tradition we light the candles, say the blessing, eat, and
play a little game of dreydl.
Dreydl is a gambling game of luck and chance.
Not too different from playing roulette, craps, or spinning the big
wheel in Las Vegas.
A dreydl has four sides.
Before each spin you ante up a quarter into the pot.
You spin this top and if it lands on the Nun ( N ), you get nothing.
If it lands on the Shin ( S ), you put a quarter into the pot.
If you get Hey ( H ), you get half of the pot.
And if you get gimel, you win all of the money.
And each player puts another quarter in.
So, Joe, Alan, Ben and Sam pick their favorite “lucky” dreydls.
And they start to play.
Joe was out of money first.
20 minutes later, Ben was out of quarters..
And Alan, he was killing it.
He was sitting on a pile of quarters a mile high.
Ben was complaining that Alan’s dreydl was always landing on the
Gimel.
And sure enough he was right.
Alan’s little wood dreydl was landing on the Gimel over and over again ..
Ben claims that Alan dreydl is rigged.
He said “Alan was cheating!”
So in all fairness, I agreed to test Alan’s dreydl.
I spun Alan’s dreydl 20 times and tracked the results of each spin.
The test was conclusive.
It landed on the winning gimel 16 out of 20 spins.
So, I determined Alan’s dreydl to be faulty.
And I made Alan give back his winnings.
The next morning, I was thinking about this dreydl game and the meaning of Chanukah.
I wanted to repeat my 20 spin test.
What if I was wrong?
What if Alan’s dreydl was just lucky?
So I spun Alan’s same wooden dreydl 20 more times.
I spun it in the exact same corner of the table.
I spun it in the same manner and direction as before.
And all four letters landed evenly.
The luck had left the building.
PS. I was wrong to doubt the luck of this dreydl.
Luck, miracle, or whatever you want to call it IS real.
And like the weather, it comes in waves.
Just remember the acronym for each one of the hebrew letters on Alan’s dreydl.
(Nes Gadol Haya Po). It means “A great miracle happened here”
I wish you good luck this holiday season.
Michael Senoff
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