THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DREIDEL 🤫🕎 We’re all taught that the letters Nun, Gimel, Hey, and Shin stand for "A Great Miracle Happened There." But that’s actually a myth. 🤯 The Dreidel is a direct knock-off of a 16th-century German gambling game called "Teetotum." The letters weren’t holy acronyms—they were instructions for winning the pot: N = Nichts (Get Nothing) G = Ganz (Take All) H = Halb (Take Half) S = Stell ein (Put In) The "Miracle" story was a "backronym" invented later to make the ga