We watched a video about men singing and dancing telling about Hanukkah also known as the Festival of lights.
We watched them light the Manora, one each night for eight days.
We watched them play the game of dreidel.
Each player starts out with 10 or 15 coins (real or of chocolate), nuts, raisins, candies or other markers, and places one marker in the "pot." The first player spins the dreidel, and depending on which side the dreidel falls on, either wins a marker from the pot or gives up part of his stash. The code (based on a Yiddish version of the game) is as follows:
- Nun–nisht, "nothing"–nothing happens and the next player spins
- Gimel–gants, "all"–the player takes the entire pot
- Hey–halb, "half"–the player takes half of the pot. If there are an odd number of markers, usually the player takes the extra one too.
- Shin–shtel ayn, "put in"–the player puts one marker in the pot
We also talked about the fallen angels before Noah.
After class we had church.
We sang Christmas Songs: Joy to the World, Angels We Have Heard on High, and etc.
Brother Tom preached on Enjoying the Holidays rather than enduring them.
We per-took of the Lords Supper and were dismissed.
I ate turkey chili with bread at Panera Bread
Purchased a carrot cake muffin to take home.
I visited with my sons and took my Christmas presents to my sons for we are having a Christmas Pizza dinner tomorrow.
