Chanukah! The holiday, celebrating many miracles can teach us a lesson about standing strong and true to one’s beliefs.
Today, we’re going to bake the coolest 3D dreidel cookie, and it’s going to be so much fun! You can sing along with me, “Oh, dreidel dreidel dreidel, I made you out of dough. When you’re shaped and ready, in the oven you’ll go.” Not only will you get a delicious treat out of it, but you’ll also learn some cool building skills while making the 3D dreidel. These cookies can be used to add some charm to your Chanukah table or as a fun, quick dreidel game. So, let’s get started and have some fun!
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Imagine
Imagine coming to school one day. It’s the day you are meant to have a Chumash test, which you are not so in the mood of because you didn’t study as well as you would have liked to.
But when the bell rings, a pleasant surprise walks through the door. It’s a substitute! Yay! Your teacher is absent so there won’t be any Chumash test today!
During recess, you sit and chat with a few friends. Suddenly Mina suggests, “Let’s go hide from the substitute. We can go to the bathroom downstairs and stay there. She will be so confused, she won’t know where we went! And by the time she finds us we will have wasted a whole lot of class time.”
You don’t think this is a good idea. You think it’s wrong to be disrespectful to the substitute. Plus, she would be worried and it wouldn’t be nice to put her in such a situation.
Delving Deeper
What would you do? Would you tell your friends that you think it’s wrong to hide from the teacher? Would you tell them your opinion even if you know they will disagree with you, and maybe even make fun of you?
It takes a lot of courage to do the right thing when you are the only one who is making the right choice.
During the times of Chanukah, the young children learning Torah also needed a lot of courage. They would hide in caves in order to learn Torah. If the Greeks found them they would be in great danger. So they came up with a brilliant plan: they would be prepared with a dreidel on hand at all times. If anyone would come, they would pretend that they were playing dreidel.
When we play dreidel on Chanukah we can remember the courage that these children had in order to learn Torah. They were just regular kids like you and me. Just as they found it in themselves to have courage and do the right thing, we too can do the same.
Would you have the courage to do the right thing?