The dreidel or sevyvon is a four-sided top, and is a game traditionally played during the holiday of Hanukkah / Chanukah.

The connection to the game of dreidel goes back to the time of the Temple when the Jews were prohibited from studying Torah. They needed a way to hide their Torah learning and dreidel was often used as a decoy. When they saw others coming, the Jews would hide their Torah books and take out their dreidels, thus tricking them that they were just playing a simple harmless game.

It is said that the entire world is like a spinning dreidel with everything constantly revolving and changing from one thing into the next - the first becomes last and the last becomes first - from top to bottom and from bottom to top.