0115 - Nun Gimmel Hey Shin on the Dreidel

00:01 Concerning the letters nun, gimmel, hei, shin that are written on the dreidel, I'd like to mention that there is a sicha in Likuti Sichas, Halichot Yod-Beis, page thirty-three concerning Shabbos HaGadol where the Rebbe mentions it, and this is what it says there. In the sicha, the Rebbe says that Tosfos brings in Shabbos daf beis zayin, amud beis, b'nigah Shabbos HaGadol that a nes gadol happened there. Na'aseh bi nes gadol, and the Alter Rebbe shlita brings it also. And the Rebbe goes on to ask, why is there a special nes gadol? What happened on Shabbos HaGadol that the b'chorim, the firstborn of Mitzrayim, fought with their own fathers and the other Mitzriyim to let the Yidden out, and they killed each other. That's a very big nes. And the Rebbe asks in the shi- in the sicha why it's a nes gadol, and he goes on to have a whole biur why it's called a nes gadol. So there, cons-- in Ha'arah five, there's a Shulchan HaGilui on the bottom that it says like this, "Ulehaoyr," one of the comment the Rebbe says, "asher gam b'nigah l'Chanukah," also concerning Chanukah, "amri inshe," people say, "be-tam hamineg," for the reason of the mineg, "shebesivivain charuses oeses nun, gimmel, hei, shin" that on the dreidel are karav dal the letters nun, gimmel, hei, shin. "Ki heim rashei teivos," the Rebbe says, because they are the rashei teivos, the abbreviation of the four words, "nes gadol hayah sham," a big nes was there. And the Rebbe is me'eyar brings

01:27 this in concerning Shabbos HaGadol. That just like on Shabbos HaGadol we say there's a nes gadol, so he says lehaoyr right here also we have nes, nes gadol that we have on the dreidel. I just want to mention that in the first hagadah when the Rebbe was magiya the sicha, the words that were written there said like this, something like this, I don't remember exactly, but something like, "Lehaoyr asher gam b'nigah l'Chanukah tam hamineg shebesivivain charuses oeses nun, gimmel, hei, shin." Then he goes on, "Ki heim rashei teivos nes gadol hayah sham." The second hagadah, the Rebbe added the words, "Amri inshe." The first hagadah didn't say that people say that this is the reason for the letters nun, gimmel, hei, shin because it means nes gadol hayah sham. The second hagadah, the Rebbe added that amri inshe, that people say that this is the reason for the letters nun, gimmel, hei, shin because it means nes gadol hayah sham. So it seems like that originally it seemed like that this was a definite thing, and when it came to the second hagadah, the Rebbe decided that this is, doesn't ha- really have a makar. I'm just saying the pshat, doesn't really have a makar. So it's amri inshe that people sh- say, but that's how it was originally. It didn't say the word amri inshe, and later on, the Rebbe changed it and put in the words amri inshe that people say. But anyway, whichever way it is, from this sicha it seems that

02:40 the nes gadol that happened at Chanukah which are written on the dreidel has a connection to the reason why Shabbos HaGadol is called Shabbos HaGadol because of the nes gadol that happened there. And we have to look into the sicha to see after the Rebbe explains the whole biur why Shabbos HaGadol we consider a nes gadol, a big nes, a special big nes more than a regular nissim, how we could explain that biur concerning Chanukah also, even though they seem to be different in yonim. But the Rebbe does since he's me'eyar here when he talks about why Shabbos HaGadol we say there was a nes gadol, and he brings in that by Chanukah on the dreidel, it says nes gadol. So must be some connection, and we have to work on this to see how the connection is.