100% natural cotton fabric with a versatile, plain weave You can have the design in the listing photos, custom printed onto your choice of the following fabrics: FAT QUARTER: 1/4th yard cut of fabric, measuring 18" long by half of the width of a yard (varies based on selected fabric) The width of a yard will depend on the type of fabric you choose, please scroll down to see the respective width for each fabric option. BY THE YARD: One yard of fabric measures 36" long, and multiple yards will print as a continuous length. A portion of every sale goes to the independent artist who created the design. Our unique on-demand process means you can find the perfect design and have it custom printed onto the right fabric type for your project. ◆READ BELOW FOR DETAILS ABOUT OUR FABRIC AND CUT OPTIONS.◆Īll of our fabric is sustainably printed in Durham, North Carolina using non-toxic inks and ethically sourced materials. A more ancient Jewish symbol? The menorah.Custom printed onto the fabric type of your choice By-the-Yard, Fat Quarter cut, or Swatch. It turns out, the Jewish star is actually a newer Jewish symbol than you might think. This is not really a Hanukkah symbol but a Jewish symbol that gets a lot of play during the Hanukkah season, perhaps to differentiate Hanukkah from Christmas in countries where that holiday is widely celebrated. Read: Eight Jewish fried foods from around the world. Sephardic Jews enjoy a plethora of other fried treats like bimuelos and sfenj. The two most popular in the Ashkenazi community are latkes - a fried potato pancake - and jelly donuts (in Hebrew: sufganiyot).
In Israel, where the Hanukkah miracle took place (check out this map of the Hanukkah battles) the final letter on the dreidel is pey instead of shin for nes gadol haya po (“a great miracle happened here.”)īecause of the miracle of the oil, it is traditional for Jews to eat fried foods on Hanukkah. This stands for the Hebrew phrase nes gadol haya sham, which means “a great miracle happened there” - alluding, of course, to the miracle of Hanukkah. Around the world, most dreidels have the following four letters: nun, gimmel, hey, shin. The letters on the dreidel are also symbolic. When soldiers were approaching, they would quickly hide their books (or, back then, scrolls) and take out the tops and pretend to be involved in a game.
The usual story told about the dreidel is that when Jewish learning was forbidden, the Jews would study Torah in secret. The dreidel is a four-sided top with a different Hebrew letter on each side. The central flame is called the shamash candle. Most hanukkiahs mimic this design with a central branch flanked by four branches on each side, the eight side branches symbolizing the eight days that the oil miraculously burned as well as the eight days of celebration. The Temple menorah had seven branches, a central branch flanked by three on each side. The Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, is designed to evoke the menorah that stood in the Temple 2,000 years ago. These are the primary symbols of the holiday: The holiday is celebrated with feasting, special Hanukkah songs and lighting the Hanukkah menorah (called a hanukkiah). Hanukkah is a winter holiday that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greeks and the rededication of the Temple, as well as the miracle that a little cruse of oil, designed to burn for only one day, kept the Temple menorah alight for eight whole days until more sanctified oil could be produced. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate