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in hebrew it's called megiddo.e staging ground where the armies of the righteous and the wicked gather for the final showdown. >> soon the world as we know it will come to an end. and that we'll live in a paradise earth where we won't have to die or get sick. >> but while some focus on what they believe might happen here in megiddo, the site itself gives us a nearly unprecedented glimpse back to some of the major battles of biblical times and helps us understand where those modern ideas of armageddon came from. >> so for me megiddo is a key for understanding the history of this country. >> reporter: our guide here is israel finkelstein, a renowned israeli archaeologist who's directed the excavations at megiddo for 20 years. >> so perched on top here you can see from all sides that it's such a strategic vantage point. >> it's -- it controls the most important highway of antiquity in the ancient near east between egypt and mesopotamia. >> this stunning hilltop in northern israel was once a city larger than ancient je

(speaking hebrew).ssed praised honored exalted, extoled glorified adored and lauded be the name of the holy blessed one beyond all earthly words and songs of blessings, praise and comfort. to which we say amen. (speaking hebrew) may there be abundant peace from heaven and life for us and all israel, to which we say amen. (speaking hebrew). may the one who creates peace on high bring peace to us and to all israel, to which we say amen. >> god of compassion, be near to all who call upon your name, in the course of their daily life, work and service. you call and gift us for work that brings us joy, and embodies concern for our neighbors. make us glad and grateful for the strength to serve you and our neighbor. weave together the work of every hand and the commitment of every heart, for we recognize our interdependence, our responsibility to one another and the mutuality of our destiny. let us pray to the lord. praying together, lord, make us instruments of your peace where there is hatred let us sew love.

just as jews don't read the jewish scriptures, the hebrew scriptures without the togo exegesis. you see the scriptures through the lens of the rabbinical exegesis that have been developed over centuries which was very much concerned to mitigate extremely violent passages in the hebrew bible. we have all got violent passages in our scriptures because we are violent people and our scriptures reflect us. but in the muslim world too nobody just picked up the koran and picked out a few passages from jihad. i think this caution of reading the scripture in the light of all this traditional exegesis actually held extremist opinions at bay. why is there so much terrorism in the muslim world now? because i said earlier muslims have had a much more difficult passage to modernity than we have. number one, they were a great world power and when the british and the french came in and subdued them and their empires, they were reduced overnight to a dependent block and that goes very deep. humiliation is often a huge cause of violence not just in islam but other parts of the world, a sense of c

jesus participated in both the aramaic and hebrew culture and its literatures, as well as the kind of hellenistic greek that he needed to do his business and his ministry. >> narrator: despite its greek and roman influences, sepphoris was a thoroughly jewish city. and jesus remained faithful to his religious heritage when he left nazareth to become a preacher. >> ( dramatized ): then he began to speak, and taught them, saying, "do not think i have come to abolish the law or the prophets. i have come not to abolish but to fulfill." >> what we learned from the gospel stories is not that jesus was not jewish. quite the opposite. he's completely embedded in the judaism of his time. >> was jesus a jew? of course jesus was a jew. he was born of a jewish mother in galilee, a jewish part of the world. all of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples-- all of them were jews. he regularly worshipped in jewish communal worship-- what we call synagogues. he preached from jewish text, from the bible. he celebrated jewish festivals. he was born, lived, died, taught as a jew. nowadays, there ar

i taught myself hebrew, biblical hebrew. i'm learning more about that. >> keeping busy. >> yeah. >> though collins seemed interested in more peaceful pursuits, he also let us know he was staying sharp should there be any trouble in the future. >> every now and then when i would talk to brian collins he would talk about his martial arts he crafted over the time of him being incarcerated, and on certain occasions he would just break out into these weird moves that, you know, he said were a hybrid style that he kind of created and came up with. >> a few days later collins had another check-in with dr. matias and he had already set a new goal. he wanted to transfer to general population where he would have even more freedom. >> population. >> population. why you do that? >> well, in the time i've known you you've either been in lockup or here. and so the idea of you running around population doing your thing, working a job, hanging out with your friends -- >> it's kind of a big step for me. >> it's kind of like mind-boggling. if

enormously learned, he was concerned with latin and greek and studied hebrew mysticism. here, jan van eyck depicts the most powerful figure at the burgundian court-- chancellor rolin-- kneeling before the madonna. in such works, a saint usually presented the donor-- the person paying for the painting-- to the virgin and child, but rolin decided to appear before the madonna without benefit of introduction. so van eyck linked the figures with romanesque architecture and a view of the heavenly city and landscape beyond realized by the almost magical glow of the oil medium. nicholas rolin was the chief minister of duke philip of burgundy for nearly 40 years. he became one of the most powerful men in europe. at the height of his career, he made a spectacular donation to charity. [bell ringing] the hotel-dieu or god's hostel, a hospital for the poor was founded by chancellor rolin in beaune, close to the duke's capital at dijon. the initials of nicholas rolin and his wife guigone de salins and their coats of arms appear in the stained glass and the floor tiles of the buildings

he said this is what it said in the hebrew bible. love your enemies, do good to them. love and justice for those who have been oppressed. you have to admit that gay people have been oppressed in our society. >> stephen: i've done it myself. proudly so. >> we want justice for our gay brothers and lesbian sisters because we think that god loves them intensely. he wants good for them. >> stephen: that's a tall order, sir. thank you for coming by. tony campolo, the book is red- letter christians, a citizens guide to state and politics. we'll be right back. thank you, sir. >> how soon before the fight should i take my asthma medicine for it to really take effect. >> 20 minutes probably. >> until it dissolves. >> yeah. if you took it now or... you'd be fine. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. my guest tonight says that president bush's actions have been motivated by unresolved feelings for his father. so now we all know the iraq war, just closure. please welcome jacob wiseberg. ( cheers and applause ) you didn't have to get up. that's awfull

one of pride and it is i could be a thug but i'm a proud tug because my history says i'm proud to hebrew here i represent the legacy of who my people are in participating with who you're people are and i'm open to understanding who our people are because of the ethnic studies who have taught me who any people have been that's mind blowing the more i learn about myself and the history the more open i am to learning about you and your history and how we collectively contribute to the wholeness of who we can be going forward and our children that's what is so power here president fewer i appreciate you carrying this forward some days we have to go a little bit fanatical to move the needle thank you president fewer going a little bit fanatical about ethnic studies to be able to move the needle and not letting go that's what is so awesome you get tired and worn down from the nos i'm so tired of being in a room off nos thank you for fighting that battle of no to get to day and this room i will for certain be saying yes to ethnic studies (clapping.) >> commissioner, i want to say no with me com

had a bar mitzvah and i got time, and i'm we'll see if this ancient mind connect can process the hebrew>> it's great to license. and jonathan is the biggest clippers fan ever -- >> jonathan? hello, more importantly, baby, go, clippers! >> there you go, jonathan and will all of our fans watching with steep steep steep. >> pleasure to be here. >> that's our show. thanks war watching, and as always keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation first with eula biss and the grammy nominee billy child. that's next time. we'll see you then. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> the following kqed production was produced in high definition. >>> and their buns are something i have yet to find anywhere else. >> i'm not inviting you to my house for dinner. >> breaded and fried and gooey and lovely. >> in the words of arnold schwarzenegger, i'll be back. >> they knew i had to ward off some

. >> reporter: the revelation that he is a hebrew transforms his life. >> your parents never told youtruth? >> the year of your birth, there was a prophesy that our leader would be born to liberate us. that leader is you, moses. >> steve wrote this and what he is writing is a story of revolution. and that's a story that can resonate no matter what the time. >> i love creating universes or words. the baffling majesty of egypt. i thought, that's a real challenge. >> reporter: first challenge, getting a commitment from bale. an a-lister after "the dark knight." >> one day, i said to him, i want you to consider this idea of playing moses. >> it was such a ridiculous idea. >> this gigantic silence, i think he muttered something. >> like, some about instruct, like, different take on it or just sandals and the beard moses? and he went, san ddals and the beard moses. i went, wow. get my head around that one. i didn't know anything about him except for that he was charlton heston. >> behold his mighty hand. >> reporter: "the ten commandments" was a four-hour epic with a confident moses, embold

hebrews but terrorist in te-- >> you should concentrate yours on flighting. >> reporter: moses begins but blood brothers with ramsey, besting him on the battle field. until -- the revelation that he's a hebrew transforms his life. >> your parents never told you the truth. >> what truth? >> the year of your birth was a prophecy that our leader would be born. that leader is you. >> reporter: as egypt's self-proclaimed god. >> i'm not saying no. >> reporter: the moses ant aganist often received. >> those people in great positions of power also harbor a great deep well of fear. >> reporter: ever since the casting was announced, scott has been castigated by some for hiring white actors to play the two lead egyptians. in response, he's noted the impossibility of financing a nine-figure epic without an internationally bankable star such as bale and points to his casting of gasan massoud in "kingdom of heaven." >> you look at the existing -- he has red hair that certain pharaohs would have had, green eyes and light skin and riddley and i had a lot of discussions what the movie stands to say i

. >> this ring here has a hebrew inspection -- in scripture and inside, a heart.t's very beautiful. we do not find many such things because the not sees melted such things down for the metal and to erase the traces of their crimes -- the not sees -- the nazis melted such things down for the metal and to erase the traces of their crimes. >> philip always stops by when he visits poland from the united states. it is always a very emotional moment, and he is always served the same noodle soup. the current generation's grandfather hid young philip and his brother. >> keeping us here on his farm underground, and they brought us food and a pale -- in a pail like they would do for the milk so they could hide it and nobody should see. they did this for us until we were liberated. >> for a long time, the younger generations remained unaware of their grandfather's heroism. he never talked about it and died young. then, philip showed up and told of his bravery. >> how did i react? i was really proud of my grandparents for making such a decision. it was clear that it meant the

of a nation founded on the micahples of the book of and the versus george washington quoted to the hebrewongregation in newport 223 years ago. he wrote, "may the children of the stock of abraham who dwell in this land continue to enjoy the goodwill of the other inhabitants while everyone shall sit in safety under his own fine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid." notions of jewish religious freedom, of safety in your own land, of being treated with dignity and respect in your own community. not only led to the creation of the modern state of israel as the homeland for the jewish people, but it also formed the bedrock of the united states of america. since our very founding. these values were captured in poetords of a young jewish named emma lazarus when she wrote, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. words captured forever in the statue of liberty are things that are great -- in grade in your dna and become ingrained in the dna of america. not only did millions of jews easternrom programs and millions of faiths and cultures from

been a visiting professor at, among other institutions, harvard law school, tel aviv university, the hebrew university of jerusalem and the university of paris. his books include, the regulation of international trade, the wto system, law, politics and legitimacy, and al outline of a phenomenal of rights. professor howse has been a frequent consultant or adviseer to agencies including the interamerican development bank. professor howzee is a member of the board of advised years of the nyu center of law and philosophy and serves an the editorial advisory board of the london review of international law, the journal of world investment and trade, transnational legal theory, and legal issues of economic integration. he is cofounder of the new york city working group on international economic law, and is a former ihouse resident. please join me in welcoming him to international house. [applause] >> thanks very much. it's a pleasure to be here at the university of chicago to talk about my book, "leo strauss, man of peace." this is obviously the university where strauss taught in his mature years

presumably instead of mazel tov, a hebrew phrase for "congratulations."molotov cocktail is a homemade explosive. >>> from "usa today," kentucky rejects $18 million in tax incentives for noah's ark park. they cite the separation of church and state. and talk about chump change in the $1.1 trillion spending bill. it's 1,600 pages. so there are a few odd things being buried deep in there. "the hill" points out this little nugget. two kinds of birds can no longer be declared endangered by the federal government because that would create extra hurdles for oil and gas drillers. bit way, it also blocks a pay raise for the vice president. sorry, joe biden. >>> and president obama helped spread the christmas cheer at a toys for tots event yesterday. he even compared himself to a pretty famous holiday character. >> ho ho ho! >> that's a pretty serious ho ho ho. >> ho ho ho! i'm the big elf. i'm like will ferrell. >> yeah, kind of sort of not really. that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> i'm joined by bob franken. he didn't have the same outfit or an

that's hebrew for congratulations. so like you get a job promotion or birthday, mazel tov can also mean good luck. so mazel tov 101. a few days ago, a letter surfaced written by scott walker back when he was a county executive. it was a letter he wrote in response to a request that the county host a menorah lighting ceremony outside the milwaukee courthouse for hanukka. and scott walker wrote in reply in this letter, thank you for your letter regarding the menorah display. yes, we would be happy to celebrate the eight days of hanukka here at the courthouse. then he told the guy who he should contact to organize the lighting of the menorah. yay. a happy and festive hanukkah in milwaukee. then scott walker politely signed the letter, thank you again and molotov. molotov? maybe it was just his computer autocorrecting? but let it be known on this night of all nights even if he did mean mazel tov, granting the hanukkah celebration, is it's not really a mazel tov situation. it's more of a happy holidays thing, not mazel tov.

as i don't understand arabic, he talked to us in hebrew. alway palestinian extremist. but what about israeli extremists i've never been inside these settlements that the israelis have been building all over the territories. so we decided to visit a leader of the settlement movement and someone david interviewed at the right wring rally in jerusalem. >> changing times here. 28 years, the majority of the people in the west bank are now jewish. and this was our goal. we are so desperate for peace. but the first step is to stopping the devil. only after stopping the devil, of course, the blocks, then we can move, of course. and then we will have the opportunity to work together and look for the solution. >> just to tell you, they say stop the occupation. that's what they say. they remove the occupation. >> part of the thinking is that everyone said like children, you be first, you be first. let's try together. >> when the palestinians would stop the terror, i will be the fighter to have the palestinians human rights. but we are making a comparison between our rights and th

it wasn't some kind of ancient greek to do with nemesis following hebrew spirit he had an army twice the size of the russians. he had beaten the russians twice before. he had no idea he would kill so many of his men. he gave himself enough time to get back. he made one tragic error after that battle. >> why did he do that? >> because he fought this inconclusive battle. he thought the russian battle was on the other side of the hill. it is impossible for him. he could have pulled it off. >> you compared him to caesar. you also compare him to george washington. >> that's right. caesar was his own personal hero. he wrote a book about caesar. it doesn't break new ground, but it shows his immense reading. >> was the idea -- church hill was an eloquent writer. made a living as a writer as you do. but napoleon didn't do that. any of that. >> he wrote and he had nothing else to do. history isn't always written by the victors. he had lost, but his book came the bestseller of the 19th century. >> in the world? >> even more than "uncle tom's cabin." he managed to write. >> when he had time, he

that removes what are defined as national rights from all israeli citizens who are not jews, makes hebrewonly national language and has been denounced by the israeli attorney-general as causing a "deterioration of the democratic characteristic of the state"? will he make it clear that the statutory, repressive removal of citizenship rights on the basis of religion will turn israel into an apartheid state? to the, what i say honorable gentleman, the right honorable gentleman, is one of the reasons i am such a strong supporter of israel is that it is a country that has given rights and democracy to its people, and it is very important that that continues. when we look across the region and you look at those indexes of freedom, you see that israel is one of the few countries that tick the boxes for freedom, and it is very important that it continues to do so. >> norman baker. >> i am sure that the prime minister will share my enthusiasm for e.on's confirmation this week that 300 jobs are to be created for the construction and maintenance of a new offshore wind farm, many of which will be in

>> i think he said in relationship to the egyptian empire and the egyptians were holding the hebrews -- slaves. >> in today's terms? >> then the drone thing, it makes it sound like the big bad guys are the ones who use drones. of course that would be the u.s. and the west against terrorism. i don't like the comparison. put it that way. >> do you believe that is fair to what moses did? >> no. he certainly wasn't thinking about drones. he was a freedom fighter, no doubt. but a freedom fighter called by god to go up against an empire that was keeping the hebrew people enslaved. >> i guess when you hear the word terrorist now. because you're saying drones. you're looking in the past, not looking at now. it doesn't seem to people he was alluding to how they would have seen him then. he was describing modern terms. >> he also referred to moses as a schizophrenic. when you go back to the director, he talked about religion being the greatest source of evil. this is a few years ago. but religion being the greatest source of evil now. i don't think they're going after religion here and i think

nation founded on the principles of the book of mica ende versus george washington quoted to the hebrewbraham who came to this land continue to merit and enjoy the goodwill of the other inhabitants for everyone live in safety under his own vine and victory and there should be none to make him afraid. the central jewish notion of religious freedom of safety in your own land, of being treated with dignity and respect from your own community not only led to the creation of the modern state of israel is the home of the jewish people but also form the bedrock of the united states of america since our very founding. these values were captured in the words of a young jewish follower named to -- when he wrote give me your tired, your poor, your humble masses yearning to breathe free. these words capture forever and the statue of liberty are among the things that are ingrained in your dna and have become ingrained in the dna of america. not only did millions of escape from eastern europe received awards and millions of all faiths and cultures all over the world and continue. the truth is, the tr

when i asked at the african hebrew israelite community, which has been squatting in israel's desert sincelate 1960s, if you thought he arrived in zion, he said to me, emily, i was born into a detroit ghetto. if i wasn't here i would be dead. when i talked to another man, thomas glaze, a jamaican american activist and author who fights for america sat something very smart, which i am going to share with you. i asked thomas was the lamb looks like in his imagination. time is a myth, emily, he said you i know i said feeling childish. but the search interests you, does not? yes, of course. as i am a click of a ticket totalview. freedom and total respect for everybody across class levels. not this democracy where people can't read and make choices about government. i am not just speaking on gay people issues. for justice for the poor and the island would really be paradise. that is what i envision. that sounds beautiful i said. but then, emily, the search for blessedness has to start within. that is what a roster told me right before he said to kill the gay i said. so use a part of what he sai

the hebrew is played by a guy famous for making meth.nd the queen is someone more tied to aliens than egyptians. >> you see what you would sort of expect to see what happened 50 years ago in hollywood, which is a but of white people slathered in bronzer, that is going to be difficult for people to follow. >> the book is better than you imagined. he says exodus sends a dangerous message. >> that whitewashing biblical characters was used by white empirialists to further the idea that black equals bad, and white equals holy and good. >> the director cast it as a simple business decision, telling the magazine i can't mount a film of this budget and say that my lead is mohammed so and so from such and such. i'm just not going to get it financed. instead, joel edgerton from australia was cast as the egyptian pharaoh, ramses, the man backing the film, tweeted since when are egyptians not white? all i know are. with $140 million budget at stake and twitter flooded with the hash tag boycott movie, they are under pressure to expand their view. >>

rimonim is hebrew for pomegranate. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: it's a fruit that containsy seeds. it demonstrates unity, being together. there are positive prayers in judaism that say may we have as many privileges as a pomegranate has seeds. the name was chosen after a strong fruit that symbolizes goodness and with the hope that we will always symbolize goodness in this facility. >> rimonim is not the only israeli prison whose name holds a special meaning. there is only one prison in the entire nation that houses female inmates. its name is neve tirza, which means oasis of strong women. >> the most striking thing about neve tirza is that it is the only female prison in israel, and it has 215 beds. to give you some perspective, the state of virginia has the same population as israel and six times as many female inmates. >> we have all types. long sentences, short sentences, minors, old women. everybody is here. every kind of crime you can think of, murderers, sex offenders, drug dealers, white collar. >> you have white-collar criminals with someone who has committed murder

i mean, he comes on the scene as a prophet straight out of the hebrew bible.ean, at his first appearance in his hometown synagogue, he quotes the prophet isaiah. >> ( dramatized ): the spirit of the lord is upon me. he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind to let the oppressed go free. >> jesus goes into the synagogue. he takes the scroll of isaiah. he is literate-- of course he can read-- and he is a scholar. he can find his way around an unpointed hebrew scroll and find exactly the place he wants, and reads it and comments on it. jesus is a scholar. jesus is rather like luke, actually. >> narrator: tradition claims that the author of "luke" was a traveling companion of the apostle paul, and probably lived in one of the cities where paul founded a christian community. luke wrote a story about jesus but he also wrote the book of acts, the story of the growth of the early church and its spread throughout the empire. >> ( dramatized ): it's very important to remember that the gospel of luke is only one-half of a major

and akkadian is a semitic language closely related to hebrew and arabic. so that was much easier for us. keach: the tablets contained specific records of day-to-day living. the world's oldest known medical text, with remedies of snake skin, turtle shell and figs. a detailed map of the ancient city of nippur. even the price of tin in the twenty-first century b.c. historian marvin powell. in this line we see the amount of silver written across here. and in this line we see the amount of tin that it buys. and after this we also find the name of the individual, a chap called lucin from nippur, who was engaged in the tin trade. keach: names and places, professions and materials from the ancient world come to life. the tablets offer astonishing details of a way of life that ended thousands of years ago. but the sumerian symbols held more than a story of business. they preserved centuries of hymns, poems, myths -- even an early version of the biblical tale of noah and the great flood. writing has helped reveal the history of ancient sumer. in the heartland of the

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. >> in hebrew, it's noah smuel. >> at a time rabbi learned a little boy in his congregation, noah poznerrned the youngest victim of the ramp page. >> knowing he was just barely six years old. >> it's a rip-off. he was such a great little guy, you know. and his life was robbed from him. >> the shooting at sandy hook elementary thrust rabbi prior and reverend kreven into the national spotlight. >> these darkest days of our community shall not be the final word heard from us. >> the mats kerr transformed them both into advocates for stricter gun laws in america. >> it connected me in ways to other communities and other people who had been impacted by gun violence and made me more aware of that impact in a real emotional human level. it's a ticket we have been hand anded and we have a responsibility to put into the game, you know. and that's the newtown card, you know. so we didn't ask for it, but we were served it. so, i feel that that's like a commandment from god for me to do something with that. >> how are you doing? >> the rabbi and the refer end were acquaintances before, but a shared

. >> --which is the hebrew jonah, like "jonah and the whale" was a prophet. >> seth: yeah. >> and i thought laughter ] of course. [ cheers ] yeah. really -- yeah. >> seth: d and d and the torah don't combine enough. i'm glad -- i'm glad they're finally getting together. >> it's -- it's been waiting for me, really, to bring those worlds together. >> seth: you mentioned crying while playing d and d. you are also -- i heard that you cry during movies but also you cry during comic book movies, which i don't think are known as to be making people cry. >> yeah, i mean, i'm a crier in general. >> seth: yeah. >> but i, i love -- that got a "whoo." right? [ laughter ] >> seth: crying, general crying is more popular than d and d. [ laughter and applause ] just general tears. >> i -- i like superhero movies. >> seth: yeah. >> and i often am moved to tears. usually, the notion of conflict, of being different and trying to fit in. >> seth: mm-hmm. >> and the sort of ultimate struggle of the superhero universe that's created. >> seth: yeah. >> so i am that lady who cries, like, in superhero movies. cryin

christian bale in "exodus: gods and kings commitment confirms that whatever else it is, the story of the hebrewsa ripping good yarn. as the holidays approach, i'll have lot more movies to talk about. >> osgood: critic david edelstein. now to bob schieffer in washington for look what's ahead on "face the nation." good morning, bob. >> schieffer: good morning, charles. we'll have the new york city police commissioner bill bratton and president of the naacr cornell william brooks. >> osgood: we'll be watching. next week here on "sunday morning." artist margaret mead a closer look. sweetie, i'd love a hazelnut. mom? dad? big uncle wayne? hot chocolate. green tea. uh, decaf, cuz. wow. i'm dying for an herbal tea. the all new keurig 2.0. that's all i crave.e that's where this comes in. only nicorette gum has patented dual-coated technology for great taste. plus nicorette gum gives you intense craving relief. and that helps put my craving in its place. that's why i only choose nicorette. >> osgood: we leave you this december morning at mammoth hot springs in yellowstone national park. i'm charles osgoo

. >> the four-sided spinning top is inscribed with the hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hey and shin.cle happened there. the dreidel and its letters have a very different meaning for kids today. >> so we each have a number of gelts or pennies or whatever. >> you spin it and depending on what you land on, if you land on nun you get nothing. >> i like to watch how the dreidel spins. >> i like getting chocolates ♪ >> but beyond the fun and games this simple top has serious place in jewish history. legend has it that the dreidel was used as a ploy during the days when greeks ruled the holy land and students were foragedden from studying their religion. >> the guard came in the children knew they were to put away the manuscripts and they took out the tops. the guards said, what's going on here? where's all the studying? we're not studying, we're playing. the tops were part of the miraculous happening that led to hanukkah. >> rabbi eliyahu safran knows a thing or two about dreidels. he owns more than a thousand. >> who do you think cleans these shelves? >> that's a good question. you do. >>