Did your parentls let you gamble on Chanukah?

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    TheGoq
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    Every year in addition to playing dreidel for money we kids would play poker at the chanukah party, i remember one chanukah when i was young and i was losing badly at dreidel my moms friend took me aside and played poker with me and let me win she really lifted my spirits but back to the original point is gambling part of chanukah?

    #836557
    popa_bar_abba
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    We always gambled on chanuka. We lit lots of oil lamps, close together, on tables covered in oil and flammable stuff. And left them unattended.

    And then we gambled that the house or yeshiva wouldn’t burn down.

    #836558

    Please see this related thread:

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/kvitlach-muttar-or-assur

    (even if you aren’t interested in the discussion, you may get a chuckle out of my [ignored] requests on that thread for various corrections and edits.)

    #836559
    BaalHabooze
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    I play Modi’in roullette. It’s like Russian roullette except you have to eat many many many latkehs, and gamble your health, sanity, and ultimately your ego. But it’s fuuuuun!!!

    #836560
    ED IT OR
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    baal habooze, I love ur username!

    when I was a bachur the only thing we gambled was bottles of vodka at a “dreidel” game (ever wondered why the dreidel spins)

    gambling with money is definitely wrong if not ossur,

    but poker without a buy in sounds good

    pba, can I put a bet down?

    #836561

    My parents dont let me gamble ever since last Chanukah. We deprately miss our beloved cat “Matzah Ball” :'(

    #836562
    Ctrl Alt Del
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    Doesn’t gambling assur you from eidus?

    #836563
    Peerimsameach
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    Haha avadeh gambling is not part of chanuka…. But who cares it fun and when done with your family it keeps us teenagers off the street…but ya gotta be careful. If your playing foreal be prepared to lose alot of gelt.and yea parents dont encourage this. If the kids play it themselves, and you can’t steer them away from the game properly don’t freak. But it’s not a good habit

    #836564
    Peerimsameach
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    Baalhabooze!!! Hhaha was I in the same group of friends as you???…

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