In my earlier post today I gave two significant connections to the date: 23 December. Here is the third...

 

The Secret of The Dreidel: http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/1309 or http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/dreidel.html

 

Earlier this evening Clay brought my attention to the 'Dreidel'. He gave the sum of the gematrias for the four letters on its four sides as 359, but as I was checking the gematrias so was he. We both determined that their total gematrias equal 358.

 

        NUN = 50
 
        GIMEL (GIMMEL) = 3
 
        SHIN = 300

 

        HEY (HEH) = 5
 
                50 + 3 + 300 + 5 = 358

 

23 December 2008 is the 358th day of 2008.

 

The upper portion of a 'Dreidel' is a square (four sides) and it spins in a circle like a top. When the diameter of a circle is 358 then the perimeter of a square within this same circle is 1013. 1013 is the prime number gematria of 'LORD JESUS CHRIST'.

 

4 x 358 equals: 1013 + 419 (prime number gematria of 'CHRIST' repeated).

 

358 (4 Dreidel gematrias) + 419 (CHRIST) equals: 777.

 

 

23 December 2008 is the second (or third) day of Hanukkah. Different web sites give different dates: http://www.hjcny.org/heb5cal.html or http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/hanukkah/hanukkah.php