Tonight is the sixth night of Hanukkah.

The Jewish festival of lights.

It's the time to eat potato latk light the Hanukkah menorah an retell the story of the holiday.

But there's a rabb in Greensburg whose thoughts revolve aroun another Hanukkah tradition.

The dreidel!

As the owner of more than 50 traders, Rabbi Sarah-Ray Perman, is top and collecting this Hanukkah toy on shoes, Tonia Caruso reports.

[Music Plays] [Singing] (♪) I have a little dreidel.

I made it out of clay.

And when it's dry and ready.

Oh, dreidel, I shall play.

(♪ ♪) This is definitel one of my favorites.

This one opens up and stores your matche and has a flint on the inside so that you're ready to ligh your Hanukkah candles.

Most people have see the menorah, the eight branched candelabra that Jewish familie light each night for the eight night of the holiday.

The other object most people associat with Hanukkah is the dreidel.

A dreidel is a top.

Generally, it has four sides t it, with a letter on each side.

It is used in a gambling gam because the idea was that you were not allowed to work or study while the Hanukka candles were burning.

This is the largest dreide I have.

Rabbi Sarah-Ra Perlman is the spiritual leader of Congregatio Emanuel Israel in Greensburg.

But her claim to fame today is that she's top at collecting dreidels.

I have probably close to 500, and I've been collectin since 1968, which was my first tri to Israel and I thought were tiny inexpensive, and I though it would be fun to collect.

[Dreidel Noises] It seems to have originated as a Germa gambling game with a top, and it was called Tung Tun where everybody puts in a coin, a piece of candy, paperclip whatever you want to use, and then you take turn spinning the dreidel and depending on what letter i on, then you follow the directions of the dril and it landed on none.

The four Hebrew letter on the dreidel correspond to the Hebrew statement Nes Gadol Haya Po!

In English, that mean a great miracle happened here or there depending on whether the dreidel was made in Israe or outside that country.

Hanukkah celebrates the Jewis people's victory over the Syrian Greeks who were controllin Israel 2200 years ago.

After three years they managed to retake the Temple in Jerusalem.

And that's again where the stor gets a little murky.

The story we teach our kids is that when they cam into the temple to rededicate it that they found that there was only enough sacred for one day, and it would tak eight days to get new oil.

The miracle happened and it lasted for eight days.

And that's why we celebrat Hanukkah for eight days.

This is the one that spin forever.

One of the first riddle I bought.

If you look carefully, it' the Star of David.

And I helped design this on with an artist in Jerusalem.

Actually, I picked the glass myself and he designed the shape of it.

The word Hanukkah mean dedication, and Rabbi Pearlman is certainly dedicate to collecting dreidels.

But she's not alone.

There actually is a dreidel clu in Cincinnati, and I had a chance to g and speak to them and meet them.

They're an interesting grou of primarily women who have their sor of specialties.

Some collect just wooden ones some collect just plastic ones.

Rabbi Permans collectio could make you dizzy.

[Music Plays] They ar from all over the place.

I have one from the Netherlands that's made out of Delft, China.

I have on that came from Brazil.

I have some that were mad in India, several from Israel, some from the United States.

They're made out of glass, wood plastic, clay.

Of course.

Was chocolate soap, fabric, gold, silver, any kind of materia you can think of.

These two were als new this year.

Rabbi Perma might just be a dreidel maniac.

I'm obsessed by them.

I try not to be but at this time of year, they really become an obsession.

They are definitely spinnin through my head.

This one opens u and it has a container which contains a, turn this into a Hanukkah menorah for traveling with an oi can to remind us of the miracle of the oil and its own little miniatur dreidel, which actually.

Whoops!

Lets see if I can get it spinning.

It spins!

This was the first one I bought that I had seen in Israe when I was in high school.

Lennox made a dreidel as well.

This is my newest one.

Just had to have it with the sk stones and just gorgeous.

Rabbi Perman has stackin dreidels, Noah's ark, dreidels, dreidel frisbees, and giant cardboar dreidels.

She even has on with Braille letters.

If somebody is blind, how would they know if somebod was cheating them at dreidel?

It allows one who's blin to be able to participate fairly in the game as well.

Some contain surprises and inside are things related to Hanukkah.

So you have a little menorah, a plate of potato pancakes latkes, a cruise of all, an oil lamp, a little dreidel and some coins.

This is a little dancer.

She's a ballerin with the letters on her skirt.

She spins better on her hea and on her feet.

They range in price probably from like 10 or $0.15 for a little woode one or plastic one to.

I've seen one that I had though about buying it $1,000 and didn't have the mone then, and is now like $10,000.

She can't put a price on he oldest dreidel and the one she's ha the longest.

This was one I had as a child.

I actually saved i from my childhood, and insid it had been filled with candy.

Long gone!

This is probabl the oldest riddle that I have.

It clearly is handmade made out of brass.

I would gues maybe a hundred years.

I also have dreide paraphernalia, dreidel dishes, dreidel hand towels, tong for picking up a gun, which are jelly donuts that ar eaten in Israel at Hanukkah.

And I'm sleeping on a pillowcas my secretary made for me that has dreidel and wishes me dreidel dreams.

They remind yo of your childhood there toy.

And I think collecting toy makes you remember fun times.

There we go Hey, see, I told you they're fun.

[Music Plays] Part of Rabbi Permans collection has been on displa at the Westmoreland Museum of America Art in Greensburg and the American Jewish Museu in Squirrel Hill.

She is also feature in this month's issue of Pittsburgh Magazine right along Marc-Andre Fleury.

And there was also a story about her unusual hobb in Country Living magazine.

And she's even appeare in a children's book.

The title of that is Four Sides Eight Knights A New Spin on Hanukkah.

And Michael what an amazing lady.

And she knows so much about it.

And big thanks to Iris Sampson who put the story together.

And she brought us.

She brought us th with the candy.

I saved mine but I ate mine today.

You did?

And happy Hanukkah To everyone.

To everyone indeed Thanks Tonia!