- Entity: WMG Content Type: Sound Recording
As a result, your video is blocked worldwide.
I copied and pasted that. They enlarged the letters.
I gave my video the title of the song--I Know What You Are. It is from the movie Twilight. Bella has suspicions about Edward; his incredible speed, strength, ice cold hands, white skin. Jacob Black tells Bella a story about The Cold One. So, Bella goes online. She finds information on the cold one--known in Egypt, Persia, India--Vampire.
Bella goes into the forest and confronts Edward. She tells him, "I know what you are." Interesting that she says she knows what he is not who he is. I started thinking about that and the evil in the world. Evil against the Jewish people have come from Egypt, Persia, Germany, India, and other places. So the who isn't as important as what the person is.
Bella also asks Edward how old he was.
Edward--"17."
Bella--"How long have you been 17?"
Edward: "A while."
So my video---I basically features menorahs, dreidels, and a picture with the Shema written on it. The pictures come apart as they turn, but quickly come back together.
Back to You Tube and Warner Music Group--last year I posted a video about a fierce rainstorm we had. I simply disputed the claim of copyright infringement, within minutes the video was up and running, but it was blocked in Germany. My new video is blocked worldwide. Rather than simply restoring the audio with links to iTunes and Amazon.com, I am still waiting for the status of my dispute,. There are plenty of Twilight clips featuring the song I Know What You Are. In my case it seems You Tube is being a little harsh.
They literally added the audio to the Madonna video, but not this one. What's the big deal about a one minute video of turning menorahs, dreidels, and the Shema? As I wrote, there are numerous, numerous clips from the Twilight forest scene. In fact, they include the audio and video. I just used the audio.
I know You Tube does this a lot with WMG, so perhaps You Tube is feeling the heat from WMG. Either that or their content identification software isn't all it's cracked up to be.
So, I keep checking the status of my dispute and it is still pending.
I added this excerpt from an article regarding dreidels. I know the letters mean a great miracle happened there/here. But there's more theory about it:
One 19th century rabbi maintained that Jews played with the dreidel in order to fool the Greeks if they were caught studying Torah, which had been outlawed. Others figured out elaborate gematriot [numerological explanations based on the fact that every Hebrew letter has a numerical equivalent] and word plays for the letters nun, gimmel, hey, shin. For example, nun, gimmel, hey, shin in gematria equals 358, which is also the numerical equivalent of mashiach or Messiah!
Finally, the letters nun, gimmel, hey, shin are supposed to represent the four kingdoms which tried to destroy us [in ancient times]: N = Nebuchadnetzar = Babylon; H = Haman = Persia = Madai; G = Gog = Greece; and S = Seir = Rome.
As a matter of fact, all of these elaborate explanations were invented after the fact.
The dreidel game originally had nothing to do with Hanukkah; it has been played by various people in various languages for many centuries.
In England and Ireland there is a game called totum or teetotum that is especially popular at Christmastime. In English, this game is first mentioned as "totum" ca. 1500-1520. The name comes from the Latin "totum," which means "all." By 1720, the game was called T- totum or teetotum, and by 1801 the four letters already represented four words in English: T = Take all; H = Half; P = Put down; and N = Nothing.
Our Eastern European game of dreidel (including the letters nun, gimmel, hey, shin) is directly based on the German equivalent of the totum game: N = Nichts = nothing; G = Ganz = all; H = Halb = half; and S = Stell ein = put in. In German, the spinning top was called a "torrel" or "trundl," and in Yiddish it was called a "dreidel," a "fargl," a "varfl" [= something thrown], "shtel ein" [= put in], and "gor, gorin" [= all].
When Hebrew was revived as a spoken language, the dreidel was called, among other names, a sevivon, which is the one that caught on.
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