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Chanukah Gelt: (Heb. Yiddish, lit. "Chanukah money"); Money gifts given on Chanukah
Why we give children money, known as Chanukah gelt, to spend as they wish.
Translation 2nd light of Chanukah, 5749 [December 5, 1988] Your letter from 7 Kislev and the previous ones arrived. Thank you. Regards from your daughter and granddaughter whom I saw today – Monday – and they received a dollar (to give to charity). Just n...
The Rebbe distributes coins to the Yeshiva students on Chanukah. It’s customary to give out money on Chanukah, in what’s known as “Chanukah Gelt.”
A deficit in terms of students, namely if even one child is turned away, can be an irretrievable loss, whereas a financial deficit can always be made good, if not today then tomorrow, or the day after.
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