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Hanukkah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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On Chanukah we give the children gelt. Why? ... Appropriately, during Chanukah it is customary to give gelt (money) to children to teach them to increase in charity and good deeds; and to add to the festive holiday spirit.
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The tradition of giving gelt, or Hanukkah gelt coins, to children began in Europe in the Middle Ages. Occasionally the gelt is used to create a pot for a game of dreidels. The dreidel is a spinning top with a different letter on each of its four sides.
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The closest equivalent to an institution of gift-giving on Hanukkah is the Eastern European custom of distributing "Hanukkah-gelt" to the children. However, even this is of recent vintage, and it is hard to find mentions of it before the nineteenth century.
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Guide to Chanukah (Hanukkah): Gelt and Gifts, a Tradition of Giving ... Jewish Gelt - Gifts are the modern incarnation of the tradition to hand out Chanukah gelt, Yiddish for money. There are many different suggestions for the source of this custom.
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It's also traditional to hand out Chanukah gelt (gold or silver coins) to the children and eat foods fried in oil (to commemorate the miracle of the oil). One of the games of chance is played with a dreidel. "Originally the dreidel was not connected with Chanukah in any way.
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