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# Emet LeYakov OC 670 suggests that the practice began when the parents gave the children money to give the teachers who taught Torah, so that Torah was supported on Chanuka. In order that the children not feel bad, the parents also gave them a portion of the money to keep. | # Emet LeYakov OC 670 suggests that the practice began when the parents gave the children money to give the teachers who taught Torah, so that Torah was supported on Chanuka. In order that the children not feel bad, the parents also gave them a portion of the money to keep. | ||
# Siftei Chayim (Moadim, vol 2. p. 134, Rabbi Friedlander) explains that since the Greeks outlawed learning Torah and children couldn't learn, after the war parents had to bribe them to learn again. As a way of remembering that we give children gelt today. | # Siftei Chayim (Moadim, vol 2. p. 134, Rabbi Friedlander) explains that since the Greeks outlawed learning Torah and children couldn't learn, after the war parents had to bribe them to learn again. As a way of remembering that we give children gelt today. | ||
# Binat Yisrael explains that the more we give towards a holiday the more we cherish it. | # [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=3863&st=&pgnum=122 Binat Yisrael (Rabbi Yisrael Shapiro, p. 63a)] explains that the more we give towards a holiday the more we cherish it. | ||
# Rabbi Flug quotes that after the war the winners would distribute the loot to the soldiers and poor. Giving gelt is a way to commemorate winning the war. | # Rabbi Flug quotes that after the war the winners would distribute the loot to the soldiers and poor. Giving gelt is a way to commemorate winning the war. | ||
# After the war, Antiochus allowed Israel to mint their own coins, so they would distribute these coins around Chanuka time in order to remember the Chanuka miracle of the war. </ref> | # After the war, Antiochus allowed Israel to mint their own coins, so they would distribute these coins around Chanuka time in order to remember the Chanuka miracle of the war. </ref> | ||
