Chanukah Family Farbrengen and Chanukah Gelt

It was customary for the Tzemach Tzedek to have a sort of farbrengen with his family, including his daughters-in-law, on one of the evenings of Chanukah. This was called ”latkes evening.“

This was also the practice of the Alter Rebbe and the Mitteler Rebbe. Among the stories the Rebbes told at this meal were some that were widely talked about every Chanukah, though they had been discussed the year before.

*My father would give Chanukah-gelt on the evening of the fourth or fifth light.

==== Hayom Yom Kislev 28.

*My father = the Rashab. The Rebbe RaYYatz, 6th Chabad Rebbe, talking about his father, the Rashab, 5th Chabad Rebbe

UFARATZTA RABBI SHALOM BER MUNITZ