The eight-day holiday kicks off this year on Sunday evening --- and there's been a long-running debate over when to give the biggest presents
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah may not receive quite the same level of attention as Christmas. But as Adam Sandler pointed out in his hit “Hanukkah Song,” the holiday, which starts this year on Sunday evening, does offer children one advantage: “Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.”
For Jewish parents, however, Hanukkah’s week-and-a-day duration poses an annual conundrum: how to divvy up the gifts? Not only is there no agreement, there’s almost a kind of pride in the confusion generated by the holiday. Indeed, many Jews believe the Hanukkah conundrum speaks to the essence of their faith.
In fact, Hanukkah is a minor event on the Jewish calendar, especially when compared with the likes of Rosh Hashanah and Passover. And while a tradition of giving children money has been a part of Hanukkah for a few centuries, the present-buying mania, to say nothing of the spending on decorations and other holiday items, is a relatively new development — a way for Jewish children not to feel left out during all the Christmas fervor, some argue.
Conversely, Bonnie Taylor, a Boston-area mother of two boys, says she’s all about saving something special for the final night. “We work up to it,” she explains of her approach to Hanukkah’s eight-day conundrum. This year, the big gift is really big — she and her husband are going to surprise the kids with news of a future trip to Disney World.
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