Hannukah Gelt

Can you guess, children, which is the best of all holidays? Hannukah, of course.

You don’t go to cheder for eight days in a row, you eat pancakes every day, spin your dreidel to your heart’s content, and from all sides Hannukah money comes pouring in. What holiday could be better than that? [ . . . ]

My father coughs.

“H’m . . . Children, come here…