- Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit’a. I often attend your shiurim and I also much appreciate the openness of your questions and answers. My question now. In a shul I often attend they make a special kiddush on the day we light the fifth candle of Chanuka. What is so special about that day and for who does it apply?
A. Although every day of Chanuka is a special time of unique joy and festivity celebration, the fifth day of Chanuka has special meaning specially for the Chasidim of Chabad.
Yet truly, the fifth night holds a special place in many different traditions. On this night, the Rebbes would traditionally host family gatherings called “latke evenings. It's also customary to give additional Chanukah gelt, more than on other nights.
A reason behind the above is that the fifth night marks the first time most lights are lit of the customary eight, thus symbolizing a prominent and changing point in the essential bringing of light into the world, represented by the Yom Tov of Chanuka.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman Horav, Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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