Reply To: what is the origin of chanukah gifts?

DY- I still think that a logical custom cannot be hijacked to be chukas hagoyim. As per IM YD 4:11:3 pleasurable customs can’t be hijacked. It is different then taking off a yarmulke in shul because that is an illogical custom. If the church came out with a delicious, nutritious candy bar and made a religious law to eat it, would we be doing chukas akum if we decide to eat it because it tastes good? We got the idea of such a candy bar from them but it is something good in it of itself. Same thing with chanuka presents.