Hanukkah parties are complete. We'll ask the question: Is there a halacha (Jewish law) that a person has to have a Hanukkah party? Probably still going to your parents, your in-laws, whatever else in the family. Is there a halacha that you have to have a Hanukkah party? And if there is, so what's the type?
So first, I'm going to read you the words of Shulchan Aruch. The way he writes is very clear. Shulchan Aruch writes, as we learned last night, that the Gemara says that these are days, he's saying, of lehodot u'lehalel. Days of thanks and Hallel. They're not days, officially according to Shulchan Aruch, of simcha (joy). That being the case, what he says is that there is no obligation to make a Hanukkah party, so he writes.
However, the rabbis bring from the Rambam, when the Rambam says it's yemei simcha, it's days of happiness. So because of that, the ed, that's one of the sources of the custom to have Hanukkah parties. They also bring that it's been done for a very long time, that people have celebrations of Hanukkah, so it's not something to question.
On top of that, we have the Rema, who says that the real reason that we celebrate parties, da'at Rema (the Rema's view), and the part of the inyan (matter) is because of the fact that during this week—something that we don't talk about, we only talk about during... That's what I'm reading: we're reading the parashiyot (Torah portions) of Chanukat HaMizbeach. It's a time, separately, when the Mizbeach (altar) was anointed at the Beit Hamikdash, way prior to the Hanukkah story. So because of that element, separate from our Hanukkah miracle, because these eight days are days of Chanukat HaMizbeach, of establishing an anointing in Mizbeach, it is an inyan to have a party.
Ultimately, according to Shulchan Aruch, it's a part of the inyan to have a party. Actually, according to Shulchan Aruch, there's no obligation, for sure not. According to him, it's... What we do is, we have these parties, and we add, in... Either we learn what we did last night, or we... We add to the parties, and then it's considered a beautiful thing. And rabbis say, even be titled... Have a great day. Come on.