Chag HaBanot 2836 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 6597

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 6597 begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on .

Rosh Chodesh l’banot (ראש חודש לבנות‎ also known as Chag habanot חג הבנות‎ [Girls’ Day]), and in Arabic as Eid al-Banat, is a holiday, celebrated by some of the Jewish communities in the Middle East on Rosh Chodesh of the Jewish month of Tevet, during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. The Jewish community where the holiday was most preserved is in Tunisia. But there is also evidence that it was also celebrated in Jewish communities in Libya, Algeria, Kushta, Morocco and Thessaloniki.

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Dates for Chag HaBanot

HolidayStartsEndsHebrew Date
Chag HaBanot 2834 30 Kislev 6594
Chag HaBanot 2834 30 Kislev 6595
Chag HaBanot 2835 1 Tevet 6596
Chag HaBanot 2836 30 Kislev 6597
Chag HaBanot 2837 30 Kislev 6598
Chag HaBanot 2838 30 Kislev 6599
Chag HaBanot 2839 1 Tevet 6600
Chag HaBanot 2840 30 Kislev 6601

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Books (paid links)
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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