Chag HaBanot 4026 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7786

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7786 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 4023 30 Kislev 7783
Chag HaBanot 4023 1 Tevet 7784
Chag HaBanot 4024 30 Kislev 7785
Chag HaBanot 4026 30 Kislev 7786
Chag HaBanot 4026 30 Kislev 7787
Chag HaBanot 4027 1 Tevet 7788
Chag HaBanot 4028 30 Kislev 7789
Chag HaBanot 4029 30 Kislev 7790

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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