Chag HaBanot 4032 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7793

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7793 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 4029 30 Kislev 7790
Chag HaBanot 4031 1 Tevet 7791
Chag HaBanot 4031 30 Kislev 7792
Chag HaBanot 4032 30 Kislev 7793
Chag HaBanot 4034 30 Kislev 7794
Chag HaBanot 4034 30 Kislev 7795
Chag HaBanot 4035 1 Tevet 7796

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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