Chag HaBanot 4078 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7839

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7839 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 4074 30 Kislev 7835
Chag HaBanot 4075 30 Kislev 7836
Chag HaBanot 4077 30 Kislev 7837
Chag HaBanot 4077 1 Tevet 7838
Chag HaBanot 4078 30 Kislev 7839
Chag HaBanot 4080 30 Kislev 7840
Chag HaBanot 4080 30 Kislev 7841
Chag HaBanot 4081 1 Tevet 7842

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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