Chag HaBanot 4094 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7855

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7855 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 4091 30 Kislev 7851
Chag HaBanot 4091 30 Kislev 7852
Chag HaBanot 4092 30 Kislev 7853
Chag HaBanot 4093 1 Tevet 7854
Chag HaBanot 4094 30 Kislev 7855
Chag HaBanot 4096 30 Kislev 7856
Chag HaBanot 4096 30 Kislev 7857
Chag HaBanot 4097 1 Tevet 7858

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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