Chag HaBanot 4165 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7926

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7926 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 4162 30 Kislev 7923
Chag HaBanot 4164 30 Kislev 7924
Chag HaBanot 4164 1 Tevet 7925
Chag HaBanot 4165 30 Kislev 7926
Chag HaBanot 4167 30 Kislev 7927
Chag HaBanot 4167 30 Kislev 7928
Chag HaBanot 4168 1 Tevet 7929

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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