Chag HaBanot 4572 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8333

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8333 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 4569 30 Kislev 8329
Chag HaBanot 4569 30 Kislev 8330
Chag HaBanot 4571 30 Kislev 8331
Chag HaBanot 4571 1 Tevet 8332
Chag HaBanot 4572 30 Kislev 8333
Chag HaBanot 4574 30 Kislev 8334
Chag HaBanot 4574 30 Kislev 8335
Chag HaBanot 4575 1 Tevet 8336

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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