Chag HaBanot 4624 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8385

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8385 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 4621 30 Kislev 8382
Chag HaBanot 4623 1 Tevet 8383
Chag HaBanot 4623 30 Kislev 8384
Chag HaBanot 4624 30 Kislev 8385
Chag HaBanot 4626 30 Kislev 8386
Chag HaBanot 4626 1 Tevet 8387
Chag HaBanot 4628 30 Kislev 8388

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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