Chag HaBanot 4691 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8451

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8451 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 4688 30 Kislev 8448
Chag HaBanot 4688 30 Kislev 8449
Chag HaBanot 4689 1 Tevet 8450
Chag HaBanot 4691 30 Kislev 8451
Chag HaBanot 4691 30 Kislev 8452
Chag HaBanot 4692 30 Kislev 8453
Chag HaBanot 4694 1 Tevet 8454
Chag HaBanot 4694 30 Kislev 8455

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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