Chag HaBanot 4704 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 8464

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 8464 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 4702 30 Kislev 8462
Chag HaBanot 4702 30 Kislev 8463
Chag HaBanot 4704 30 Kislev 8464
Chag HaBanot 4705 30 Kislev 8465
Chag HaBanot 4705 1 Tevet 8466
Chag HaBanot 4707 30 Kislev 8467
Chag HaBanot 4707 30 Kislev 8468
Chag HaBanot 4708 30 Kislev 8469

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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