Chag HaBanot 5380 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9140

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9140 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 5378 30 Kislev 9138
Chag HaBanot 5378 30 Kislev 9139
Chag HaBanot 5380 1 Tevet 9140
Chag HaBanot 5380 30 Kislev 9141
Chag HaBanot 5381 30 Kislev 9142
Chag HaBanot 5383 30 Kislev 9143
Chag HaBanot 5383 1 Tevet 9144
Chag HaBanot 5384 30 Kislev 9145

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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