Chag HaBanot 5828 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9588

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9588 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 5825 30 Kislev 9585
Chag HaBanot 5826 30 Kislev 9586
Chag HaBanot 5826 1 Tevet 9587
Chag HaBanot 5828 30 Kislev 9588
Chag HaBanot 5829 30 Kislev 9589
Chag HaBanot 5829 1 Tevet 9590
Chag HaBanot 5831 30 Kislev 9591
Chag HaBanot 5831 30 Kislev 9592
Chag HaBanot 5832 30 Kislev 9593

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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