Chag HaBanot 5992 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9752

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9752 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 5989 30 Kislev 9749
Chag HaBanot 5989 30 Kislev 9750
Chag HaBanot 5991 30 Kislev 9751
Chag HaBanot 5992 1 Tevet 9752
Chag HaBanot 5992 30 Kislev 9753
Chag HaBanot 5994 30 Kislev 9754
Chag HaBanot 5994 1 Tevet 9755
Chag HaBanot 5996 30 Kislev 9756

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
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Books (paid links)

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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