Chag HaBanot 5999 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9759

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9759 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 5996 30 Kislev 9756
Chag HaBanot 5997 30 Kislev 9757
Chag HaBanot 5997 30 Kislev 9758
Chag HaBanot 5999 1 Tevet 9759
Chag HaBanot 6000 30 Kislev 9760
Chag HaBanot 6000 30 Kislev 9761
Chag HaBanot 6002 30 Kislev 9762
Chag HaBanot 6002 1 Tevet 9763
Chag HaBanot 6003 30 Kislev 9764

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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