Chag HaBanot 6038 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9798

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9798 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 6035 30 Kislev 9795
Chag HaBanot 6035 30 Kislev 9796
Chag HaBanot 6037 30 Kislev 9797
Chag HaBanot 6038 30 Kislev 9798
Chag HaBanot 6038 1 Tevet 9799
Chag HaBanot 6040 30 Kislev 9800
Chag HaBanot 6040 30 Kislev 9801
Chag HaBanot 6041 30 Kislev 9802

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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