Chag HaBanot 6056 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9816

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9816 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 6053 30 Kislev 9813
Chag HaBanot 6054 1 Tevet 9814
Chag HaBanot 6054 30 Kislev 9815
Chag HaBanot 6056 30 Kislev 9816
Chag HaBanot 6057 30 Kislev 9817
Chag HaBanot 6057 1 Tevet 9818
Chag HaBanot 6059 30 Kislev 9819
Chag HaBanot 6059 30 Kislev 9820
Chag HaBanot 6060 30 Kislev 9821

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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