Chag HaBanot 6116 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9876

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9876 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 6113 30 Kislev 9873
Chag HaBanot 6114 30 Kislev 9874
Chag HaBanot 6114 30 Kislev 9875
Chag HaBanot 6116 30 Kislev 9876
Chag HaBanot 6116 1 Tevet 9877
Chag HaBanot 6117 30 Kislev 9878
Chag HaBanot 6119 30 Kislev 9879
Chag HaBanot 6119 30 Kislev 9880

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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