Chag HaBanot 6146 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9906

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9906 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 6143 30 Kislev 9903
Chag HaBanot 6144 30 Kislev 9904
Chag HaBanot 6144 1 Tevet 9905
Chag HaBanot 6146 30 Kislev 9906
Chag HaBanot 6146 30 Kislev 9907
Chag HaBanot 6148 1 Tevet 9908
Chag HaBanot 6149 30 Kislev 9909
Chag HaBanot 6149 30 Kislev 9910

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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