Chag HaBanot 6165 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9925

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9925 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 6162 30 Kislev 9922
Chag HaBanot 6163 30 Kislev 9923
Chag HaBanot 6163 1 Tevet 9924
Chag HaBanot 6165 30 Kislev 9925
Chag HaBanot 6165 30 Kislev 9926
Chag HaBanot 6167 30 Kislev 9927
Chag HaBanot 6168 1 Tevet 9928
Chag HaBanot 6168 30 Kislev 9929

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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