Chag HaBanot 6203 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 9963

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 9963 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 6200 30 Kislev 9960
Chag HaBanot 6201 30 Kislev 9961
Chag HaBanot 6201 30 Kislev 9962
Chag HaBanot 6203 1 Tevet 9963
Chag HaBanot 6203 30 Kislev 9964
Chag HaBanot 6205 30 Kislev 9965
Chag HaBanot 6206 30 Kislev 9966
Chag HaBanot 6206 1 Tevet 9967

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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