Chag HaBanot 6341 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10101

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10101 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 6338 30 Kislev 10098
Chag HaBanot 6339 30 Kislev 10099
Chag HaBanot 6339 1 Tevet 10100
Chag HaBanot 6341 30 Kislev 10101
Chag HaBanot 6342 30 Kislev 10102
Chag HaBanot 6342 30 Kislev 10103
Chag HaBanot 6344 1 Tevet 10104
Chag HaBanot 6345 30 Kislev 10105
Chag HaBanot 6345 30 Kislev 10106

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: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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