Chag HaBanot 6588 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10348

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10348 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 6585 30 Kislev 10345
Chag HaBanot 6586 30 Kislev 10346
Chag HaBanot 6586 1 Tevet 10347
Chag HaBanot 6588 30 Kislev 10348
Chag HaBanot 6589 30 Kislev 10349
Chag HaBanot 6589 30 Kislev 10350
Chag HaBanot 6591 1 Tevet 10351
Chag HaBanot 6592 30 Kislev 10352
Chag HaBanot 6592 30 Kislev 10353

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
by Michael Strassfeld

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