Chag HaBanot 7104 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10864

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10864 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 7101 30 Kislev 10861
Chag HaBanot 7102 30 Kislev 10862
Chag HaBanot 7102 30 Kislev 10863
Chag HaBanot 7104 30 Kislev 10864
Chag HaBanot 7105 1 Tevet 10865
Chag HaBanot 7105 30 Kislev 10866
Chag HaBanot 7107 30 Kislev 10867
Chag HaBanot 7108 1 Tevet 10868

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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