Chag HaBanot 7126 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 10886

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 10886 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 7123 30 Kislev 10883
Chag HaBanot 7124 30 Kislev 10884
Chag HaBanot 7124 1 Tevet 10885
Chag HaBanot 7126 30 Kislev 10886
Chag HaBanot 7127 1 Tevet 10887
Chag HaBanot 7128 30 Kislev 10888
Chag HaBanot 7129 30 Kislev 10889
Chag HaBanot 7129 30 Kislev 10890

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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