Chag HaBanot 7795 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 11555

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 11555 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 7792 30 Kislev 11552
Chag HaBanot 7793 30 Kislev 11553
Chag HaBanot 7794 30 Kislev 11554
Chag HaBanot 7795 1 Tevet 11555
Chag HaBanot 7796 30 Kislev 11556
Chag HaBanot 7797 30 Kislev 11557
Chag HaBanot 7797 30 Kislev 11558
Chag HaBanot 7799 1 Tevet 11559

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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