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Rosh Chodesh L'Banot [1] [2] (Hebrew: ראש חודש לבנות), also known as Chag HaBanot [2] (חג הבנות, 'Festival of the Daughters', [3] sometimes translated as Girls' Day), and in Arabic as Eid al-Banat, [clarification needed] [2] is a holiday celebrated by some Jewish communities in the Middle East on Rosh Chodesh of the Jewish month of Tevet, during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah.
Since only "he" (a non-Jewish father) is mentioned and not "she" (a non-Jewish mother), the Talmud concludes that "your (grand)son who comes from an Israelite woman is called 'your son' (and warned about in the verse), while your (grand)son who comes from a foreign woman is not called 'your son'". Thus, Jewish descent is through the mother. [29]
"Hanukkah is a Jewish festival of lighting lights during the darkest time of the year. Just as on Christmas, we talk about the star of Bethlehem and about Jesus being a new light.
The Hanukkah Story. According to Jewish tradition, after the Jews won back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...
Hanukkah, which is also called the Festival of Lights, starts on the 25th day of Kislev, which is the ninth month of the Jewish calendar. It lasts for eight days and eight nights. It lasts for ...
Some groups also choose to educate young Jewish women in their community about sexuality, self-image, and other women's mental and physical health issues. [ 28 ] Miriam's cup (for the prophet Miriam ) originated in the 1980s in a Boston Rosh Chodesh group; it was invented by Stephanie Loo, who filled it with mayim hayim (living waters) and used ...
Jesus, having been born into a Jewish family more than a century after the events described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, would have celebrated Hanukkah along with his fellow Jews in the first ...
Under Jewish Law, Orthodox Jewish women refrain from bodily contact with their husbands while they are menstruating and for 7 days afterwards, and after the birth of a child. The Israeli Rabbinate allows women to act as yoatzot , halakhic advisers on matters considered sensitive and personal such as niddah .