Countdown for Pesach
I would like the option for Hebcal to include the number of days until Pesach, between Purim and Pesach.
Bad link from calendar converter to Purim-2025
Bad link from calendar converter to Purim-2025. Error message reads : 500 Internal Server Error Cannot read properties of null (reading '1') Tue Mar 11 2025 16:40:20 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Request 24 Hour clock format
Please advise how to get ALL time presentation in 24 hour format
Thanks for contacting Hebcal.
The time format on the Hebcal.com website is specific to a location. Some countries such as Israel use 24 hour format. Other locations like the United States, Canada or Brazil use a 12 hour format.
If you wish to have more control over how Hebcal events are displayed, we would encourage you to download the Hebcal events to another application (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, etc.) and then format the calendar as you see fit.
Daily parsha
Is there any way to get the day and parsha from the hebrew calendar api? example ג' כי תשא
The only web API that we have that shows the upcoming Shabbat's parasha haShavua every single day of the week is the Hebrew Date Converter REST API.
From the URL you posted, it looks like you are hoping to use the Jewish calendar REST API. Unfortunately, this API does not support looking up the weekly Torah portion every day of the week.
If you wish to use the Jewish calendar REST API to look up the weekly Torah portion, you will need to specify the date of Shabbat (for example, this week 2024-03-15) and not today's day.
You can also use the Leyning (Torah Reading) API to get the full kriyah leyning on Shabbat and holidays, Triennial (optionally) for Shabbat, and weekday readings on Mondays & Thursdays. However, this API would not return the weekly Torah portion on a Tuesday because there is no Torah reading on a typical Tuesday.
Multiple issues regarding the Shabbat Rest API
1. I was surprised to discover that the API returns way more info than the Candle Lighting and Havdalah dates - I managed to extract these dates by iterating through the items array and checking the title_orig field, but is this the intended way?
2. Is there a way to know the next Shabbat info on Saturday? I attempted around 10 PM but got the current info.
Weekly calculations change every Sunday at midnight in the city’s local time zone.
The returned JSON results includes a list of items that have a category will typically include each of the following:
candles– Candle-lighting on Friday or erev chagparashat– Parashat HaShavua, the weekly Torah portionhavdalah– Havdalah, the end of Shabbat
Depending on the week of the year, other items may appear in the results, including
holiday(withsubcat majororminororfast)zmanim(often withsubcatfastfor “Fast begins” or “Fast ends”)
This API uses a similar URL and response format as our full Jewish calendar REST API, but offers less control over the dates and times. If you find you want more fine-grained control over the date ranges, or what kinds of events are included and which are excluded, we recommend using the full Jewish calendar REST API instead.
"Show Hebrew date for dates with some event" shouldn't trigger for Daily Learning
Daily Learning is incredibly helpful. Hebrew dates only showing when it's a Holiday of some sort (Rosh Chodesh, Yamim Tovim, etc - just to not have the overload of dates every weekday) is also helpful.
The current setting "Show Hebrew date for dates with some event" shows even if one has Daily Learning set to show. Would that behavior be able to be tweaked? Or is there a way to add a setting in a way that isn't complicated?
When has/ how often does Purim fall on Pi day?
Hello, With Purim falling on Pi day March 14th, 3-14 this year I am interested in whether there is complete list of when this has happened since the Gregorian calendar was instituted in I believe 1582.
Thirteen times between 1800-2200.
1816
1824
1854
1911
1922
1930
1968
2006
2025
2055
2120
2158
2177
Please add zmanim according to the Baal Hatanya
Thank you for the great service you provide! It would be great to be able to configure a calendar with zmanim according to the Alter Rebbe of Chabad (Baal Hatanya). They are already implemented by KosherZmanim/KosherJava: https://kosherjava.com/2018/11/27/baal-hatanya-zmanim-added-to-kosherjava/
Extending the wishlist:
- Even better would be to configure the parshios and haftaros according to minhag Chabad.
- Even better would be to configure an alternative to JPS for the parsha summaries and link.
- Even better would be to be able to add the Chabad yoma d'pagra (special days) as requested in topic #1454.
30 day months
Hello,
Thanks for the calendar. Have you ever tried making a calendar with 30 day months?
The Beginning 7:11 and 8:3,4. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 8:3 And the waters returned from above the earth, going and returning: and after the end of the hundred and fiftieth day the waters abated. 4 And in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
Encyclopædia Britannica has an excellent introduction to the Jewish calendar. Another well written treatment of the Jewish calendar can be found in Understanding the Jewish Calendar by Rabbi Nathan Bushwick.
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