Parshat Chukat : Triennial Cycle
Are the readings for Parshat Chukat correct the triennial cycle, Year 2? I see that there was a mistake in the original planning document that was later correct on Hebcal, but I wonder if perhaps this was overlooked. The kriyah for Year 2 is shown as beginning at the beginning of the full parasha, which I don’t believe is correct.
Thanks for your careful attention to Hebcal's Torah readings. We can confirm that yes, the readings are 100% correct.
The pattern for Chukat-Balak for the current 3-year cycle is Together-Separate-Separate. This maps to Variation C in A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah published by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988. Here is the relevant excerpt from the 1988 paper:
Yes, there is a document called Modification of the Triennial Cycle Readings for Combined Parashot in Certain Years written by Rabbi Miles B. Cohen, 2020. However, this responsa applies to Variation A, not Variation C.
Lastly, the Miles Cohen luach agrees with both Hebcal and the conservative responsa:
Shabbat shalom!
Viewing or amending pre-2020 Hebcal dates
Hi,
I uploaded my yahrzeits in 2019 but now I need to amend/add to my list. I spent considerable tie collating them and would need to start again from scratch if I deleted the current Hebcal in my Google calendar. Is there any way of seeing the hebrew dates so that I don't have to start again?
Hebrew title for a recurring birthday event
Currently, you allow creating a recurring Hebrew birthday event. But you force the user to accept the title you give with the text "'s 19th Hebrew Birthday". I don't like it because it is displayed on my device from left to right, and also because it is an English title when all the events in my Google calendar are in Hebrew. Can you give the option to choose the text, or at least choose whether the text will be in Hebrew or English?
If you subscribed to annual email reminders, you can search for an existing Yahrzeit + Anniversary Calendar by email address here:
https://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit/search
If you did not subscribe by email, but you created a Yahrzeit list and then subscribed in your calendar app (e.g. Apple, Google, Microsoft Outlook, etc), then you can follow instructions on this page:
https://www.hebcal.com/home/632/how-to-make-changes-to-a-yahrzeit-anniversary-calendar
Day information slightly lacking.
Hi, this is a brilliant website. One suggestion: more information about current day. When I go to Hebcal, I want to know the parsha and whether there's anything addition like shabbat mvarchin. Today is shabbat mvarchin but it is not mentioned. I have to look at Rosh Chodesh list, manually to find out when it is.
We have added Mevarchim Chodesh when it occurs to the homepage and Hebrew Date Converter
January 2026 is missing
Trying to create the calendar for 2026 but it starts from Feb. January is missing
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
If there are no events in a month at the beginning or end of a year, the month will appear blank. This can happen in January, for example, when you adjust th calendar settings to disable Rosh Chodesh.
If you wish to see January 2026, be sure to have the Rosh Chodesh and/or Special Shabbatot box checked as follows:
You have an excellent "custom calendar" generator that has a square for every day of the year. It would be great if the entries from my "yartzeit list", also on this website, can be included in my custom calendar. Thanks for a great product!
You have an excellent "custom calendar" generator that has a square for every day of the year. It would be great if the entries from my "yartzeit list", also on this website, can be included in my custom calendar. Thanks for a great product!
Thanks for the suggestion. To merge a Jewish holiday calendar and a personal Yahrzeit/Anniversary calendar into the same view, we recommend importing your Hebcal events into a separate calendar app.
We provide step-by-step instructions for importing into Apple, Google, Outlook and other calendar apps.
Hi, thanks for contacting Hebcal.
We do not offer an iPhone app for Hebcal just yet. We do offer two options that could be useful to you:
1. Jewish holiday downloads for iPhone
https://www.hebcal.com/home/77/iphone-ipad-jewish-holidays
2. Hebcal app for Apple Watch
"isHoliday" property
Hi
Could you extend the json response for the
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?cfg=json&date=2024-05-14&g2h=1&strict=1
so it will contains a property says "isHoliday" or something like that?
I believe if you know to point that is Yom HaAtzma’ut, you will know to mention true or false for "isHoliday".
Just to clarify, 29 Elul (for example) is also consider as holiday, since it's half day work (non-business day).
thanks
for details about holidays, we recommend you instead use the Jewish Calendar API
https://www.hebcal.com/home/195/jewish-calendar-rest-api
you can control the event types by specifying exactly which holidays you want to see, and when parsing the result you can use the category and subcat fields to understand what types of holiday events the API returns
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