November 30 Error?
November 30 is showing "Mevarchim."
Should it be "Machar Chodesh?"
Thanks
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The Hebrew Date Converter page for Sat, 30 November 2024 correctly lists the Torah portion as Parashat Toldot
If you look at the Parashat Toldot detail page, you will see that indeed it already lists the special Machar Chodesh Haftarah
Problem with Subscribed Calendar Link
Created a subscribed calendar link which originally contained only Yahrzeit's. I have now started adding birthdays and anniversaries. The name has changed to Hebrew Anniversaries. However the subscribed link ends with name Yahrzeit.ics. This is weirding me out. Happy to try to copy over my calendar and create a new link but don't want to do one event at a time. Any solutions?
Thank you for corresponding with us privately, the information you provided was very helpful. We've fixed the issue on the Hebcal website, and Arizona ZIP codes now correctly follow the Daylight Saving Time rules. Our apologies for the inaccuracy.
Hello. What happened to the audio line by line recording of the aliyah? This was helpful!
https://www.hebcal.com/home/498/torah-trope-chanting-audio-leyning
In addition to providing details about the weekly Torah readings, Hebcal makes it convenient to listen to the audio of a professional cantor chanting Torah trope.
If you visit the Hebcal parsha pages from a larger display (desktop/laptop computer or a tablet), you can click the speaker icon to visit Sefaria‘s embedded PocketTorah audio.
The Sefaria native mobile app does not currently support the PocketTorah audio, so the Hebcal speaker icons are not displayed on mobile phones. The audio is displayed only on Sefaria website and depends on a larger screen, such as a desktop/laptop computer or a tablet.
Please add credit to the two Jewish authors behind the Hebcal algorithms
The Hebcal UNIX program was a C reimplementation of the calendar code found in the Emacs text editor. That was written by Prof. Edward Reingold, who wrote a book on calendar algorithms with Nahum Dershowitz. I think it would be showing kavod to include both their names under the "About" page on Hebcal.org, as they are the ones who contributed the core technology. Here is a page with more information:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EdwardReingold
Thanks,
~Tomer Altman
Thanks for the suggestion. We updated our "about Hebcal" page as follows
Hebcal was created in 1992 by Danny Sadinoff as a Unix/Linux program, derived in large part from the Emacs 19 calendar routines by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz.
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
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