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Rosh Chodesh readings are missing

etayluz 2 years ago updated 2 years ago 2

Hi Michael,

It is my understanding that the Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Torah reading will be held on Wednesday 06/29/22 and Thursday 06/30/22.

However, since the Rosh Chodesh readings were removed from the weekday csv's - I don't see any reference to them on this website any longer.

Could you kindly prepare another csv that has all of the Rosh Chodesh readings?

A diaspora, Israel, and triennial version would be great.

below is the link to the Rosh Chodesh reading schemes for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Tov_Torah_readings#Rosh_Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh

When Rosh Chodesh falls on a weekday, Numbers 28:1–15 is read. When Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbat, Numbers 28:9–15 is read as the Maftir.

The individual readings are as follows:
Rosh Chodesh (weekday)[40]
Reading 1: Numbers 28:1–3
Reading 2: Numbers 28:3–5 (the third verse is re-read)[41]
Reading 3: Numbers 28:6–10
Reading 4: Numbers 28:11–15

Rosh Chodesh (Shabbat)[42]
Readings 1–7: Regular Torah reading
Maftir: Numbers 28:9–15
Haftarah: Isiah 66:1–24

Note: when Rosh Chodesh occurs on a Sunday, the regular Haftarah of the preceding day is replaced with the Machar Hachodesh (literally, "tomorrow is the new month") Haftarah, I Samuel 20:18–42.[43]

I have suggested this before - and I would like to suggest again that all the csv's be consolidated into a single csv for simplicity's sake. Now, if someone only wants to only see Shabbat readings - then you have a filter for Shabbat readings right inside the excel sheet. This makes simple sense to me and it would also lead to a full and comprehensive single document.

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

hi, thanks for using Hebcal. We implemented Rosh Chodesh Torah readings in our CSV downloads several months ago.

Please see this page

https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/#download

And note this excerpt:

  • The Full Kriyah CSV files contain Torah & Haftara readings for Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh, holidays and fast days.
  • The Weekday CSV files contain Torah readings for Mondays & Thursdays (and Shabbat mincha) when those days don't co-occur with one of the events above. In other words, these files are intended to be mutually exclusive with the Full Kriyah Shabbat/holiday files.


If you download the fullkriyah-5782.csv file you will see the following starting at line 671:

29-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 1 Numbers 28:1-28:3 3
29-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 2 Numbers 28:3-28:5 3
29-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 3 Numbers 28:6-28:10 5
29-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 4 Numbers 28:11-28:15 5

30-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 1 Numbers 28:1-28:3 3
30-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 2 Numbers 28:3-28:5 3
30-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 3 Numbers 28:6-28:10 5
30-Jun-22 Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 4 Numbers 28:11-28:15 5

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Jewish women Mikva Time .

joojoo1020 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 2

I am developing an App that helps the user keep track of the time of their mikva. is there any python lib or REST API I could use 

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Thanks for contacting Hebcal.


Sorry, I don't think we have any APIs that can help with this project.


Good luck!

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i need someone to develop the Jewish calendar to nokia feature phone . can someone recommend one ? liav

liav 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 1

i want to implement the Jewish calendar in our nokia phones . need a mobile java developer . please recommend someone. liav ron +972523669780 liavr@hye.co.il liavron@gmail.com

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Thanks for contacting Hebcal.

I am sorry but we lack the expertise to assist with your project. Good luck!

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no candle lighting

markmatatovdesigns 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 1

Is there a way to create a calendar without the candle lightning and havdalah times?

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

If you'd like a calendar of only holidays (and no candle-lighting or havdalah times), you can visit this page and then be sure to delete the name of the city from the "Candle lighting times" input field

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

Our apologies that we don't yet offer an iPhone or Android app. We're working on an iPhone app that we hope to release before Rosh Hashana 5783. Stay tuned!

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Limit on API calls

יוסף 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 1

Hello everyone, I have a question Is there a limit to how many API calls can be made in one minute to the system?

I have an automation process that converts a foreign date to me and it is important for me to know that everything will work and not break due to the load of API calls

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Thanks for using the Hebcal APIs!


You may receive a 429 “Too Many Requests” error if your client makes more than 90 requests in a 10-second window.

Many of our APIs support batch queries, and those should be used when possible to avoid hitting our rate limits. We also generate proper HTTP Cache-Control and/or Expires headers so your client can optionally use a caching proxy to avoid actually incurring load on our APIs if you end up fetching the same information multiple times. By design Hebcal APIs are stateless and idempotent.

If for some reason you are running up against the rate limits can you please share your use case with us? If you have a use case we haven't considered we would love to hear about it!

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Incorrect Parasha on sundays

davidamiga14 2 years ago updated 2 years ago 2

I'm making a calendar app that displays zmanim and the parasha of a selected date, I'm using the shabbat times REST API to get the parasha and it works great with the exception of sundays, where I get the parsha of last week.

Take this call for example https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&m=45&gy=2022&gm=05&gd=01&lg=es&latitude=19.4349023&longitude=-99.2069489

The parasha of that day should be Kedoshim, but the API is giving the parasha of last week Ajarei Mot.

What am I doing wrong?

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using the Hebcal APIs, and thanks for the bug report.

You aren't doing anything wrong - it looks like you found a bug in our timezone logic!

We believe we have fixed the issue and deployed a change. Please take a look and let us know if it seems to be working correctly now.

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yartzeit mistake

Chavie 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 1

hi. I have created a yartzeit calendar containing 11 names, and downloaded it to my google calendar. everything works well, EXCEPT, one of the names populates on the wrong date! I have deleted it from the yartzeit calendar and then entered it again, I have updated the yartzeit calendar, I have deleted the calendar from my google calendar and readded it, and this one yartzeit always comes back as the wrong date! I am really at a loss as to what the next steps are to fix this problem. Thank you. 

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Yahrzeit calendar

Sindi 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 3

I want to make a yahrzeit calendar.  I have Hebrew month and date only (no Year)

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. You can create a personal list of Yahrzeit (memorial) and Yizkor dates, Hebrew Birthdays and Anniversaries for 20+ years at this page


https://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit

Once you've created your personal calendar, you can print it out, sign up for free annual email reminders, and/or download to your favorite calendar app.


If you know the Hebrew but not the Gregorian date, use the Hebrew Date Converter to get the Gregorian date and then come back to the Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar page.

If you don't know the Hebrew year, it may be difficult to get a correct date conversion. 

The rules for calculating birthdays and yahrzeits are a bit complicated and depend on the actual attributes of the Hebrew year they occurred in -- was it a leap year (Adar vs. Adar I vs. Adar II)? Short Kislev? Long Cheshvan?


You can read more about the complexities here: https://www.hebcal.com/home/54/anniversaries-adar-cheshvan-kislev

This is why we recommend you put in the actual date of the birth or death (e.g. original year) and not the current year.