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Planned

iOS widget for watchOS 10 Smart Stack please

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

It would be great to have a HebCal widget that we can add to a watchOS 10 Smart Stack for Apple Watch. This would enable Apple Watch users choosing not to use the HebCal complication (for example, if they are using the Snoopy face) to still see the HebCal info. Thanks for considering!

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

And another way to calculate it is to convert to Gregorian and then use a date difference website:

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?hd=19&hm=Tamuz&hy=5744&h2g=1

19th of Tamuz, 5744 = Thu, 19 July 1984

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?hd=24&hm=Tishrei&hy=5784&h2g=1

24th of Tishrei, 5784 = Mon, 9 October 2023

Then visit the Days Calculator: Days Between Two Dates calculator

From and including: Thursday, July 19, 1984
To and including: Monday, October 9, 2023
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=10&d1=09&y1=2023&m2=07&d2=19&y2=1984&ti=on


Result: 14,327 days
It is 14,327 days from the start date to the end date, end date included.

Or 39 years, 2 months, 21 days including the end date.

Or 470 months, 21 days including the end date.

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Completed

Please reinstate the readings lists for Chol Hamoed dates of yom tovim AND list of readings for weekday minyanim (for non yom tovs) for Diaspora users.

JNNLT 3 years ago updated 2 years ago 6

Hi - I use Hebcal when I daven and it has been essential to accessing the correct readings during minyan and during chol hamoed, such as for Sukkot. The page used to pull up the readings list for each date (ie, Monday, Thursday and Shabbat readings and similarly for Chol Hamoed for Sukkot, Pesach, etc.) Not sure why this was stopped, but it is an essential and unique feature that many of us rely on. Could you please put it back so that the date pulls up a listing of the readings for that date, not just the readings for the upcoming Shabbat? And if the reading would be different for Diaspora than for Israel that week, could you please post the diaspora readings list as well like you used to include? Thank you and Moadim L'simcha.

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and mo'adim l'simcha!

We're happy to continue to provide Torah Readings for holidays. You'll find them posted on the holiday page, for example

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/sukkot-2023#reading


For the Israel version, visit this page:

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/sukkot-2023?i=on#reading

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Answered

time given for onset of yarzeit is considerably later than shabbos of two nights ago - kindly explain

rmm0535 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 3

described in header

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Thank you for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar. Moadim L'Simcha! We wish you a very happy Sukkot.

Yahrzeit always begins at sundown and continues until sundown on the day of observance. It is customary to light a memorial candle at sundown as the Yahrzeit begins.

If a Yahrzeit begins on Friday night, it's customary to light the yahrzeit candle before Shabbat begins. If a Yahrzeit begins on Saturday night, it is customary to light the yahrzeit candle after Havdalah.


If you subscribe to our email Yahrzeit reminders, you will receive a message one week before the anniversary. This message does not specify what time to light a yahrzeit candle. It does also include an optional calendar reminder, typically set for 16:30 local time on weekdays and 20:00 local time on Saturday night.

To avoid any possibility that someone might light a yahrzeit candle after Shabbat begins, we will make a change to our calendar reminders to have them start earlier (14:30 local time) for any yahrzeit occurring on a Friday.

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Answered

nekudot on the date conversion page

bellzw 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 1

When I ask to see the date with nekudot, I see

י״ג בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשפ״ד

when I ask for today (13 Tishri 5784).  However, if I change nothing but turn off nekudot, I get

י״ג תשרי תשפ״ד

Note that the bet before the year's abbreviation has disappeared.  Why should the form of the date change? I apologize in advance for my ignorance.

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Thanks for letting us know! There are multiple ways to transliterate the name of the holiday and both spellings are considered acceptable.

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Not a bug

candlelighting on saturday

Sarah P. 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 5

Hello,

I want to use the parameter c=on to display shabbos times, but it displays  candlelighting on saturday and havdoloh on sunday. Maybe because my calendar takes sunday as the first day o the week.

Any solution?

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Thanks for posting that. From looking at the code snippet you sent, you are using the JSON Jewish calendar API.

The problem is in your code. This API returns dates and times using the standard ISO 8601 format. Dates will look like 2015-05-22T17:11:00-03:00


Check your application code and confirm that you are interpreting dates correctly with respect to the genonameid location you are using 

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Under review

loading speed

Sarah P. 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 3
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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal and the FullCalendar integration. We're sorry to hear that the page is very slow.

We have an experimental approach that uses the Hebcal JavaScript APIs (instead of the REST API) to avoid fetching event data over the Internet. You still need to load the FullCalendar and Hebcal javascript files, but once they're loaded the page won't need to fetch additional data.


Try this approach to see if it improves your page speed?

https://gist.github.com/mjradwin/7145590367c8b88a194f8da5e9a8d325

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Not a bug

Bug - Month of Tishrei

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

Hi, there is no mention to the month of Tishrei in the calendar. It simply goes from Elul to Cheshvan. Please see at https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&maj=on&min=on&nx=on&mf=on&ss=on&mod=on&i=off&d=off&D=off&o=off&a=off&c=off&s=off&M=off&ykk=off&molad=off

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

To add a bit more detail,

תִּשְׁרֵי (transliterated Tishrei or Tishri) is the 7th month of the Hebrew year, is 30 days long, and corresponds to September or October on the Gregorian calendar.


The holiday that occurs on the 1st day of Tishrei is called Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah is a major holiday.


The first day of Tishrei is not considered Rosh Chodesh. Rosh Chodesh is a minor holiday that occurs at the beginning of every month on the Hebrew calendar. In the case of Tishrei, the major holiday of Rosh Hashana takes precedence.


Later in the month we observe Tzom Gedaliah on the 3rd, Yom Kippur on the 10th, Sukkot (from the 15th-21st), and Shmini Atzeret (on the 22nd) and Simchat Torah (on the 23rd in the Diaspora).


For more info, read The Month of Tishri – Judaism 101.