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WIX

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

How to add Hebcal features into a WIX website. I only see WordPress options. Afterall WIX is based in Tel Aviv Ir HaKodesh ;-) Please help

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. Yes, you can embed code on a Wix site using the "Wix Editor: Embedding a Site or a Widget" instructions:

https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-embedding-a-site-or-a-widget

To display a dynamic calendar grid, we'd recommend using fullcalendar.io + hebcal. There are some instructions here to get you started:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/1223/display-a-jewish-calendar-on-your-website-with-hebcal-fullcalendar-io

To display Shabbat times, you can use the JavaScript generated by this tool:

https://www.hebcal.com/link?lg=s&geo=geoname&zip=&geonameid=2643743b=18&M=on&m=

Shabbat shalom!

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I have my app in Ios and I will love to includ Hebcal to it, How I can do that??

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

I have an app for Jewish blessings and I will like to include some function that Hebcal provide, like sabbath candles and date conversion. I already have a library for the android version, but I am looking for Ios. May be possible to use Hebcal and how can be done??

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for writing to us!

If you're building an iOS app, you may be able to use the Hebcal Swift implementation. This offers holidays and date conversion but not yet candle-lighting times and doesn't require internet because it's built as a native Swift library


 https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-swift

From an iOS app you are also free to use Hebcal web services for things like candle-lighting times. You'll find a list of all of our web service APIs here:


https://www.hebcal.com/home/developer-apis

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Unable to select Candle lighting times

jjenkins 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 2
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Biblical year not appearing

Miguel Ângelo 2 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago 1

I used to go on the calendar, and i'd go to the settings.

I removed Rosh Chodesh and Minor Holidays (no problem)

I changed to the Gregorian Year (no problem)

Then I enabled the "Show Hebrew date every day of the year" button. SO FAR SO GOOD!

So I click Create Calendar... and It shows that it is - for example - 21st of Cheshvan... and that's the problem. The hebrew year isn't showing at all.

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

We recently modified the behavior of the "Show Hebrew date every day of the year" and "Show Hebrew date for dates with some event" checkboxes on the Custom Calendar page to display the Hebrew year only for the 1st of each month.

This change keeps the text on each calendar day as brief as possible, but still displays the Hebrew year once each month.

So, for example, this week you will see the following:

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purim

Moshe Gross 2 years ago updated 2 years ago 2

In the Json output it displays Erev Purim as Major but Purim as Minor

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for finding this bug! We have fixed the issue and Erev Purim is now listed as minor in the JSON output.

https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=on&year=2022&month=3

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reinstall Hebcal - how it’s displayed on my iPhone

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

I had to reinstall Hebcal and are having difficulty in how it’s displayed on my iPhone calendar. I would like the Hebrew month and date shown in small numbers below the English one

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, if you'd like to use the iPhone's built in Hebrew calendar, you can follow these instructions:

  1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Tap on Calendars.
  3. Tap on Alternate Calendars.
  4. Tap on Hebrew.
  5. Your Calendar app should now reflect those changes.

If you'd like to use our calendar feeds to display the Hebrew date (for example to display י״ד חֶשְׁוָן instead of 14 Cheshvan) then you can visit https://www.hebcal.com/ical/ and subscribe to the Hebrew calendar dates (Hebrew) feed.

https://download.hebcal.com/ical/hdate-he.ics

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shabbat Hanukkah

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

the haftarah for Shabbat Hanukkah is incorrect. Only the regular haftarah for Shabbat Miketz appears.

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Incorrect Reading for November 6 (Toldot)

etayluz 2 years ago updated 2 years ago 2

In fullkriyah-5782.csv the following is shown for the Haftorah of 06-Nov-2021 Parashat Toldot

06-Nov-2021

Toldot

maf

Genesis 28:7 - 28:9

06-Nov-2021

Toldot

Haftara

Malachi 1:1 - 2:7

However, given that Rosh Chodesh Kislev begins at sundown on 05-Nov-2021, the proper reading for the special Rosh Chodesh Haftorah should be: Maftir: Numbers 28:9–15
Please see more here: Rosh Chodesh

Similary, In fullkriyah-5782.csv the following is shown for the Haftorah of 05-Mar-2022 Parashat Noach:

05-Mar-2022

Pekudei

Haftara

I Kings 7:51 - 8:21

05-Mar-2022

Pekudei

Haftara for Sephardim

I Kings 7:40 - 7:50

However, given that Rosh Chodesh Adar begins at sundown on 04-Mar-2022, the proper reading for the special Rosh Chodesh Haftorah should be: Maftir: Numbers 28:9–15


Further, whenever a Shabbat falls on Rosh Chodesh, the parasha reading title should be: "Rosh Chodesh Toldot" as opposed to just being "Toldot" - this allows the user to understand that this is a Rosh Chodesh Shabbat instead of being an ordinary Shabbat.

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

The Haftara for Toldot on 06-Nov-2021 and on 05-Mar-2022 Parashat Pekudei are correct as published.


Neither of those Shabbatot fall on Rosh Chodesh. Please check your dates carefully before posting bug reports.

Rosh Chodesh Kislev for Hebrew Year 5782 begins at sundown on Thursday, 4 November 2021 and ends at nightfall on Friday, 5 November 2021.

Rosh Chodesh Adar II for Hebrew Year 5782 begins at sundown on Wednesday, 2 March 2022 and ends at nightfall on Friday, 4 March 2022.

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Rosh Chodesh readings are missing from CSV

etayluz 2 years ago updated 2 years ago 5

The Rosh Chodesh Readings are missing from the CSV files.

Further, the weekday readings are incorrect. I showed up at Shul today prepared to read Parashat Noach. But when I got to Shul I realized that it was Rosh Chodesh and I should have prepared the special Rosh Chodesh reading instead. Bummer!!!!

Please be more careful with the information given on this website. Wrong information screws up the service.

Please create ONE AND ONLY ONE CSV file which has EVERY SINGLE TORAH AND HAFTORAH reading ever read in synagogue - ordered chronologically. Having multiple CSV file for Shabat, Mondays and Thursday mornings, Shabbat afternoon, festivals, Rosh Chodesh - you can't possibly have a separate CSV for each of these - this is simply a recipe for confusion, error, and disaster. You end up with conflicting Torah readings for the same dates in different files.

This "ONE AND ONLY ONE" CSV file should include:

* Shabbat Readings

* Rosh Chodesh Readings

* Shabbat Afternoon reading

* Monday morning Reading

* Thursday morning Reading

* Festival Readings

* When Rosh Chodesh falls on Monday, Thursday, or Shabbat afternoon - the regular Rosh Chodesh reading overrides the regular weekly Torah reading.

* When Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbat morning - the Maftir of that Shabbat morning service equals to Numbers 28:9–15.
* When Rosh Chodesh falls on regular Shabbat - the morning Haftorah is replaced by a special Rosh Chodesh Haftorah: 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.[36]

* Does anyone know what is read when Rosh Chodesh falls on a festival? How does Rosh Chodesh alter the normal Torah/Afteroah reading of a Yom Tov?

See source here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Tov_Torah_readings#:~:text=When%20Rosh%20Chodesh%20falls%20on,is%20read%20as%20the%20Maftir.


Rosh Chodesh[edit]

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)[34]
Reading 1: Numbers 28:1–3
Reading 2: Numbers 28:3–5 (the third verse is re-read)
Reading 3: Numbers 28:6–10
Reading 4: Numbers 28:11–15

Rosh Chodesh (Shabbat)[35]
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.[36]


Answer
Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for finding a bug in our brand-new weekday CSV files. Please accept our sincere apologies that you prepared the wrong Torah reading.

We have added Rosh Chodesh to our regular fullkriyah CSV files, which are geared towards Shabbat and holidays.

We have also removed Rosh Chodesh days from our weekday CSV files. We do not plan to add Shabbat mincha dates to this file as it could lead to confusion. Regular Torah readers on Shabbat afternoons are expected to be extremely knowledgeable about which parsha is read, and they will know how to look ahead to the upcoming Shabbat for the parsha.

We plan to continue to keep the fullkriyah and weekday CSV files separate, as they serve different audiences. As designed, they should contain mutually exclusive events.

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import hebcal calendar for 2023 and beyound

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

Hi, I am trying to download the hebcal calendar for 2023 and beyond but I am unable to do so.

Can you please let me know how to do this? I followed your instruction but it only goes till December 2022.

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Michael J. Radwin 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. 

Calendars exported from Hebcal to Google Calendar or other services that support iCalendar subscription feeds are typically “perpetual”. That is, they contain events for the current year (Gregorian or Hebrew) plus some number of years into the future. Our calendars typically have 5 years of events (current year plus 4 years into the future).

Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients require that we limit the number of events per feed. The total number of years is now reduced to 4 years if you check some options that include many events (“Candle lighting times”, “Days of the Omer” or “Show Hebrew date for dates with some event”) or 2 years if you check options that include one event every day of the year (“Daf Yomi” or “Show Hebrew date every day of the year”).

Note that if you’d like to include the Hebrew date for every day of the year, you can subscribe to that calendar via a separate calendar feed at our Jewish Holiday downloads page. Look for Hebrew calendar dates (English) or Hebrew calendar dates (Hebrew).

An added advantage of this approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for the daily calendar event feed.

All that said, if you'd like to download future events to Google Calendar or another program that supports iCalendar (.ics) files such as macOS Calendar or Outlook, follow these alternative download (not subscribe) instructions:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/59/google-calendar-alternative-instructions

Please note that these instructions are recommended only for advanced users. If you don't take great care to create a separate calendar and import Hebcal events into that new, separate calendar, you may unintentionally add hundreds of events to your personal calendar.