endpoint for implemetation for app
how to do endpoint with your api is not possible so far
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Torah reading on Monday/Thursday the week prior to passover?
I've noticed that there is no reading for Monday and Thursday of this week (the week before Pesach of year 5782).
Is this correct or is it possible that the reading is absent from fullkriyah-5782.csv ?
I have found mistakes in the csv files in the past that had to be corrected. I'm wondering if this omission of the Monday/Thursday Torah readings is intentional or not.
Yes, there are weekday readings this week. The algorithm for generating the readings did not handle the case where Shabbat is a holiday, so we have now fixed that issue.
The correct weekday Torah reading on a week such as this is the next regular parashat haShavua.
We've made changes to the weekday-diaspora-5782.csv file (and other files) to account for this change.
11-Apr-2022,"Achrei Mot",1,"Leviticus 16:1-16:6",6
11-Apr-2022,"Achrei Mot",2,"Leviticus 16:7-16:11",5
11-Apr-2022,"Achrei Mot",3,"Leviticus 16:12-16:17",6
14-Apr-2022,"Achrei Mot",1,"Leviticus 16:1-16:6",6
14-Apr-2022,"Achrei Mot",2,"Leviticus 16:7-16:11",5
14-Apr-2022,"Achrei Mot",3,"Leviticus 16:12-16:17",6
Sedra RSS feed does not reflect readings for special Shabbatot
Hi - our synagogue website uses the RSS feed (http://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/index.xml) to display the upcoming week's Torah readings. I've noticed that it does not include modified readings for special Shabbatot, e.g. the haftarah for Shabbat Hagadol is from Malachi, but the RSS feed is showing the standard Metzora haftarah from II Kings. It would be great to have this accurately reflect the reading, especially since you already display it correctly in other contexts. Thank you!
Thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the bug report! This issue has been confirmed and is now fixed. RSS feeds on our site have been updated. Here's an excerpt with the corrected information for this week:
Parashat Metzora - 9 April 2022
Torah: Leviticus 14:1-15:33
Haftarah: Malachi 3:4-24 | Shabbat HaGadol
Please note, due to caching, it may take up to 24 hours for your server or browser to show the updated content.
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Pesach Sameach!
API not working anymore?
for many cities the API is not working anymore,
for example
https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=on&mod=off&nx=on&year=now&month=x&ss=on&mf=on&c=off&geo=city&city=DE-Stuttgart&s=on&lg=en&d=on&o=on&i=off
one more is Strasbourg, but there are more of them,
will you do something with that, or will it stay that way?
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal API. We're sorry to hear that you are having difficulty getting API results for Stuttgart and Strasbourg.
You can use URLs like these to get Shabbat times for these cities.
Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
Please note that the preferred way to access world cities is to use the GeoNames IDs as we've done above.
The following options are available for our APIs:
- geo=geoname – location specified by GeoNames.org numeric ID
- requires additional parameter geonameid=3448439
- Hebcal.com supports approximately 47,000 different GeoNames IDs. These are cities with a population of 5000+. See cities5000.zip from https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/.
- geo=zip – location specified by United States ZIP code
- requires additional parameter zip=90210
- geo=city – location specified by one of the Hebcal.com legacy city identifiers
- requires additional parameter city=GB-London
- geo=pos – location specified by latitude, longitude, and timezone. Requires additional 3 parameters:
- latitude=[-90.0 to 90.0] – latitude in decimal format (e.g.
31.76904or-23.5475) - longitude=[-180.0 to 180.0] – longitude decimal format (e.g.
35.21633or-46.63611) - tzid=TimezoneIdentifier. See List of tz database time zones. Be sure to use the “TZ database name” such as America/New_York or Europe/Paris, not a UTC offset
- latitude=[-90.0 to 90.0] – latitude in decimal format (e.g.
Please create a calendar for Bournemouth UK
There are several thousand Jews in Bournemouth and Poole, and in the summer we get lots more coming down from London. We are launching our very updated website this week and having a HEBCAL version for Shabbat times would be great. The alternative is that we have to update times by hand and eventually someone will make a mistake.
Thanks
H Freeman
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal
We already include Bournemouth in our list of cities:
Not seeing Triennial and weird size of font...
This might be an Israel-specific problem: The Torah home page is now showing up (on 2 different computers) in extra large size (only a few words per screen) - and when I manage to find the parasha, it makes me click through to diaspora to see the triennial, and even then only that week, not all 3 years) There were issues with this for Israel based computers in the past, but then it went back to "normal" - and I hope it can again!
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the bug report!
We've fixed the font size issue; please refresh and it should solve the problem.
We have also fixed the links on Israel Torah reading pages to point to the Diaspora versions for Triennial more reliably.
Navigate from month to month
How does one navigate from month to month when looking at a calendar month? Looking at March 2022, I could not find any link to click to get to April 2022. Moving from month to month seems like something any calendar system should do.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for posting this question.
We have revised the "month view" on our holiday pages and moved the previous/next navigation buttons from the right side of the page to the left side of the page to improve their visibility. See below for a screenshot.
In addition, if you are using a device with a keyboard can use the arrow keys (left and right) to go backwards or forwards a month.
We hope these changes help improve the usability of the website!
Birthday in Adar II and also Gregorian Leap Year - Wrong Conversion date
Hi
Seems to be a bug, I entered a Hebrew Birthday 27th Adar II 5736, the conversion date comes out March 29th 1976, the actual birthday was March 30th.
1976 was also a Gregorian Leap year, so the dates (after Feb 29th) if calculated correctly should be shifted +1 day
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?hd=27&hm=Adar2&hy=5736&h2g=1
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
We believe the date conversions provided by Hebcal are correct.
The 27th of Adar II, 5736 was in fact Monday, 29 March 1976.
Tuesday, 30 March 1976 corresponds to the 28th of Adar II, 5736.
Gregorian leap years are already correctly accounted for in date conversions. For example, note the date conversions for February 28 and February 29 in 1976:
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=28&gm=2&gy=1976&g2h=1
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=29&gm=2&gy=1976&g2h=1
If you can find another date conversion source that disagrees with our calculations, please post the reference here so we can investigate further.
Hi, thanks for writing to us.
Hebcal is a free Jewish calendar and holiday web site, accessible from https://www.hebcal.com
Hebdate premium is not affiliated in any way with Hebcal.
We'd suggest you contact the developer of Hebdate and ask them for support.
Hi, thanks for using the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar.
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 Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar page.
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