Hi Rabbi, thanks for using Hebcal and thanks for your message.
The Hebcal.com website does list Parashat Tazria as year 3 of triennial cycle for the current year.
Tazria 5782 / תַזְרִיעַ
Read on 2 April 2022 / 1 Nisan 5782
https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/tazria-20220402
Did you find a page that indicates that the April 2022 reading is for the 2nd year? If so, could you send us the URL and a screenshot?
Chanukah Sameach!
Update documentation to include date range "hebcal" API?
I'm putting together a page that will show the Parsha hashavua and specific times for a given Hebrew year.
The hebcal.com/hebcal? API will give me the Shabbat dates for a year, but only (as far as I can see) a Gregorian year.
I tested out the &start= and &end= option which is documented in the hebcal.com/zmanim page, and found it works.
The fact that it works is lovely. The fact that it's not described on the hebal.com/hebcal page is perhaps less lovely. I'm willing to pitch in and help with the documentation if that helps.
Thanks for using Hebcal and thanks for this suggestion!
We have updated the Jewish Calendar REST API documentation to reflect the availability of the start/end parameters
https://www.hebcal.com/home/195/jewish-calendar-rest-api
Chanukah Sameach!
Chanukah Rosh Hodesh Maftir?
Aliyah #4 for Rosh Hodesh + Chanukah on a weekday (e.g. Day 7 in 2021) is listed as a maftir, but there is no Haftarah that day. It should just be the 4th aliyah.
Thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks so much for catching this error!
We have fixed the aliyot so the 4th aliyah is listed as 4 and not maftir. You may need to refresh the page to see the corrected version.
https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2021#reading-chanukah-day-7-on-rosh-chodesh
Add to Google calendar
Trying to add calendar for 2022 onwards to Google, when it switches to the calendar app, says that calendar no longer exists
Chanukah
I downloaded Hebcal for iPhone. For some reason, Chanukah does not appear. In past years, each day of Chanukah and how many candles to light was listed. I looked ahead to 2022 and see that Chanukah is not listed there either.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal's Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar!
If you visit https://www.hebcal.com/yahrzeit in the same web browser where you earlier created a calendar, you will now see a page that looks like this:
If you click one of the existing personal calendar links, you can share the URL with someone else.
Please note that sharing the calendar shares both view and edit permissions. They will be able to make changes, including adding new names or deleting existing names. Only share the URL with someone that you trust.
Please add Sof Zman Tefila and Shema according to the Magen Avraham
We've recently completed this feature request.
https://www.hebcal.com/home/1663/zmanim-halachic-times-api
In addition to previous output there are now two new outputs
sofZmanShmaMGA – Latest Shema (MGA)
Sunrise plus 3 halachic hours, according to Magen Avraham
sofZmanTfillaMGA – Latest Shacharit (MGA)
Sunrise plus 4 halachic hours, according to Magen Avraham
The source code that generates the new times is here:
https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal-es6/blob/main/src/zmanim.js#L205
And if you'd like to see an example of the output:
https://www.hebcal.com/zmanim?cfg=json&geonameid=293807&date=2022-03-27
WIX
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
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:
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!
I have my app in Ios and I will love to includ Hebcal to it, How I can do that??
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??
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:
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