last year's Hebcal Jewish holidays, Torah readings etc. disappeared from my calendar - how to restore?
I subscribe and have Hebcal's Jewish holidays, Torah portions, etc. downloaded on iCal (Mac and iPhone). I just noticed that, at the beginning of 2021, data from all previous calendar years disappeared from my phone and Mac. I have my phone set to sync all events, not just recent events, so it's not my settings. I don't recall this having happened in past years. How do I fix this? Even though the past data is past, there are times when it would be convenient to go back to this info. Obviously there are other online sources, including Hebcal, to look up dates for previous years' Jewish holidays, Torah portions, etc., but having it on the calendar is convenient.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal - and sorry to hear about this inconvenience.
Our perpetual feeds are deliberately kept small to let calendar apps run more quickly.
If you'd like to see past year(s) events for historical reference, you can use the "Alternate option" on the download dialog box to get a past year .ics file on your Mac desktop. Then, you can import that into the calendar application of your choice (e.g. the macOS Calendar.app).
This approach lets you have a private copy (not feed) of past calendar events which won't refresh automatically.
Can a 4th download be added. Israel (Triennial).
Can you please add a 4th option to your download - Torah readings for Israel but for triennial readings to your download CSV file. We use the Israeli calendar but we still only read triennial. Now I have to combine the Full Kriyah with the Triennial. It is time consuming and I find I make mistakes.
Shabbat full event time calendar export
can you add an option to have shabbat and other yomim tovim as a feel event, aka the shabbat event starts at 4.30 pm Friday afternoon and ends 530 pm Saturday night, as opposed to the current system where the start time and end time are separate events
I am trying to automate my home shabbat mode based shabbat and yom tov times (so my motion detectors dont turn on lights on shabbos etc) and need the entire shabbat time blocked out
2 questions that are important for me to know about api rest for Shabbat times
1) Is it constant that in set 0 it is candle lighting and in set 2 it is Shabbat departure?
Array
(
[title] => Hebcal Jerusalem January 2021
[date] => 2021-01-17T13:08:58.174Z
[location] => Array
(
[title] => Jerusalem, Israel
[city] => Jerusalem
[tzid] => Asia/Jerusalem
[latitude] => 31.76904
[longitude] => 35.21633
[cc] => IL
[country] => Israel
[admin1] => Jerusalem
[geo] => geoname
[geonameid] => 281184
)
[items] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[title] => Candle lighting: 16:22
[date] => 2021-01-22T16:22:00+02:00
[category] => candles
[title_orig] => Candle lighting
[hebrew] => הדלקת נרות
)
[1] => Array
(
[title] => Parashat Bo
[date] => 2021-01-23
[category] => parashat
[hebrew] => פרשת בא
[leyning] => Array
(
[1] => Exodus 10:1 - 10:11
[2] => Exodus 10:12 - 10:23
[3] => Exodus 10:24 - 11:3
[4] => Exodus 11:4 - 12:20
[5] => Exodus 12:21 - 12:28
[6] => Exodus 12:29 - 12:51
[7] => Exodus 13:1 - 13:16
[torah] => Exodus 10:1-13:16
[haftarah] => Jeremiah 46:13 - 46:28
[maftir] => Exodus 13:14 - 13:16
)
[link] => https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/bo-20210123?i=on&utm_source=js&utm_medium=api
)
[2] => Array
(
[title] => Havdalah: 17:42
[date] => 2021-01-23T17:42:00+02:00
[category] => havdalah
[title_orig] => Havdalah
[hebrew] => הבדלה
)
)
)
2) Is it regular that I access the link https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&geo=city&city=IL-Jerusalem so he will show me the details of the upcoming Shabbat that week that I access the link?
I would love to get an answer soon. Thanks
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!
1) Is it constant that in set 0 it is candle lighting and in set 2 it is Shabbat departure?
No. When there are other holidays such as Rosh Chodesh or Pesach or Purim, these will also be present in the items array.
For Shabbat candle-lighting, you must loop through items array, looking for an item that has category == candles and a date that is on Friday.
For Havdalah, you must loop through items array, looking for an item that has category == havdalah and a date that is on Saturday.
2) Is it regular that I access the link https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&geo=city&city=IL-Jerusalem so he will show me the details of the upcoming Shabbat that week that I access the link?
Yes, that URL will work correctly every week, regardless of when you access it during the week. On Sunday at 00:00 (midnight) it will refresh to the new week's events.
Shabbat Shirah is now listed among the "Special Shabbat" holidays on Hebcal.com
Here are instructions on how to create a custom calendar with candle-lighting times for your city and then download to modern versions of Outlook via an Internet Calendar Subscription:
French Translation of hebrew date
Hi,
I want t change the translation of hebrew date in French.
It's doesn't mean anything 15eme Tevet. But 15 Tevet, How can I do that please?
Thank you,
Rina
Thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the feedback about the ordinal number suffixes for French numbers. We are not native French speakers, so we were using some software written by others. I apologize that it doesn't make sense.
We will plan to make changes to the Hebcal site to remove the meaningless suffix sometime in the coming week.
Editing/deleting
Is it possible to edit/delete questions/suggestions/etc. without leaving and registering again?
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Festival date\s and spelling
It's possible to find the dates of festivals in specific years and series of years, - eg. Chanukah 1932, Chanukah 5691, Chanukah 2000-2010, Chanukah 2010-2020 - via Google but not your search box even after I'd changed from the normal Israeli transliteration of Hanukkah to your spalling. Why doesn't your search box find information which is on your site?.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. We're sorry to hear that our search box isn't working as well as it should.
You can find a summary of the spelling of holiday names here
months missing from hebcal
2018 is missing January, 2019 is missing January and February, as is
2020, 2021 is again missing January, and 2022 is missing Jan & Feb
....
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!
If you uncheck some options such as Rosh Chodesh, there will indeed be Gregorian months where no Jewish holidays occur.
To set your custom calendar options, go to https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal
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