The Hebcal Alexa Skill
The Hebcal Alexa Skill is not recognizing my pronunciation of Hebcal (Heeb-kal). I have tried to speak faster, slower, from a closer distance, nothing works. Other skills work fine. Any recommendations?
Sorry to hear that Alexa is having trouble recognizing the name of our skill.
You can try saying "Alexa, open Hebcal"
issue with importing Yahrtzeit calendar to google or iphone
I am trying to download a 20 year yahrtzeit calendar to my google or iphone calendar. In both cases, the file is downloaded as an ics file, but when i try to view in the folder or import it into my calendar, I see it is a pdf. Is there a way to fix this? I would really like to have the reminders....Thanks!
full version
I have a "kosher" smartphone and want to know what is the difference for the paid version and how can I get it. I don't have a browser on my phone. A neighbor told me that he thinks that he paid for a full version and got benefits. thanks and it's a great program.
Hello,
Hebcal.com does not provide Android apps, free or premium. We have been providing a Jewish holiday and calendar website since 1998. Recently, an unaffiliated 3rd party called BotenSoft released a similarly-named Android app called HebCal.
If you're looking for support for the unrelated BotenSoft product, please contact Nahum Ben-Porath of BotenSoft.
Google calendar resets the calendar
Hello,
the calendar name changed again to Hebcal H̱adera 2015-2016 and events where
This happens over and over again
How to get Chanukah lighting times via API?
Firstly, I am a big fan of Hebcal, and have used it before in this website.
Now I'd like to use Hebcal to display Chanukah lighting times in another website. How could I get these times on a daily basis via JavaScript request? I don't want to display them in a calendar, I just need them in a string to be requested each day.
Havdalah time not returning in API call.
Sometimes the API is not returning all the values (shabbat times). For example click on the link provided below. It is not displaying the havdalah time.
Example API url:
http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=json&m=20&b=20&geonameid=6693679
API response:
stdClass Object
( [title] => Modiin, Central District, Israel [items] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [category] => holiday [memo] => The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights [date] => 2015-12-07T16:55:00+02:00 [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah [hebrew] => חנוכה: ב׳ נרות [title] => Chanukah: 2 Candles: 4:55pm ) [1] => stdClass Object ( [title] => Chanukah: 3 Candles: 4:55pm [category] => holiday [memo] => The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights [date] => 2015-12-08T16:55:00+02:00 [hebrew] => חנוכה: ג׳ נרות [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah ) [2] => stdClass Object ( [title] => Chanukah: 4 Candles: 4:55pm [category] => holiday [memo] => The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights [date] => 2015-12-09T16:55:00+02:00 [hebrew] => חנוכה: ד׳ נרות [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah ) [3] => stdClass Object ( [memo] => The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights [category] => holiday [date] => 2015-12-10T16:56:00+02:00 [hebrew] => חנוכה: ה׳ נרות [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah [title] => Chanukah: 5 Candles: 4:56pm ) [4] => stdClass Object ( [memo] => The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights [date] => 2015-12-11T16:16:00+02:00 [category] => holiday [hebrew] => חנוכה: ו׳ נרות [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah [title] => Chanukah: 6 Candles: 4:16pm ) [5] => stdClass Object ( [hebrew] => הדלקת נרות [category] => candles [date] => 2015-12-11T16:16:00+02:00 [title] => Candle lighting: 4:16pm ) [6] => stdClass Object ( [title] => Parashat Miketz [category] => parashat [date] => 2015-12-12 [hebrew] => פרשת מקץ [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/miketz [leyning] => stdClass Object ( [8] => Numbers 28:9 - 28:15 | Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chanukah [3] => Genesis 41:39 - 41:52 [7] => Genesis 43:30 - 44:17 [maftir] => Numbers 7:42 - 7:47 | Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chanukah [6] => Genesis 43:16 - 43:29 [haftarah] => Zechariah 2:14-4:7 | Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Chanukah [1] => Genesis 41:1 - 41:14 [torah] => Genesis 41:1 - 44:17 [4] => Genesis 41:53 - 42:18 [5] => Genesis 42:19 - 43:15 [2] => Genesis 41:15 - 41:38 ) ) [7] => stdClass Object ( [title] => Rosh Chodesh Tevet [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/rosh-chodesh-tevet [hebrew] => ראש חודש טבת [category] => holiday [memo] => Beginning of new Hebrew month of Tevet [date] => 2015-12-12 ) [8] => stdClass Object ( [title] => Chanukah: 7 Candles: 4:56pm [hebrew] => חנוכה: ז׳ נרות [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah [date] => 2015-12-12T16:56:00+02:00 [memo] => The Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the Festival of Lights [category] => holiday ) ) [date] => 2015-12-07T09:11:07-00:00 [link] => http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?m=20;b=20;geonameid=6693679;maj=on;min=on;mod=on;mf=on;ss=on;nx=on;c=on;i=on;geo=geoname [location] => stdClass Object ( [latitude] => 31.89825 [country] => Israel [geonameid] => 6693679 [city] => Modiin [tzid] => Asia/Jerusalem [title] => Modiin, Central District, Israel [longitude] => 35.01051 [admin1] => Central District [geo] => geoname ) )
Hi, thanks for the feedback.
We've made changes to how our API works and Chanukah candle-lighting times will no longer suppress regular Shabbat/Havdalah times. Here's an example to illustrate how the API now behaves (with 2 events on Friday night and 2 events on Saturday night).
http://www.hebcal.com/shabbat/?cfg=json&m=20&b=20&geonameid=6693679&gy=2015&gm=12&gd=12
{
"title": "Chanukah: 7 Candles",
"date": "2015-12-12T16:56:00+02:00",
"category": "holiday",
"subcat": "major",
"hebrew": "חנוכה: ז׳ נרות",
"leyning": {
"7": "Numbers 28:9 - 28:15",
"haftarah": "Zechariah 2:14-4:7",
"maftir": "Numbers 7:42 - 7:47"
},
"link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2015?i=on&utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
"memo": "Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of rededication. Also known as the Festival of Lights"
},
{
"title": "Havdalah (20 min): 16:56",
"date": "2015-12-12T16:56:00+02:00",
"category": "havdalah",
"title_orig": "Havdalah",
"hebrew": "הבדלה (20 דקות)"
},
שלום עליכם אין זמנים לשבת פרשת נצבים אוקטובר 1 2016 למוצאי שבת לא לזמן של 50 דק' אחר השקיעה ולא רבינו תם
For more information about what number to specify, read this article.
http://www.hebcal.com/home/96/what-is-havdalah-or-when-does-shabbat-end
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