Creating recurring event that isn't a birthday, anniversary, or yartzeit

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks so much for your feedback.

Can you please say more about how you're trying to use the Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar? What kind of events are you trying to schedule that aren't a yahrzeit, birthday or Hebrew anniversary? We would like to understand more about the specific use case of recurring events on the Hebrew calendar to see how to properly design an "other" category. If we do create an "other" category, we could remove the year calculation (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ...) from the event title.

For edge cases for events that occur on the 30th day of Cheshvan, Kislev, or Adar I in years where that day does not occur. Since they are Rosh Chodesh, presumably they should be postponed to the 1st of the following month (following the same rule as special cases for birthdays).

Mo'adim L'Simcha!

Hi! I can. So for instance, I'm transgender and the dates of my Hebrew name change or the beginning of my transition are meaningful events that don't fit under the category of x's Hebrew __________. I could also imagine the date on which a person converts, whether when they dip in the mikvah or their first time getting called to an aliyah, or the date which a person is divorced by a beit din if it's an unhappy marriage, as well as many other significant moments - there are likely many such events which are Judaically meaningful but not a relationship anniversary.  Does that make things more clear? 

In terms of leap months and such yeah I can imagine it would need to be postponed similar to birthdays.

Thanks! That's helpful.

We will plan to implement this feature. Based on what you describe, following the same rules for birthday/anniversary could work fine. The rules for yahrzeit are more complicated because they depend not only on the Hebrew date of the event itself, but also on the character of the year that the 1st anniversary occurs in... Given some of the examples you listed, those special yahrzeit rules wouldn't apply.

For now, "Anniversary" is the closest match to an "Other" category. When we add the feature we will be sure to update this ticket. You will be able to log into any existing calendars you have and simply switch the event type and the title will be simplified to include only the text you entered on the Hebcal page (with optional Hebrew date appended, if you checked that checkbox).

Hi, we've started work on this and have a beta version available now on the Hebcal.com website. If you visit the Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar, you'll now be able to pick "Other" in addition to Yahrzeit, Birthday, and Anniversary. If you pick "Other", it's treated mostly the same as Anniversary, but without any modifications to the title.

This works perfectly so far!!! Thank you for being so responsive!

Glad to hear it's working for you!