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If you're using our Shabbat Times REST API the documentation says: "This API generates results for a given location on a rolling weekly time window. Weekly calculations change every Sunday at midnight in the city’s local time zone."
If your system is in Israel and you are requesting candle lighting times for a city in Israel, it will be synchronized to the timezone Asia/Jerusalem. If your system is in Israel and you were requesting candle lighting times for Paris, France, then it would be synchronized to timezone Europe/Paris.
The Shabbat Times API uses a similar URL and response format as our full Jewish calendar REST API, but offers less control over the dates and times. If you find you want more fine-grained control over the date ranges, or what kinds of events are included and which are excluded, we recommend using the full Jewish calendar REST API instead.
Hi Moish,
Thank you for reaching out!
Unfortunately, we don’t currently offer customization options for the daily limudim calendars — we appreciate the feedback though, and it’s helpful to know what our users are looking for.
Regarding your Nach Yomi schedule being one day off, we’d love to look into that further as it may be a bug on our end. Could you send us a link to the schedule you’re using that shows the one-day difference? That will help us investigate and get to the bottom of it.
Thanks again for taking the time to write in!
We made a little bit of progress on this recently (8b4e93d). We have added several new functions to the Zmanim class to support calculations according to the Baal Hatanya. We haven't added the "Chabad" feature you requested just yet, so this is just a step in the right direction.
alosBaalHatanya: Alot HaShachar (Baal Hatanya)
Dawn. Sun is 16.9° below the horizon in the morning, based on the time of 72 minutes before netz amiti (sunrise) in Jerusalem around the equinox
sofZmanShmaBaalHatanya: Kriat Shema, sof zeman (Baal Hatanya)
Latest Shema (Baal Hatanya). 3 shaos zmaniyos (solar hours) after netz amiti (sunrise), calculated from sunrise to sunset
sofZmanTfilaBaalHatanya: Tefilah, sof zeman (Baal Hatanya)
Latest Shacharit (Baal Hatanya). 4 shaos zmaniyos (solar hours) after netz amiti (sunrise), calculated from sunrise to sunset
minchaGedolaBaalHatanya: Mincha Gedolah (Baal Hatanya)
Earliest Mincha (Baal Hatanya). 6.5 shaos zmaniyos (sea level solar hours) after netz amiti (sunrise), calculated from sunrise to sunset
minchaKetanaBaalHatanya: Mincha Ketanah (Baal Hatanya)
Preferable earliest time to recite Minchah (Baal Hatanya). 9.5 shaos zmaniyos (sea level solar hours) after netz amiti (sunrise), calculated from sunrise to sunset
plagHaminchaBaalHatanya: Plag HaMincha (Baal Hatanya)
Plag HaMincha (Baal Hatanya). 10.75 shaos zmaniyos (solar hours) after netz amiti (sunrise), calculated from sunrise to sunset
tzaisBaalHatanya: Tzeit (Baal Hatanya)
Nightfall (Baal Hatanya). Sun is 6° below the western geometric horizon after sunset
Hi, thank you for your thoughtful question!
This is a fascinating topic in Jewish history, but it's beyond the scope of what Hebcal.com covers — we focus on providing Jewish calendar dates, holiday times, and Torah readings rather than historical analysis.
Here are some great places to dig deeper:
• Wikipedia's "Tisha B'Av" article has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B%27Av
• TheTorah.com has an excellent scholarly article called "Tisha B'Av: On What Day Were the Jerusalem Temples Destroyed?" that directly addresses your question: https://www.thetorah.com/article/tisha-b-av-on-what-day-were-the-jerusalem-temples-destroyed
• The Talmud itself (Ta'anit 29a) discusses this — you can find it on Sefaria.org
Hope that helps point you in the right direction!
Thank you for your feedback. Chag sameach!
Shimshon’s answer is spot on. The Hebcal link for Parashat Re’eh on August 24, 1968 (https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/reeh-19680824) has exactly what you need.
To clarify one point that sometimes causes confusion: the choice of Chumash (e.g., ArtScroll Stone Edition vs. others) can affect how the aliyah divisions are marked in certain parshiyot, but it would not affect the haftarah reading. And in the case of Re’eh specifically, this isn’t even an issue — the aliyah breaks are the same across standard Orthodox chumashim.
So you’re all set with that link. Mazal tov on revisiting your bar mitzvah parsha!
Thank you for this suggestion, we will look into implementing this after Pesach
Hebcal doesn’t have a denominational bias. The authors are Jewish and we embrace every movement and denomination of Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Chabad, Reconstructionist, Renewal, Liberal, and Humanist. We are observant of the mitzvot, and we offer this website because we want to help other Jews with their observance. This website also serves as a reference and resource for non-Jews who wish to avoid scheduling secular events in a way that would interfere with observance of Jewish holidays.
You could call us “Conservadox” if you must use a label, but we don’t really participate in any one movement of Judaism more than others.
Hi Hilary,
Thanks for reaching out, and glad you're enjoying the Hebcal calendar (emojis and all!).
Great news — this is easy to fix! If you subscribe to the calendar using Outlook's "Internet Calendar Subscription" feature, the holidays will appear on a separate calendar layer rather than being added directly to your primary calendar. That means they won't affect your availability or set you as Out of Office.
You can find step-by-step instructions here:
https://www.hebcal.com/home/8/outlook-ics-jewish-holidays
Once you set it up this way, you'll still see all the holidays on your calendar — they just won't interfere with your free/busy status.
If you downloaded a copy of the Hebcal events and merged them into your own calendar, then yes, the major holidays are set as Out of Office (although minor holidays are not). To remove those merged events, follow these instructions:
https://www.hebcal.com/home/58/outlook-csv-delete-hebcal-jewish-calendar
Let me know if you have any further questions!
Customer support service by UserEcho
Hi, we haven't been able to add this yet, but we did want to tell you that we added Dirshu Amud Yomi calendar
https://www.hebcal.com/ical/