We've added a calendar feed for the Vilna Edition. Can you take a look and let us know what you think?

Daily regimen of learning the Jerusalem Talmud (Vilna Edition)

365 events per year · 5-year perpetual feed

• Apple
• Google
• Outlook.com
• CSV

iCalendar feed

https://download.hebcal.com/ical/yerushalmi-vilna.ics

Hi, we've started looking into this. If I understand correctly, Daf Yomi Yerushalmi began on Tu BiShvat 5740 (Sat, 2 February 1980) and follows a 4.25 year (51 month) cycle using page numbers according to the Vilna Edition. This cycle skips both Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av. In this version, tractate Berakhot has 68 pages so it takes 68 days to read.

The previous cycle began on 23 Av 5778 / 4 August 2018.

The current cycle began on 20 Cheshvan 5783 / 14 November 2022.

It also appears that there's an alternate page numbering scheme provided by the Schottenstein Edition, and this cycle take a little less than 6 years. Yom Kippur and Tish'a B'Av are not skipped in this alternate cycle. This alternate cycle also began on 20 Cheshvan 5783 / 14 November 2022. In this version, tractate Berakhot has 94 pages so it takes 94 days to read.

Which page numbering are you planning to use?

This is a great suggestion. I'm less familiar with how the cycle works. From a quick scan of https://www.dafyomi.co.il/calendars/calendaryeru11.htm it looks like we don't read a daf on just 2 days each year: Yom Kippur and Tish'a B'Av. Otherwise, the structure is very similar to the Bavli? 

Greetings! It's been many years since we discussed this, and we’re pleased to (finally) announce support for Comma Separated Values (CSV) file import in the Hebcal Yahrzeit + Anniversary calendar. You can now create a personal list of Yahrzeit (memorial) and Yizkor dates, Hebrew Birthdays and Anniversaries for 20+ years by importing a CSV file.

Further details are described here:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/4322/csv-import-for-yahrzeit-anniversary-calendar

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.

We are aware of one company that manufactures digital yahrzeit boards and uses the Hebcal API

https://www.yahrzeitronix.com/

You are also welcome to use the Yahrzeit + Anniversary REST API if you wish to build your own solution.

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Hi, thanks for contacting us.

There is a C command-line interface (not a library). It is not designed to be used in a library context (global variables, places where the code calls die() or exit()) but you are welcome to take a look. 

To find the older C code, go back in the GitHub repository to the latest 4.x release 

https://github.com/hebcal/hebcal/tree/v4.31

I understand the desire to save money. iCalendar is going to be the highest fidelity calendar interchange format, but even 50 years later there are clearly reasons to keep using CSV.

For what it's worth, it looks like you can use a free Windows tool called Notepad++ to remove a Byte Order Mark.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-remove-bom-any-textxml-file

Hi Evan, sorry to hear you're still having difficulty with CSV files and Hebrew on Windows.

The best recommended calendar data interchange format is iCalendar. The CSV format dates back 1972 and precedes the introduction of Unicode. 50 years later, some programs continue to use it but as this thread helps to illustrate, it's still clunky and generally not international-aware.

It appears that the Events Calendar supports iCalendar import directly:

https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/k/importing-events-from-an-ics-file-with-event-aggregator/

Why not use iCalendar (which we offer) and avoid the hassle and inconsistencies caused by CSV?

Alternatively, since you have a copy of Excel on Windows, perhaps you could experiment with using it to remove the Byte Order Mark? 

1. Download the CSV file(s) from Hebcal

2. Open in Excel for Windows

3. Immediately use Excel's "Save As" feature to create a new CSV file (presumably without the Byte Order Mark)

4. Then import the new Hebrew CSV into The Events Calendar

Thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the feedback! We disabled the ArrowLeft/ArrowRight navigation on the Hebrew Date Converter as we agree it doesn't work well on a web page that has interactive forms.