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Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. 

Calendars exported from Hebcal to Google Calendar or other services that support iCalendar subscription feeds are typically “perpetual”. That is, they contain events for the current year (Gregorian or Hebrew) plus some number of years into the future. Our calendars typically have 5 years of events (current year plus 4 years into the future).

Size limitations imposed by Google and other calendar clients require that we limit the number of events per feed. The total number of years is now reduced to 4 years if you check some options that include many events (“Candle lighting times”, “Days of the Omer” or “Show Hebrew date for dates with some event”) or 2 years if you check options that include one event every day of the year (“Daf Yomi” or “Show Hebrew date every day of the year”).

Note that if you’d like to include the Hebrew date for every day of the year, you can subscribe to that calendar via a separate calendar feed at our Jewish Holiday downloads page. Look for Hebrew calendar dates (English) or Hebrew calendar dates (Hebrew).

An added advantage of this approach is that you can choose separate colors in Google Calendar or iOS/iCloud calendar for the daily calendar event feed.

All that said, if you'd like to download future events to Google Calendar or another program that supports iCalendar (.ics) files such as macOS Calendar or Outlook, follow these alternative download (not subscribe) instructions:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/59/google-calendar-alternative-instructions

Please note that these instructions are recommended only for advanced users. If you don't take great care to create a separate calendar and import Hebcal events into that new, separate calendar, you may unintentionally add hundreds of events to your personal calendar.

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. Can you send us the URL or a screenshot of which page looks incorrect to you?


Please note we do list the haftarah for Shabbat Chanukah on the Miketz 5782 page here:

https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/miketz-20211204


And also on our Chanukah 5782 page here:

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/chanukah-2021#reading-shabbat-rosh-chodesh-chanukah

    Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. Can you send us a screenshot of what looks incorrect to you? We do list the haftarah for Shabbat Chanukah on the Miketz 5782 page here:

    https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/miketz-20211204

    Hi, thanks for using Hebcal and thanks for your question. You are correct, we don't currently offer a way to view/print a calendar that's primarily based on the Hebrew months. Because of our focus on integrating with other calendar apps (Apple, Google, Outlook, etc) we are a bit oriented towards the Gregorian calendar as the primary view.

    Our colleagues at Judaism 101 maintain a 3-month calendar in the format you describe:

    https://jewfaq.org/current.shtml

    Hi Bonnie, thanks for the feedback.

    The Sefaria link format actually does support both start and end verses. So, for example the 5th aliyah of Bereshit is Genesis 4:19-22 and you'll see that this link is formatted as follows:


    https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.4.19-22?lang=bi&aliyot=1


    If you want to print this from Sefaria, just highlight the verses and add them to a new Source Sheet. Then they will print very easily.

    Hi, sorry to hear that Tikkun.io links don't copy well to Dreamweaver. This might be something that could be improved on the tikkun.io side? You can file a bug report for their site here: https://github.com/akivajgordon/tikkun.io/issues

    Also, please note that if you're regularly cutting and pasting Triennial readings from Hebcal, you may wish to take a look at our downloadable CSV spreadsheets which were designed to make it easy for leyning coordinators and Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutors:

    https://www.hebcal.com/home/48/download-aliyot-breakdown-of-torah-readings

    For reference for other users, we were able to diagnose this issue further.

    The author appears to be running into the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority expiry issue that is documented here:

    https://letsencrypt.org/docs/dst-root-ca-x3-expiration-september-2021/

    https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-old-root-expiration/


    Hebcal's certificate itself is valid and expires in 1 month and 28 days:

    https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.hebcal.com&latest

    However, very old operating systems or browsers need to update their CA store so they can trust the more modern Let's Encrypt signing authority.

      Thanks for the feedback. We've added CSV downloads for weekday to our website


      https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/#download

      You'll want to use these CSV files in conjunction with the existing Full Kriyah or Triennial spreadsheets. These new files include readings only for regular (non-holiday) Mondays and Thursdays.

      Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. We are sorry to hear you are having SSL certificate expired issues.


      Unfortunately, we are unable to reproduce this error.


      mradwin ~ % curl --compressed -v 'https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&zip=90210'
      *   Trying 45.55.96.251...
      * TCP_NODELAY set
      * Connected to www.hebcal.com (45.55.96.251) port 443 (#0)
      * ALPN, offering h2
      * ALPN, offering http/1.1
      * successfully set certificate verify locations:
      *   CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
        CApath: none
      * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
      * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
      * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
      * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
      * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
      * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
      * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
      * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
      * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
      * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
      * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
      * ALPN, server accepted to use h2
      * Server certificate:
      *  subject: CN=hebcal.com
      *  start date: Aug 30 00:57:02 2021 GMT
      *  expire date: Nov 28 00:57:01 2021 GMT
      *  subjectAltName: host "www.hebcal.com" matched cert's "www.hebcal.com"
      *  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
      *  SSL certificate verify ok.
      * Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
      * Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
      * Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
      * Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x7fdf7980ec00)
      > GET /shabbat?cfg=json&zip=90210 HTTP/2
      > Host: www.hebcal.com
      > User-Agent: curl/7.64.1
      > Accept: */*
      > Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
      > 
      * Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
      < HTTP/2 200 
      < server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
      < date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:48:57 GMT
      < content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
      < content-length: 770
      < vary: Accept-Encoding
      < etag: W/"17a-Tj/NK7JgcA6OrApV7TdezSRU3LY"
      < last-modified: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:48:45 GMT
      < expires: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 07:00:00 GMT
      < content-encoding: gzip
      < x-response-time: 6.331ms
      < x-varnish: 2229171 133656
      < age: 12
      < via: 1.1 varnish (Varnish/6.2)
      < access-control-allow-origin: *
      < accept-ranges: bytes
      < 
      * Connection #0 to host www.hebcal.com left intact
      {"title":"Hebcal Beverly Hills October 2021","date":"2021-09-30T15:48:45.277Z","location":{"title":"Beverly Hills, CA 90210","city":"Beverly Hills","tzid":"America/Los_Angeles","latitude":34.103131,"longitude":-118.416253,"cc":"US","country":"United States","admin1":"CA","geo":"zip","zip":"90210","state":"CA"},"items":[{"title":"Candle lighting: 6:19pm","date":"2021-10-01T18:19:00-07:00","category":"candles","title_orig":"Candle lighting","hebrew":"הדלקת נרות","memo":"Parashat Bereshit"},{"title":"Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Cheshvan","date":"2021-10-02","category":"mevarchim","hebrew":"שבת מברכים חודש חשון","memo":"Molad Cheshvan: Wed, 11 minutes and 12 chalakim after 12:00"},{"title":"Parashat Bereshit","date":"2021-10-02","category":"parashat","hebrew":"פרשת בראשית","leyning":{"1":"Genesis 1:1 - 2:3","2":"Genesis 2:4 - 2:19","3":"Genesis 2:20 - 3:21","4":"Genesis 3:22 - 4:18","5":"Genesis 4:19 - 4:22","6":"Genesis 4:23 - 5:24","7":"Genesis 5:25 - 6:8","torah":"Genesis 1:1-6:8","haftarah":"Isaiah 42:5 - 43:10","haftarah_sephardic":"Isaiah 42:5 - 42:21","maftir":"Genesis 6:5 - 6:8","triennial":{"1":"Genesis 5:1 - 5:5","2":"Genesis 5:6 - 5:8","3":"Genesis 5:9 - 5:14","4":"Genesis 5:15 - 5:20","5":"Genesis 5:21 - 5:24","6":"Genesis 5:25 - 5:31","7":"Genesis 5:32 - 6:8","maftir":"Genesis 6:5 - 6:8"}},"link":"https://<a href="http://www.hebcal.com" class="redactor-autoparser-object">www.hebcal.com</a>/sedrot/bereshit-20211002?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api"},{"title":"Havdalah: 7:13pm","date":"2021-10-02T19:13:00-07:00","category":"havdalah","title_orig":"Havdalah","hebrew":"הבדלה"}]}* Closing connection 0
      mradwin ~ %