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Hi, thanks for the generous offer! We'd love your help to offer a Portuguese transliteration.
You can use a tool like Poedit to create the translation file https://poedit.net/
We suggest you download a file like the Spanish language translation, and rename it "pt.po" and then make your edits there. Once you've finished, you can email the file to webmaster@hebcal.com and we will incorporate it into the website within a few days.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hebcal/hebcal-locales/master/po/es.po
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
Yahrzeit refers to the anniversary, according to the Hebrew calendar, of the day of death of a loved one. Alternative spellings include yahrtzeit, yortsayt, and yartzeit. On the anniversary of a death, it is the custom to light a candle to commemorate the departure of a loved one. [1]
In the form, enter the date of death (or birth or anniversary). Use the "+ Add another name" button at the bottom of the page to add additional names. After you generate a personal anniversary calendar, you will be able to print, subscribe to annual email reminders, or download a multi-year calendar feed to Apple, Google, Outlook, or other web, desktop and mobile calendar apps.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion!
We don't yet offer a REST API for this, but this is a very good idea. We'd like to implement this feature but it will take some time to do so.
In the meantime, if your system is built in JavaScript, you can use the @hebcal/core NPM package to do the Yahrzeit conversions
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!
Molad details are included on our .ics calendar export (for Google, Apple, and Microsoft Outlook 2007 and later) if you create a custom calendar at https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal and you check both "Special Shabbatot" and "Rosh Chodesh".
You'll see the molad details in the notes/description section in each "Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh" event
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
Can you check your candle lighting times and confirm you are using 18 minutes before sundown? This is the Hebcal default but you may have set it to another value, for example 38 minutes before sundown.
Hebcal is correct.
When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the state of Israel observes Yom Hashoah on the preceding Thursday. When it falls on a Sunday, Yom Hashoah is observed on the following Monday. In the United States, Days of Remembrance runs from the Sunday before Yom Hashoah through the following Sunday.
2021 Thursday, April 8
https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/resources/calendar
Thanks for the bug report! The problem has been fixed now. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks for this bug report. We aren't able to reproduce the error; it may have been a transient network failure. Can you try again and see if the problem persists?
Shabbat shalom!
Customer support service by UserEcho
Hi Steven, thanks for catching this bug. The logic for picking today's date when there is no start, end or date parameter was defaulting to today's date in UTC instead of the date at the timezone based on the location.
The issue has been fixed now and those different URLs should give consistent results.
You can always specify an explicit date like https://www.hebcal.com/zmanim?cfg=json&zip=60613&date=2021-03-12 if you don't want the implicit "today" feature.