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There is mention in the Gemmorah of some who celebrated milestone birthdays such as 60th or 70th otherwise there are no other sources or basis for celebrating bithdays
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| Posts: 361 | Location: Chicago | Registered: June 20, 2004 |  |
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In Chassidic circles, we view a birthday as a personal rosh hashana in which should be treated as such. We really should not see it as a time of senseless celebration, but as a meaningful experience like rosh hashana. So it is best to do so in this way. Many charedim also do so in this manner as well as in other circles of Orthodoxy. But it should be a meaningful time to really find a closeness to Hashem that we may not have had in the year before and do some soul-searching and make the next year better. Oh and by the way, we should make a special prayer to Hashem thanking Him for giving us life. To celebrate it in any other way is like the person saying that they deserved to be alive and they are also taking credit for living so long. Why we live to that certain year is based on the sustenance of Hashem.
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| Posts: 5 | Location: Norwich Connecticut | Registered: January 31, 2005 |  |
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