8 Ways to Celebrate Your Jewish Birthday
Tips for making your Jewish birthdays a time of meaning and growth.
In addition to the date of birth according to the “regular”, secular calendar, we each have a birthday that corresponds to the Hebrew calendar. (
On Hebrew birthdays, everything we do has a heightened importance. The Talmud describes that when the evil nation Amalek attacked the ancient Israelites, the Jewish people placed fighters whose birthday was that day in the front of the defensive lines; the implication is that their birthdays were a lucky day for the soldiers, and might help sway their efforts to favorable outcomes. (Jerusalem Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 3.8)