Rav Moshe Feinstein reportedly insisted that each of his grandchildren call him on his birthday to wish him well. Ginzei Yosef (4) writes that it is a good custom to recite a she’hechiyanu over a new fruit or a new garment on all of one’s birthdays. Rav Ovadia Yosef also notes that on any of one’s birthdays it is appropriate to have a special meal accompanied by words of Torah, and that such a meal would be a seudat mitzvah (Yabia Omer, Orach Chaim 6:29).
Meh. The only birthday mentioned in Torah is Pharoah's and the emphasis is on how will live and and who will die.
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DeleteImplies that the birthday is a day of judgement. Instead of running around giving people brachas (where did that come from anyway?), perhaps we should be fasting and saying vidui.
DeleteSo GI, do you have a seuda on yom haatzmaut, or fast?
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