My thing is, there is enough "thou shall nots" in the Torah that if
IHaWaH didn't want it done he would have said so. And if you recall,
there are 2 places in the T'nakh where birthdays are celebrated. One
by the Egyptian Pharaoh who reinstated his Bartender but beheaded his
Baker. And another instance where The King of Babylon was celebrating
his birthday.
Now the thing is, is this right or wrong? The scriptures never say
and if IHaWaH didn't want you to do somethign he wouldn't leave it to
guess work you can beleive that! If something offended him he had NO
PROBLEM telling his children. But what we can learn from the T'nakh
is that celebrating of one's birth was part of the middle eastern and
african culture. It was something they as people did. So it has to be
ok to do.
There is no logical reason one couldn't celebrate the day of their
birth. In fact if you notice in the T'nakh one marked their ages by
saying "I am a son of 22 years" How did they keep track of their ages
if they didn't celebrate the day of their birth. Even Shlomo the wise
one in one of his books stated that one should be moor celebrative of
the day of their death than the day of their birth. Which is to say
that celebration of one's birth was very much in effect for him to
even comment with such a statement. The fact that iYob/Job cursed the
day of his birth meant that in fact the day of one's birth was
concidered a blessing by default.
The people of Ysra'al were very celebrative people and celebrated
memorials. I mean if you read the book of B'rashyt you will notice
that everywhere Abraham/Ytzkhaq/ and Ykub converse with IHaWaH they
would mark that area with a monumen of somekind be it a
Pillar/Obelisk or an altar. It just goes to show what manner of
people they are. A people that commemorate everything. How much moor
the day of their birth of which they would consider a blessing?
This is from Squeezette1:
sholom
are we or are we not suppose to celebrate our birthday?
if so please prove it by the scriptures.
