Weird. Judaism is all about celebrating anniversaries of important events. All the yamim tovim are about that. You make a bracha on a fruit that you haven’t eaten in a year, why? Because the fruit means so much that you can actually honestly say with sincerity ??????? ??????? ??????? ???? ????? I heard from my rabbeim that the idea is you are celebrating and thanking Hashem for the fact that you made it until the next year, or until you needed a new suit, etc., and they said ?? ??? one should celebrate a birthday for the same reason, even if there’s no mitzvah to make a bracha. Now maybe there’s no special inyan to make a party, but to say that it’s somehow not a Jewish idea to celebrate a birthday, is a shtus. In my humble opinion of course.
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