We celebrate Bar Mitzva which is essentially a birthday and we celebrate Moshe Rabeinu’s birthday- 7 Adar. Lubavitch still celebrates the Rebbe’s birthday and birthdays in general. The Chofetz Chaim had a big birthday party when he was in his ninety’s. And I get an aliya to celebrate my birthday. Yidden in galus need celebrations and good wishes, hence the reason for the American minhag of “vort”, which I can’t find in the Torah either.
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