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Which birthday do you celebrate?
Hebrew  
 43%  [ 129 ]
English  
 24%  [ 72 ]
Both equally  
 23%  [ 69 ]
Whichever comes first  
 3%  [ 9 ]
Whichever comes last  
 1%  [ 5 ]
Neither  
 3%  [ 10 ]
Total Votes : 294



amother
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Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 8:14 pm
With a birthday coming up, I was wondering what's more prevalent to celebrate in frum circles - English or Hebrew. Feel free to mention if you've changed over time from what you did growing up, your religious affiliation if you feel it's relevant, and varying practices within your family if not everybody has the same custom.
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Gerbera




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 8:17 pm
Grew up celebrating both - my husband's family didn't do anything for birthdays. We celebrate both English and Hebrew although now with 3 of my kids born in July...doing 6 celebrations in one month is getting a bit tiring - but they love it! (After this month is over we are good till December!) I'd say I'm modern Orthodox though that can have many meanings and I grew up Chabad. Always nice to have a reason to celebrate! ☺️
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amother
Pink


 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 8:23 pm
Which ever birthday comes first that year is the Yom Tov Rishon. Then it's Chol Homoed birthday. The other birthday (Eng or Heb) is Acharon shel birthday
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busymother




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 8:35 pm
We celebrate whichever is more convenient that year.
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WitchKitty




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 8:38 pm
Both.
But we don't get double the presents. Crying
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agreer




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 8:48 pm
amother [ Pink ] wrote:
Which ever birthday comes first that year is the Yom Tov Rishon. Then it's Chol Homoed birthday. The other birthday (Eng or Heb) is Acharon shel birthday


THIS! Brilliant way of explaining it! Applause Applause Applause Not worthy Not worthy Not worthy Happy Birthday cake Heart Heart Heart
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Kiwi13




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 9:37 pm
English. In my case it’s an easy choice. 13 Adar is usually a fast day. ;-)
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Kiwi13




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 9:38 pm
amother [ Pink ] wrote:
Which ever birthday comes first that year is the Yom Tov Rishon. Then it's Chol Homoed birthday. The other birthday (Eng or Heb) is Acharon shel birthday


OMG AMAZING!!!! You win!!!
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Rappel




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 9:45 pm
Growing up, I only noted the Gregorian one. Once I moved to the Shomron, I realized that all of my neighbors and friends use the Jewish calendar to keep track of the days (the only time they look up the Gregorian calendar is to check if the milk is expired), so I started accounting that way too. After a while, it was a natural transition to consider all of our birthdays according to the Jewish calendar.
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amother
Ruby


 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 10:05 pm
Hebrew because it's Chanukah! My birthday while growing up secular was "the day after Chrissmis" (that's Boxing Day for the cognoscenti). Bummer. Since I discovered that my "real birthday" is Rosh Chodesh Chanukah, I've never looked back!

Anonymous so evil Google won't make it easy for Rubber Ducky hunters to know my birthday. But now you all do.
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Debbie




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 17 2019, 10:48 pm
I keep both; I didn't grow up Frum and until I was 25 I didn't know when my Hebrew birthday was.
For the past 29 years I have kept both.
My husband's Hebrew birthday is 17th Tammuz,so any celebrating is done on the Solar one!
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 12:21 am
Only hebrew. I often forget its my english birthday.
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etky




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 3:39 am
English.
I didn't even know my Hebrew birthday until it appeared on my teudat zehut when I was 18.
No one in my (MO) circles growing up in the US marked their Hebrew birthday.
Now, of course I know my birthday and those of DH and the kids, but DH and I still celebrate our English ones. Old habits die hard and I also actually really like my English date (7-11).
For the kids we celebrate whichever falls more conveniently that particular year.
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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 6:25 am
Whaaat?! celebrating birthdays, no way! treif, tamuh!
Just kidding, everybody!

If you like to party, go for both, why not!

If you cant afford two parties, do one in between to cover both!

Also do you celebrate your own birthday? How many birthdays I celebrate, depends on the other people around me, if they remember to celebrate it! Do you buy yourself an ice cream cake, card, balloons or gift?
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singleagain




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 6:45 am
I was born the week before pesach. So I ended up celebrating my Hebrew birthday in school. Bc my English fell out on pesach more often than not.

But this past year after 33 years.. I just found out I might be celebrating the wrong day and maybe I was born after shkia.. so instead of 8th of Nissan... My actual birthday might be the 9th!
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Chayalle




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 6:52 am
Hebrew. Some of us were born on a Y"T (I became a mother on R"H!) so we associate the whole birthday thing with the Y"T.
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Ruchel




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 7:46 am
I celebrate any day once the first is there
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 7:51 am
dankbar wrote:
Whaaat?! celebrating birthdays, no way! treif, tamuh!
Just kidding, everybody!

If you like to party, go for both, why not!

If you cant afford two parties, do one in between to cover both!

Also do you celebrate your own birthday? How many birthdays I celebrate, depends on the other people around me, if they remember to celebrate it! Do you buy yourself an ice cream cake, card, balloons or gift?


The lubavitcher Rebbe was very into ppl celebrating birthdays. So we definitely do something small on the day. But for my kids, I make them a party on the nearest sunday that works. (ditto when I was a kid - my birthday party was on nearest sunday or motzei shabbos)
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egam




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Jul 18 2019, 8:30 am
Ruchel wrote:
I celebrate any day once the first is there


Though I believe you celebrate your French bday, not the English one 😉.

And does being born in the Soviet Union mean that I have Soviet birthday? What happened to it when SSSR fell apart? Did it become Ukrainian? 🤷‍♀️

To answer the question, I do celebrate both, secular and Hebrew.
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blessedjmom




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Jul 19 2019, 6:08 am
Both. Definitely. And in between the 2.
The more parties the merrier!
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