Timeline for Blessings on Birthdays
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| Oct 11, 2021 at 11:51 | history | edited | wfb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2019 at 21:16 | comment | added | Oliver | Point taken, but now that R. Elazar of Koshnitz is reputed as saying so, is it now more “within Jewish tradition”? IMHO, no. (Per your first comment, indeed R. Louis Jacobs said something to the degree that Jews in ancient times took the birthday as a gloomy sign for nearing the end of life.) | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | wfb | It is also interesting to see, for example, that none of the sources about birthdays predate the hasidic movement. Also, given that the whole question was whether there is any source for this within Jewish tradition, it would seem that just an anonymous character's answer on the internet would not have qualified as an answer | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 21:00 | comment | added | wfb | I agree that neither you nor R. Elazar of Kozhnitz have the highest degree of authority (although it is worth noting that R. Elazar of Kozhnitz explicitly identified this as a "remez," and did not consider this to be anything resembling the meaning of the verse). | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 19:19 | comment | added | Oliver | @wfb Granted, but regarding such a question - what makes R. Elazar of Koshnitz more authoritative than e.g. me, an anonymous character? It’s not exactly a legal question interpreting or applying a halachah. Do the quoted psukim lend credence to this notion or not? If not, just bec. I found a name who says the same thing doesn’t ipso facto make the notion more/less true, unlike a legal question where quoting a halachaik authority adds support. | |
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| Aug 8, 2019 at 19:08 | history | edited | wfb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2019 at 17:42 | comment | added | Oliver | @wfb Here, beg. §10. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 16:38 | comment | added | Oliver | @wfb I get the whole “Please source it” thing but sometimes it’s ridiculous. Say nobody else says this and it’s my original theory, does that invalidate the source? | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 13:49 | history | edited | mbloch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2019 at 13:41 | history | answered | Oliver | CC BY-SA 4.0 |