My Jewish Birthday (28 Adar)

Yesterday, March 30, 2014 was my Jewish birthday as calculated by chabad.org. I was born on the Adar 28, 5751 on the Hebrew calendar. Just for fun my friends and I got together to celebrate it the Saturday night before with cake and punch. In the picture below my friends wrote, "Happy Jew B-day" and drew a Star of David. The "1" was there because it was my first time celebrating my birthday according to the Jewish calendar.

Celebrating my Jewish birthday was a good time and made me feel special. The experience made turning 23 not as uneventful as it normally would be. Perhaps next year I'll learn more about how Jews celebrate birthdays differently from what I've done in the past.

After some of my friends sang happy birthday in Hebrew we did a Havdallah service (using the birthday candle) to mark the end of Shabbat. Shavua Tov!