Chaim's Birthday begins Monday Night and ends Tuesday Night.Not only Chabad all chasidim.
This year when Chaim's birthday is over, Chabad mourns that his birthday is over since 21 Tevet is a great day and it's sad that it will be over. Therefore, they won't study Torah until Midnight. Instead, they will play chess. VeHaMavin Yavin!
Happy Birthday Chaim and may you have 57 more! :dance: :dance: :dance:
Question: Is it halachically permissible to celebrate birthdays?I think you answered your own question.
In Judaism, the perspective on birthday celebrations is disputed by various rabbis.[18] In the Hebrew Bible, the one single mention of a celebration being held in commemoration of someone's day of birth is for the Egyptian Pharaoh which is recorded in Genesis 40:20.[19] Rabbi Moshe Feinstein always acknowledged birthdays.[20] The Lubavitcher Rebbe encouraged people to celebrate their birthdays, by gathering friends, making positive resolutions, and through various religious observances.[21] According to Rabbi Yissocher Frand, the anniversary of a person's birth is a special day for that person's prayers to be accepted.[22]
The bar mitzvah of 13-year-old Jewish boys, or bat mitzvah for 12-year-old Jewish girls, is perhaps the only Jewish celebration undertaken in what is often perceived to be in coalition with a birthday. Despite modern celebrations where the secular "birthday" element often overshadows the essence of it as a religious rite, the essence of a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah celebration is entirely religious in origin (i.e. the attainment of religious maturity according to Jewish law), however, and not secular. With or without the birthday celebration, the child nevertheless becomes a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and the celebration may be on that day or any date after it.
I pointed this out in another thread. Birthdays are not celebrated for any of our Gedolim, and our memories of them usually result from remembering their death date (yartzeit). As Tag pointed out in that thread, Moshe was born and died on the same day (learned from the Gemara)...
I follow as Chabad teaches, that a birthday can be celebrated among friends and family but it is not a big affair.