[open] Find your Hebrew birthday and Parsha

[Sephania]

:wave: Shalom All! This is really cool.

Go and find out what the Torah portion was for the day you were born.

Find your birth parsha (http://bible.ort.org/books/cald5.asp)


You will also find out if you were born on Shabbat or not ( in case you didn't know).

:)

[Yovel]

Aish has a Hebrew/English calendar that you can down load. Go to

http://www.aish.com/

Put Calendar into their Search engine. It gives the Gregorian and Hebrew calendar together and also shows the Torah portion on Shabbat. Shows the counting of the Omer, Rosh Chodesh and many other things. Really COOL!

[Vaneeza Malkah]

very cool zayit :) I don't think I'll be bat mitzvah'd this year though, though it does fall on december 25th :D:D

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 16 Tevet 5768 (25 December 2007)Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 20 Tevet 5768 (29 December 2007)

Torah PortionShemot (Ashkenazim), Exodus : 1:1-6:1 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=1534)
Haftarah PortionIsaiah 27:6 - 27:13; 28:1 - 28:13; 29:22 - 29:23 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=290)

[plum]

coooolness!

here's what was read in my birthday!
Torah PortionVaYakhel (Ashkenazim), Exodus : 35:1-38:20 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=2530)
Pekudey, Exodus : 38:21-40:38 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=2652)
Haftarah PortionKings 1 7:51 - 8:21 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=566)Replaced byEzekiel 45:16 - 45:25; 46:1 - 46:18 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1725)

replaced?? what does that mean?

and my first reading is about Shabbat! glory to G-d!

[Torah]

Thanks Zayit I had this site years back and lost it. This is very cool. :thumbsup:


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[Tishri1]

replaced?? what does that mean?

maybe you were born on a festival?:clap:

[Sephania]

very cool zayit :) I don't think I'll be bat mitzvah'd this year though, though it does fall on december 25th :D

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 16 Tevet 5768 (25 December 2007)Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 20 Tevet 5768 (29 December 2007)

Torah PortionShemot (Ashkenazim), Exodus : 1:1-6:1 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=1534)
Haftarah PortionIsaiah 27:6 - 27:13; 28:1 - 28:13; 29:22 - 29:23 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=290)

Vaneeza, I dont' think you did it right. If your Bat Mitzvah is 12/25/07 that means you were born in 1994, and according to your age above, that ain't so. ;) :hug: You have to put in your birth month day and year. Then it shows you when your bat mitzvah should have been, then it shows you the parsha for that day.

My Bat mitzvah date was not my Birthday because I was born on Shabbat so mine came up 5 days later, on a Thursday, not sure why though, anyone? :scratch:

[Sephania]

Thanks Zayit I had this site years back and lost it. This is very cool. :thumbsup:


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Thanks Torah, that reminds me, I 'd better bookmark it on my PC, you never know when a forum or a post may disappear! :)

[Sephania]

Aish has a Hebrew/English calendar that you can down load. Go to

http://www.aish.com/

Put Calendar into their Search engine. It gives the Gregorian and Hebrew calendar together and also shows the Torah portion on Shabbat. Shows the counting of the Omer, Rosh Chodesh and many other things. Really COOL!

Yup that one is cool, I have it bookmarked. :)

Just a warning while we are on the subject of calendars, I found out recently that hebcal . com that I had bookmarked on my pc and was using occasionally for parsha, birthday locating. actually had spy ware connected to it and had placed itself in my start-up menu. :doh: I would trust aish more then that one to bookmark.

[Vaneeza Malkah]

Vaneeza, I dont' think you did it right. If your Bat Mitzvah is 12/25/07 that means you were born in 1994, and according to your age above, that ain't so. ;) :hug: You have to put in your birth month day and year. Then it shows you when your bat mitzvah should have been, then it shows you the parsha for that day.

My Bat mitzvah date was not my Birthday because I was born on Shabbat so mine came up 5 days later, on a Thursday, not sure why though, anyone? :scratch:

ahh, I see hehe, well I wasn't born in 1994 :D:D

[Sephania]

Didn't think so ;) :hug:

[debi b]

Just a warning while we are on the subject of calendars, I found out recently that hebcal . com that I had bookmarked on my pc and was using occasionally for parsha, birthday locating. actually had spy ware connected to it and had placed itself in my start-up menu. :doh: I would trust aish more then that one to bookmark.
:doh: Yikes! I use that one - thanks :)

[Sephania]

I think using it is OK, just don't store it on your pc with a bookmark. ;)

I have a friend who is a computer genius and he was helping me go through my pc to see why it was so slow. I couldn't believe all the things that had made themselves start up each time I go online. Paltalk was another one too. :)

[Vaneeza Malkah]

hehe, ok here's my correct one (I knew I was born during hanukkah!)

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 25 Kislev 5758 (24 December 1997)Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 28 Kislev 5758 (27 December 1997)The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony Sabbath occurs during Chanukah.

Torah PortionMiKets, Genesis : 41:1-44:17 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=1197)Maftir PortionNaso, Numbers : 7:30-7:41 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=3878)
Haftarah PortionKings 3:15 - 4:1 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=249)Replaced byZachariah 2:14 - 4:7 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1615)

[Sephania]

Maybe Debi can answer why the replacement?

I read each of mine anyway and found that they are compatable ( similar subjects).

Has anyone else read yours and does it speak to you in a special way? Mine sure did. It brough tears to my eyes, and even one part was a part that I think about a lot and now I guess I know why. :)

[Vaneeza Malkah]

yeah, pretty touching!

2:14 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for I am coming, and I will dwell in your midst, says God.
Roni vesimchi bat-Tsiyon ki hineni-va veshachanti vetochech ne'um-Adonay. 2:15 Many nations will join themselves to God on that day, and will be My people, and I will dwell in your midst; and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
Venilvu goyim rabim el-Adonay bayom hahu vehayu li le'am veshachanti vetochech veyada'at ki-Adonay Tseva'ot shlachani elayich. 2:16 And God will inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
Venachal Adonay et-Yehudah chelko al admat hakodesh uvachar od biYerushalayim. 2:17 Be silent, all flesh, before God; for He has roused Himself from His holy habitation.
Has kol-basar mipney Adonay ki ne'or mim'on kodsho.

[debi b]

I think using it is OK, just don't store it on your pc with a bookmark. ;)



Just deleted it :P

[debi b]

Maybe Debi can answer why the replacement?



I think if the reading were to fall on a sabbath during Hanukkah it would be the reading from Zech :)

[Vaneeza Malkah]

yeah, :) holy assemblies and holidays have special torah readings

[Talmidah]

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 01 Shevat 5747
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 01 Shevat 5747
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday on a Sabbath

Torah Portion VaEra, Exodus : 6:2-9:35 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=1658)
Maftir Portion Pinchas, Numbers : 28:9-28:15 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=4584)
Haftarah Portion Ezekiel 28:25 - 29:21 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=335) Replaced byIsaiah 66:1 - 66:25 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1340)

[Sephania]

I think if the reading were to fall on a sabbath during Hanukkah it would be the reading from Zech :) Mine had the same thing too, and my birth is near no holy day. :confused: :scratch:

[Henaynei]

LOL - mine says to go to war, defeat enemies and take prisoners....

hubby was B'resheet, born just after Simchat Torah :)

[vanilla8]

Can I clarify something, my torah reading was Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 and the Haftara portion is Isaiah 60:1-60:22

So what does the last numbers refer to? Does it mean read Deuteronomy chapter 26, verses 1 to 29 - and then chapter 8?

Are these the readings for your birth year? and what is the Haftarah?

I heard that each day and year has a name, like September 11 1999, is named 'The year when everything changes' and also 'The year when the judgement of the nations begins' - this is from memory so may be slightly incorrect - but is it true? and is there a site that would calculate it?

[Henaynei]

Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 and the Haftara portion is Isaiah 60:1-60:22
Deuteronomy chapter 26 verse 1 to chapter 29 verse 8 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Deut+26%3A1+-+29%3A8&section=0&version=cjb&language=en)

Isaiah chapter 60 verse 1 to chapter 60 verse 22 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Isa+60%3A1-22&section=0&version=cjb&language=en)

b'Shalom
Henaynei

[vanilla8]

Deuteronomy chapter 26 verse 1 to chapter 29 verse 8 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Deut+26%3A1+-+29%3A8&section=0&version=cjb&language=en)

Isaiah chapter 60 verse 1 to chapter 60 verse 22 (http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?new=1&word=Isa+60%3A1-22&section=0&version=cjb&language=en)

b'Shalom
Henaynei

Well now it's blatantly obvious, lol
:doh: :blush:
Thanks

[BarbB]

Has anyone else read yours and does it speak to you in a special way? Mine sure did. It brough tears to my eyes, and even one part was a part that I think about a lot and now I guess I know why. :)

LOL, I discovered that I had the first bit of my Torah Portion mostly memorized!



Torah PortionBereshit, Genesis : 1:1-6:8 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=1)

Haftarah PortionIsaiah 42:5 - 43:10 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1)

[Sephania]

LOL - mine says to go to war, defeat enemies and take prisoners....

hubby was B'resheet, born just after Simchat Torah :) Ha, Henaynei, I see you taking no prisoners! ;)

[Sephania]

LOL, I discovered that I had the first bit of my Torah Portion mostly memorized!



Torah PortionBereshit, Genesis : 1:1-6:8 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=1)

Haftarah PortionIsaiah 42:5 - 43:10 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1)

Ahhhhhhhh, you are blessed, you are a bride. :thumbsup: :prayer: :clap:

[Tishri1]

Torah PortionChayey Sarah, Genesis : 23:1-25:18 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=573)
Haftarah PortionKings 1 1:1 - 1:31 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=112)

hmmmmmm I dont get how these two go together:scratch::wave:

[Elisheva413]

:wave: Shalom All! This is really cool.

Go and find out what the Torah portion was for the day you were born.

Find your birth parsha (http://bible.ort.org/books/cald5.asp)


You will also find out if you were born on Shabbat or not ( in case you didn't know).

:)

I have seen this site before, but I only looked up my kids information, never my own...so this time I checked out mine and I was born on <gulp> Yom Kippur! :eek: Hmmmm....does that mean something? Well, anyway, I read through the torah portion and it is funny, the relation I have to some of these particular verses. Especially the last one: Is 58:13-14, we say that every erev Shabbat in our home, it is in my little Shabbat booklet I made for us to use as a family. Thanks for sharing that site again...very interesting!
Shalom~

[shmuel]

Torah PortionChayey Sarah, Genesis : 23:1-25:18 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=573)
Haftarah PortionKings 1 1:1 - 1:31 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=112)

hmmmmmm I dont get how these two go together:scratch::wave:

Genesis speaks of the successor to Sara (Rivkah) ans I Kings speaks of the successor to David (Shlomoh).

[Sephania]

Has anyone else had a chance to read the portions for the week they were born and have your received any special blessings or insights from the L-RD by reading it?

:)

[Henaynei]

BTW - these readings are not necessarily for your birth date, but for your 13th birthday. Under certain circumstances these may not be exactly the same :) FYI

[Henaynei]

Look at them all!! WOW :)

Ki Tetse

D'varim 21:10-25:19

21:10
When you wage war against your enemies, God will give you victory over them, so that you will take captives.

11
and you see among the prisoners a woman who looks good to you, and you feel attracted to her and want her as your wife;

15
"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and unloved wives have borne him children, and if the firstborn son is the child of the unloved wife;

18
"If a man has a stubborn, rebellious son who will not obey what his father or mother says, and even after they discipline him he still refuses to pay attention to them;

22
"If someone has committed a capital crime and is put to death, then hung on a tree,

22:1
You are not to watch your brother's ox or sheep straying and behave as if you hadn't seen it; you must bring them back to your brother.


2
If your brother is not close by, or you don't know who the owner is, you are to bring it home to your house; and it will remain with you until your brother asks for it; then you are to give it back to him.

4
"If you see your brother's donkey or ox collapsed on the road, you may not behave as if you hadn't seen it; you must help him get them up on their feet again.

5
"A woman is not to wear men's clothing, and a man is not to put on women's clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to ADONAI your God.

6
"If, as you are walking along, you happen to see a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground with chicks or eggs, and the mother bird is sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you are not to take the mother with the chicks.


8
"When you build a new house, you must build a low wall around your roof; otherwise someone may fall from it, and you will be responsible for his death.

9
"You are not to sow two kinds of seed between your rows of vines; if you do, both the two harvested crops and the yield from the vines must be forfeited.

10
"You are to make for yourself twisted cords on the four corners of the garment you wrap around yourself.

13
"If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her and then, having come to dislike her,

22
"If a man is found sleeping with a woman who has a husband, both of them must die -the man who went to bed with the woman and the woman too. In this way you will expel such wickedness from Isra'el.

23
"If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man comes upon her in the town and has sexual relations with her;

25
"But if the man comes upon the engaged girl out in the countryside, and the man grabs her and has sexual relations with her, then only the man who had intercourse with her is to die.

28
"If a man comes upon a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and he grabs her and has sexual relations with her, and they are caught in the act,

30
"A man is not to take his father's wife, thus violating his father's rights.

23:1
"A man with crushed or damaged private parts may not enter the assembly of ADONAI.

2
"A mamzer may not enter the assembly of ADONAI, nor may his descendants down to the tenth generation enter the assembly of ADONAI.

3
"No 'Amoni or Mo'avi may enter the assembly of ADONAI, nor may any of his descendants down to the tenth generation ever enter the assembly of ADONAI,

7
"But you are not to detest an Edomi, because he is your brother; and you are not to detest an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

9
"When you are in camp, at war with your enemies, you are to guard yourself against anything bad.

10
If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp; he is not to enter the camp.

11
Also you are to have an area outside the camp to use as a latrine.

15
"If a slave has escaped from his master and taken refuge with you, you are not to hand him back to his master.

17
"No woman of Isra'el is to engage in ritual prostitution, and no man of Isra'el is to engage in ritual homosexual prostitution.

19
"You are not to lend at interest to your brother, no matter whether the loan is of money, food or anything else that can earn interest.

21
"When you make a vow to ADONAI your God, you are not to delay in fulfilling it, for ADONAI your God will certainly demand it of you, and your failure to do so will be your sin.

25
When you enter your neighbor's field of growing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you are not to put a sickle to your neighbor's grain.

24:1
"Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house.

5
"If a man has recently married his wife, he is not to be subject to military service; he is to be free of external obligations and left at home for one year to make his new wife happy.

6
"No one may take a mill or even an upper millstone as collateral for a loan, because that would be taking as collateral the debtor's very means of sustenance.

7
"No one may take a mill or even an upper millstone as collateral for a loan, because that would be taking as collateral the debtor's very means of sustenance.

8
"When there is an outbreak of tzara'at, be careful to observe and do just what the cohanim, who are L'vi'im, teach you. Take care to do as I ordered them.

10
"When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you are not to enter his house to take his collateral.

14
"You are not to exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or a foreigner living in your land in your town.

16
"Fathers are not to be executed for the children, nor are children to be executed for the fathers; every person will be executed for his own sin.

17
"You are not to deprive the foreigner or the orphan of the justice which is his due, and you are not to take a widow's clothing as collateral for a loan.

19
"When harvesting the grain in your field, if you forgot a sheaf of grain there, you are not to go back and get it; it will remain there for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, so that ADONAI your God will bless you in all the work you do.
25:1
"If people have a dispute, seek its resolution in court, and the judges render a decision in favor of the righteous one and condemning the wicked one;
4
"You are not to muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
5
"If brothers live together, and one of them dies childless, his widow is not to marry someone unrelated to him; her husband's brother is to go to her and perform the duty of a brother-in-law by marrying her.

11
"If men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one comes up to help her husband get away from the man attacking him by grabbing the attacker's private parts with her hand,
13
"You are not to have in your pack two sets of weights, one heavy, the other light

17
"Remember what 'Amalek did to you on the road as you were coming out of Egypt,

[visionary]

Can I clarify something, my torah reading was Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 and the Haftara portion is Isaiah 60:1-60:22

So what does the last numbers refer to? Does it mean read Deuteronomy chapter 26, verses 1 to 29 - and then chapter 8?

Are these the readings for your birth year? and what is the Haftarah?

I heard that each day and year has a name, like September 11 1999, is named 'The year when everything changes' and also 'The year when the judgement of the nations begins' - this is from memory so may be slightly incorrect - but is it true? and is there a site that would calculate it?I never heard that before.

[visionary]

Torah Portion
Balak, Numbers : 22:2-25:9

Balak 22:2
When Balak son of Tzippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,

Vayar Balak ben-Tsipor et kol-asher-asah Yisra'el la-Emori.

22:3 the Moabites became deathly afraid because the [Israelite] people were so numerous. Dreading the Israelites,

Vayagor Moav mipeney ha'am me'od ki rav-hu vayakots Moav mipeney beney Yisra'el.
Balak
See Joshua 24:9, Judges 11:25, Micah 6:5. Balak was a descendant of Lot (BeMidbar Rabbah 20:19). According to tradition, he was the ancestor of Ruth

Haftarah Portion
Micah 5:6 - 6:8

5:6 Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples; like dew from God, like showers upon the grass, which are not looked for from man, nor awaited by the sons of men.

Vehayah sherit Ya'akov bekerev amim rabim ketal me'et Adonay kirvivim aley-esev asher lo-yekaveh le'ish velo yeyachel livney adam.

5:7 And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which if he passes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no deliverer.

Vehayah sherit Ya'akov bagoyim bekerev amim rabim ke'aryeh bevahamot ya'ar kichfir be'edrey-tson asher im-avar veramas vetaraf ve'eyn matsil. I do not know of what spiritual blessings I would receive from such verse?

[Sephania]

I think these are two profound and beautiful verses to pounder:

Micah 6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Amein!

[Sephania]

Just a note for those reading their parshas, of course the whole parsha won't speak directly to you, but there should be some part of it that should ring a bell or you should feel a stirring when you read it. Remember this would be your parsha if you were bar/bat mitzvahed, and you would have to do a drash on this, and speak on what it means to you, ( in some synogogues).

I know when I read mine, there were a few verses that really tugged at my heart and I felt that they were written for me, so I was hoping it would be that way for everyone.

[Sephania]

BTW - these readings are not necessarily for your birth date, but for your 13th birthday. Under certain circumstances these may not be exactly the same :) FYI

Yes they are,they are only different in the Roman/Greco calendar, they are based on what Hebrew date you were born, but they don't ask you for that hebrew date, they calculate it for you, so the date given for your Bar/Bat mitzvah is when it would be by that Hebrew calendar date, not the R/G one.

Example: If you were born on May 7 ,1970 and you put that in the calculator on that site, you would get a Bar/Bat Mitzvah date of April 14, 1983 but it would still be your hebrew birthday of Iyar 1 .

So the parshas are correct as they always follow your Hebrew birthday. :)

[Henaynei]

Yes they are,they are only different in the Roman/Greco calendar, they are based on what Hebrew date you were born, but they don't ask you for that hebrew date, they calculate it for you, so the date given for your Bar/Bat mitzvah is when it would be by that Hebrew calendar date, not the R/G one.

Example: If you were born on May 7 ,1970 and you put that in the calculator on that site, you would get a Bar/Bat Mitzvah date of April 14, 1983 but it would still be your hebrew birthday of Iyar 1 .

So the parshas are correct as they always follow your Hebrew birthday. :)not to put too fine a point on the thing.... but if your bar mitzvah fell on a year that was or was not a leap year, the parasha for your bar mitzvah may or may not be a double and your actual birth date parasha may or may not be a single ;)

[Sephania]

Double, Single? Sorry, drawing a blank here? :confused:

[Sephania]

not to put too fine a point on the thing.... but if your bar mitzvah fell on a year that was or was not a leap year, the parasha for your bar mitzvah may or may not be a double and your actual birth date parasha may or may not be a single ;)

OK, I see what you are saying, I checked it out mathematically with two sources and from what I can ascertain ( on a sleepy Shabbat afternoon) :) they are giving the parsha for your actual Hebrew birthday, disregarding leap years.

For example someone born June 5 1960 which is not a leap year but their 13th birthday would be a leap year the 14th year of the 19 year cycle to be exact. their Hebrew birthday would be Silvan 10 5720, and that is the date given for the BM, 10 Silvan 5733 ( 1973) June 10th, 1973.

Using the Chabad convertor for this info

http://www.chabad.org/calendar/1000year.asp?AID=6225

[Henaynei]

there are 54 weekly portions - however the Jewish year varies in length - it runs a cycle of 19 years in which various years have more weeks (7 times in those 19 years - 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th years of this cycle are leap years) - the "leap" year is those in which you will find 2 Adars -

you may have been born in a "normal" year (when each parasha has it's own week) or in a year when there were fewer weeks and where several of the parashot get doubled up!! AND what id you were born in AdarII but your bar mitzvah falls in a year where there is no AdarII? ;)

[Henaynei]

at that site - note that there are different parashot for the Bar and Bat mitzvah ;)

[Henaynei]

MONTH .........COMMON YEAR ............LEAP YEAR
1 Tishri ..........30 30 30 ....................30 30 30
2 Heshvan .....29 29 30 ....................29 29 30 (variable)
3 Kislev .........29 30 30 ....................29 30 30 (variable)
4 Tevet .........29 29 29 .....................29 29 29
5 Shevat .......30 30 30 .....................30 30 30
6 Adar I ........29 29 29 ......................30 30 30 (variable)
7 Adar II ... ....-- -- -- .........................29 29 29 (optional)
8 Nisan .........30 30 30 ......................30 30 30
9 Iyyar .........29 29 29 ......................29 29 29
10 Sivan .......30 30 30 ......................30 30 30
11 Tammuz ...29 29 29 ......................29 29 29
12 Av ...........30 30 30 ......................30 30 30
13 Elul .........29 29 29 ......................29 29 29
....................--- --- --- .......................--- --- ---
..................353 354 355 .................383 384 385

As you can see - years vary from 353 to 385 in the number of days

other concers that affect this all include:

Tishri 1 must never be Sunday, Wednesday or Friday. (This is largely to prevent certain holidays from occurring on the day before or after the Sabbath.)
If the molad (new moon) occurs on or after noon, Tishri 1 must be delayed.
If it is a common (not leap) year and the molad occurs on Tuesday at or after 3:11:20 A.M., Tishri 1 must be delayed.
If it is the year following a leap year and the molad occurs on Monday at or after 9:32:43 and 1/3 sec, Tishri 1 must be delayed.So if you were born on Heshvan (or Kislev or Adar I) 30th one year, but you Bar Mitzvah falls in a year in which Heshvan (or Kislev or Adar I) has only 29 days - this may well affect what your Parasha is :)

[Sephania]

at that site - note that there are different parashot for the Bar and Bat mitzvah ;)

Diffrent how?

[Henaynei]

Different how? go to the chabad site and calculate your date - once for Bar and once for Bat - you will see a difference :) for some dates...

For instance - 10/16/77 = Cheshvan 4, 5738

The BAR Mitzvah for that date is:
Torah Portion: Parshat Lech-Lecha (http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tdate=10/23/1990)


The BAT Mitzvah for that date is:
Torah Portion: Parshat Noach (http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tdate=11/2/1989)

fact is that boys are Bar Mitzvah'd at 13 and girls at 12 - and this highlights how the parasha of your birth date might not be the one of your Bar Mitzvah - which is the date the first link you posted was computing, it all has to do with when various leap years fell and how many days in your month *that* year - HOWEVER ;)

the chabad link calculates your birth date and from their calendar you CAN find your birth parasha - go to their Date Converter and convert your birth date to Hebrew calendar - then click on the Hebrew date that is displayed and it will take you to a screen with the monthly calendar for that month and year on the right of the screen - just click on the calendar on the Saturday/Shabbat that *follows* your Hebrew Birth date and you have it!!

In my case it is all the same - birth/Bar/Bat - but as I've shown that *may* not be the case for everyone here :)

Shabbat Shalom :wave:

[Henaynei]

Red are Leap years
........1998..............5758........1
........1999..............5759........2
........2000..............5760........3
........2001..............5761........4
........2002.................62.........5
.............3.................63.........6
.............4.................64.........7
.............5.................65.........8
.............6.................66.........9
.............7.................67.......10
.............8.................68.......11
.............9.................69.......12
........2010..............5770........13
............11................71........14
............12................72........15
............13................73........16
............14................74........17
............15................75........18
.........2016............5776........19

[Sephania]

go to the chabad site and calculate your date - once for Bar and once for Bat - you will see a difference :) for some dates...

For instance - 10/16/77 = Cheshvan 4, 5738

The BAR Mitzvah for that date is:
Torah Portion: Parshat Lech-Lecha (http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tdate=10/23/1990)


The BAT Mitzvah for that date is:
Torah Portion: Parshat Noach (http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tdate=11/2/1989)

fact is that boys are Bar Mitzvah'd at 13 and girls at 12 - and this highlights how the parasha of your birth date might not be the one of your Bar Mitzvah - which is the date the first link you posted was computing, it all has to do with when various leap years fell and how many days in your month *that* year - HOWEVER ;)

the chabad link calculates your birth date and from their calendar you CAN find your birth parasha - go to their Date Converter and convert your birth date to Hebrew calendar - then click on the Hebrew date that is displayed and it will take you to a screen with the monthly calendar for that month and year on the right of the screen - just click on the calendar on the Saturday/Shabbat that *follows* your Hebrew Birth date and you have it!!

In my case it is all the same - birth/Bar/Bat - but as I've shown that *may* not be the case for everyone here

Shabbat Shalom :wave: OK, I understand now, the Chabad site. From what I have learned of the bat Mitzvah, it was originally not an Orthodox ceremony( and is less than 100 years old in this country) but they adopted it and they are the ones using the age of 12, whereas the Conservative, Reform, and basically those not Orthodox, follow the same age as the boys, 13.

But dispite all this headache of leap years, and age differences,;) I was happy to know what the reading was on the day I was born. Which was a Shabbat BTW, anyone else born on Shabbat?:)

[Henaynei]

I am Wednesday's child

and my son was born on Sunday :)

[Henaynei]

by Mother Goose
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
_______________________________
Sunday's child is fair of face,
Monday's child is full of grace,
Tuesday's child is full of woe,
Wednesday's child has far to go.
Thursday's child is loving and giving,
Friday's child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Is fair and wise and good and gay.

[Sephania]

Yes, you can definatley tell that it has a Christian background, and was written a long time ago.

I don't think any Shabbat Child should be good and gay. ;)

[Henaynei]

I don't think any Shabbat Child should be good and gay. ;)funny - that is exactly what I think they should be :D

[Henaynei]

bumping for those who may be interested :D

[debi b]

nice rewrite ^_^

[SpiritPsalmist]

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 17 Adar 5727(27 February 1967)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 22 Adar 5727(4 March 1967)



Torah PortionVaYakhel (Ashkenazim), Exodus : 35:1-38:20 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=2530)

Haftarah PortionKings 1 7:40 - 7:50 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=555)

I was born on Shabbat

[Sephania]

Me too! :)
Hi Quaff! :wave:

[Sephania]

funny - that is exactly what I think they should be :D good maybe, but :eek:

[Henaynei]

good maybe, but :eek:dear dear Zayit - at the time this poem was written the word gay meant one with a joyous spirit - the term has been fairly recently co-opted by those who don't mean that at all :)

[dvd_holc]

This was my info...
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 18 Elul 5751(28 August 1991)Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 21 Elul 5751(31 August 1991)
Torah PortionKi Tavo, Deuteronomy : 26:1-29:8 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=5562)
Haftarah PortionIsaiah 60:1 - 60:22 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1185)

Is the Torah portion what was read that day? What is the Haftarah?

[christinepro]

maybe you were born on a festival?:clap:
Mine was Chanukah!

[Henaynei]

This was my info...
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Birthday : 18 Elul 5751(28 August 1991)Bar/Bat Mitzvah Sabbath : 21 Elul 5751(31 August 1991)
Torah PortionKi Tavo, Deuteronomy : 26:1-29:8 (http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displayid&id=5562)
Haftarah PortionIsaiah 60:1 - 60:22 (http://bible.ort.org/books/haftarotd4.asp?action=displayid&id=1185)

Is the Torah portion what was read that day? What is the Haftarah?the Torah portion is that which is read from the Pentatuch (first 5 books) - there is an ancient established cycle of readings that originates from before Yeshua's time..... with each Torah portion is the Haftorah portion and is a companion section from the Prophets which is read and reflects some theme that is found in the Torah portion - sometimes the theme connection is very clear and other times it takes more thought :) the Haftorah portions are also part of the ancient reading cycle. Often one can gleen some insight or motivation from discovering and studying these readings :)

[dvd_holc]

the Torah portion is that which is read from the Pentatuch (first 5 books) - there is an ancient established cycle of readings that originates from before Yeshua's time..... with each Torah portion is the Haftorah portion and is a companion section from the Prophets which is read and reflects some theme that is found in the Torah portion - sometimes the theme connection is very clear and other times it takes more thought :) the Haftorah portions are also part of the ancient reading cycle. Often one can gleen some insight or motivation from discovering and studying these readings :)thanks:)