Prayer and Blessings
Is There a Prayer Worth Saying on One’s Birthday?
Question
Hello, respected rabbi!
I, God willing, have a birthday and wanted to know whether there is a prayer or something similar that is good to say on one’s birthday.
Thank you very much, and may you be rewarded with mitzvot!
Answer
Greetings,
It was brought in the book Leket Reshimos Inyanei Tefillah (page 257) that the righteous gaon Rabbi Natan Wachtfogel zt"l, the mashgiach of Lakewood Yeshiva, was asked whether a birthday has significance, and he answered: It is brought that there is an עניין that a person should pray on his birthday. And he said to the questioner: Take a book of Tehillim, say a few chapters, and ask for a good year, success in learning, success in prayer, ask for every good thing. The man asked which chapters to say, and the rabbi answered: Chapter 13 and Chapter 103.
With blessings of good fortune,
Hillel Meirs
