The Jewish Birthday Plaque
The Jewish Birthday Plaque is a gift for your beloved or friends. The plaque suits the commemorating events of a child’s traditional Jewish education or the commemoration of every round decade of any person’s adult life, according to the appropriate citation from the Mishnah (Pirkei Avot) referring to that age (see list below).
The Jewish Birthday Plaque is available in two versions:
Inscription from top to bottom:
- Mazel Tov (Hebrew)
- Person's Name (English)
- Age citation (Hebrew) see list below
- Pirkei Avot 5 (English)
- Common and Jewish date(English)
Inscription from top to bottom:
- Mazel Tov (Hebrew)
- Person's Name (Hebrew)
- Age citation (Hebrew) see list below
- Pirkei Avot 5 (Hebrew)
- Jewish date (Hebrew)
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The Jewish Birthday Plaque comes framed. The color options you can choose in the shopping cart are hue (Sea or Earth) and the size is 9 1/2' x 7 1/2'.
Price: $43.60
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Jewish Life Milestones
You will be able to choose the age inscription in the shopping cart. The following list presents every age-stage with its prescribed personal activity or achievement.
For the text, we have retained the more traditional Hebrew spelling that appears in earlier printings, but facilitate a more fluent reading by adding the vowels (nikud). Thus, the mentioned life milestones are:
| Age 5 |
"At the age of five (a child is to start studying) the Bible"
having learned to read before then). |
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| Age 10 |
"At ten (a child is to start studying) the Mishna". |
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| Age 13 |
"At thirteen (a boy becomes Bar Mitzvah, and from then on is obligated) to obey the Commandments" |
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| Age 15 |
"At fifteen (one is to begin studying) the Talmud"
(the early explanation of the Mishnah, compiled, separately, in Palestine in 400 AD/CE and in Babylonia in 500 AD/CE) |
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| Age 18 |
"At eighteen (a person is to stand beneath) a wedding canopy" (marry and start one’s own family) |
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From that age on, Pirke Avot mentions adult people’s activities or achievements only every round decade of their life:
| Age 20 |
"At twenty, (a person) pursues" (either the enemy or life’s goals) |
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| Age 30 |
"At thirty (a person) has strength" |
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| Age 40 |
"At forty (a person gains) understanding" |
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| Age 50 |
"At fifty (a person can) advise" |
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| Age 60 |
"At sixty (a person) is old" (and therefore wise) |
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| Age 70 |
"At seventy (a person has) white hair" (and is respected) |
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| Age 80 |
"At eighty (a person is considered) a hero" (for achieving that ripe old age) |
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| Age 90 |
"At ninety (a person) is bent over" (with age) |
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The Jewish Birthday in the Mishnah
Traditionally, Judaism commemorates only a birthday thought to be signifying a meaningful stage in a person’s development, and not all birthdays are deemed important and worthy of a celebration.
These traditionally significant stages are based on the list in Pirkei Avot or Masechet Avot(Sayings of the Fathers, Ethics of the Fathers or simply Ethics).
The list is identical to that in the earlier corresponding Masechet Avot (Fathers’ Tractate, chiefly a convention of maxims and practical morals pronounced by Jewish Elders).
The Tract is incorporated in the Mishnah (mainly the early explanation of the Commandments in the Bible, compiled 200 AD/CE).
Though various editions of Masechet Avot differ on the precise location of the list in the Tract, all present it at the end of chapter five. |
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