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and Yeshua when referring to the Messiah.
The Messiah told His disciples to “remember” Him in His death, but there is not a word in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, which tells us to celebrate His birth. Moreover, who knows exactly when, and in what month, He was born? The Bible is silent thereon. Not surprisingly then, the ancient Jews did not celebrate birthdays, regarding them as Pagan.
HOIM (Hope of Israel Ministries) does not necessarily endorse anything outside or beyond the testimony against the pagan practice of birthday keeping in, or from, any of the information or sources quoted in this article.There is an affinity of such commemoration among the wicked as recorded in The Satanic Bible  regarding Birthdays:
The highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birthday. This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried. The Satanist feels: ‘Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in your image, why not create that god as yourself.” 
(Anton Szandor LaVey, (Air) Book of Lucifer – The Enlightenment, Avon Books, 1969, Ch XI, “Religious Holidays,” p. 96)

Origen of Alexandria, writing over two centuries after the death of Messiah follows this same line when he recorded a diatribe against the memories of birthdays, indicating that at the time of his writing, a day to remember the birth of the Messiah was not part of the church calendar. In his Homilies on Leviticus, speaking on the aspect of birth, Origen states:

…not one from all the saints is found to have celebrated a festive day or a great feast on the day of his birth. No one is found to have had joy on the day of the birth of his son or daughter. Only sinners rejoice over this kind of birthday. For indeed we find in the Old Testament Pharaoh, king of Egypt, celebrating the day of his birth with a festival, and in the New Testament, Herod. However both of  them stained the festival of his birth by shedding human blood….But the saints not only do not celebrate a festival on their birth days, but, filled with the Holy Spirit, they curse that day (after the example of Job, Jeremiah and David).”
(Barkley, Homilies on Leviticus: 1–16 /Origen, 1990, 156.)

Birthday celebrations are actually rooted in paganism.
The Encyclopedia Americana (1991 edition) states:

The ancient world of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Persia celebrated the birthdays of gods, kings, and nobles.”

Authors Ralph and Adelin Linton reveal the underlying reason for this. In their book The Lore of Birthdays, they write:

Mesopotamia and Egypt, the cradles of civilization, were also the first lands in which men remembered and honoured their birthdays. The keeping of birthday records was important in ancient times principally because a birth date was essential for the casting of a horoscope.”

So, there is a direct connection between the Pagan practice of birthday celebrations and astrology (horoscopes and fortune telling).

Also, The World Book Encyclopedia (volume 3, page 416) states:

“”The early Christians did not celebrate His [the Messiah’s] birth because they considered the celebration of anyone’s birth to be a pagan custom.”

To satiate this point, notice also the record of the first century historian Josephus:

The Jews in the Messiah’s day knew YEHOVAH’s attitude toward birthday celebrations, “Nay, indeed, the law does not permit us to make festivals at the births of our children”
(Flavius Josephus, Against Apion, Book II, section 26).

(Wikipedia. Birthdays. July 12, 2007 version).

Christmas is also relevant because December 25th was the day of celebration of the birthday of the sun-god Mithra. The World Book Encyclopedia notes:
(Sechrist. Christmas. World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 3. 1966, pp. 408-417).
Long ago, the average person never paid any attention whatsoever to the anniversary of their birth. The initial pattern that developed concerned the celebrating of the birthday of their deity, once each year, at the winter solstice. This is the origin of Christmas, since the winter solstice was considered the “re-birth” or “birthday” of the solar deity (Natalis Sol Invictus, or the Nativity of Sol, the unconquerable). This alone marks the behaviour as originating from the rebellion against YEHOVAH, Who is the one and only Elohim of Heaven and Earth. Remember that YEHOVAH commanded that we not learn the ways of the heathen (Deuteronomy 12).
Later, people began to celebrate the annual birth of their king at the same time as their deity, aligning their ruler with the same honours given to their deity. In their minds, their ruler became an anthropomorphic version of their deity. In the east, average people slowly began to celebrate their personal “birth day” once each year on what they believed to be “new year’s day.” Eventually, people developed the custom of observing their personal birth day on the annual day they were actually born.
The celebration of birthdays is unknown in traditional Jewish ritual.”
Originally, even as more and more Gentiles began to profess the Messiah (so much so that they outnumbered those of Jewish heritage that did), the early Gentile leaders also did not endorse the celebration of birthdays. No early church writer endorsed the observance of birthdays by Christians, nor are they ever listed in the early observances of the Christian church.
Therefore, the celebration of birthdays, was clearly not part of “the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
Although he was not part of the Ecclesia of YEHOVAH, the writings of the early third century Catholic theologian Origen of Alexandria show that, even that late, Orthodox Catholics were against the celebration of birthdays.The Catholic Encyclopedia states:
(Martindale C. Christmas, 1908).
Christmas is coming! Quite so: but what is “Christmas?” Does not the very term itself denote it’s source — “Christ-mass.” Thus it is of Roman origin, brought over from paganism. But, says someone, Christmas is the time when we commemorate the Saviour’s birth. It is? And WHO authorized such commemoration? Certainly YEHOVAH God did not.
The Messiah bade His disciples “remember” Him in His death, but there is not a word in scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, which tells us to celebrate His birth. Moreover, who knows when, in what month, He was born? The Bible is silent thereon. It is without reason that the only “birthday” commemorations mentioned in YEHOVAH’s Word are Pharaoh’s (Genesis 40:20) and Herod’s (Matthew 14:6)? Is this recorded “for our learning?” If so, have we prayerfully taken it to heart?
Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH)