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The Forbidden Side of Astrology (What the Torah Reveals)

1.6K views · Nov 9, 2025

Rabbi Shais Taub

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  1. 0:00Astrology in Judaism is so confusing because we have so many mixed messages. We have thousands…
  2. 1:02spells, incantations, they took blood and hair from animals and they did all these things in…
  3. 2:38constellations in order to get something from them okay now I'm going to ask a question…
  4. 4:12>> Okay. Yes. Fine. So that step one that's clearly prohibited. Fine. All right. >> Then…
  5. 5:46officially not considered a planet anymore. We still call it a planet, >> right? If you're…
  6. 7:23language and comes from the the Norse gods but the point is like this >> it…
  7. 8:26You can become a moell, a circumciser. You can become a a bloodletter. You can channel…
  8. 10:00>> that's modern day Iraq, >> right? >> You know, isn't is that where Abraham came…
  9. 11:37to to worship Hashem, he said the astrologers said, "No, we see that Rah, the planet…
  10. 13:16him a letter. a famous letter that he wrote from the the Jews from France wrote…

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