Jewish Astrology (Pt II) | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | February 10th 2026

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Uh the construction patterns seem to change literally from uh day to day. So I have to recalibrate. Uh anyway, our dedication today is as usual layma forina the shak is and our now standard dedication for the tikun of all of the nishamos from marishon uh till the present till the present day. Um last week we were looking at a very important week we were looking at a very important letter of the Rambam. Uh this is this you might call a quai public letter. Quai public because it was directed to a whole kahila and that was uh the kakamim of provenance. Provence is southern France and southern France. The Rambam had many groupies uh in Provence although he also had many antagonists. The rivet from Ram vended the Rambam's great critic is from Provence as well. Of course, one would say the fact that the Rivid spent so much time analyzing Sometimes there are michelm sometimes the kakam want to communicate spiritual ideas using the medium of superstition that the hamonam believes in. In other words, it's kind of the lavush. It is the garment for a spiritual truth. Now in a related matter, this is not this mentioned in the letter at all. There's a similar type of issue about the idea of demons. Demons, shadmikim. Uh anyone that learns uh garra will see that the garra has many many many that the garra has many many many references to shadim. Shaim meaning demons and midrashim even give the origin of it. It it actually says that for 13 after the death of Cayenne and He uh so I'm sorry after the death of He after Cayenne murdered He so Adam separated from his wife for 130 years that's why Chase was born when Adam was 130 years old and according to the

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