Astrologers have been fascinating the world with their predictions of future events based on the formation of the stars for millennia. The truth is that most of their wisdom has roots in Torah thought. Being so, one may be inclined to ask some advice from these fortune tellers. The Gemara in states in the name of Rav and Rebbi Yossi that this is strictly forbidden. The source is in the weeks’s Parsha, “Be tamim with Hashem.”. Tamim means to have trust in Hashem and have no concern for what the future holds.
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Rabbi Aharon Dovid Singer
Rosh Kollel, NMB Kollel
Director, South Florida Torah Initiative