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Thousands of years ago, man already began to study the heavenly bodies and explore all of the knowledge and information that they might contain. They explored the connection between these celestial bodies and man's character and fate. Divination, or as it is known today astrology, was a central directing force among many: including kings and rulers. What is Astrology, anyway? how reliable is it? How does Judaism view astrology? Is our future really preordained and predetermined? Can we alter our fate in any way? Learn all this and more in Rabbi Zamir Cohen's fascinating lecture: Astrology and the future: A kabbalist persceptive.

Hello and good evening. Our lecture tonight deals with a topic that preoccupies many people. We all think about it every once in a while during our hectic lives. After all we all work hard, toil, struggle to achieve something or other. And often people ask themselves: is everything truly in our hands? Or is there a divine decree that has predetermined everything? In that case, there is little that we can do to alter this decree. This question becomes especially important during times in one's life when he or she feels that they are being controlled. A person sets out on a certain course, but all of his efforts are futile. As much as he struggles and tries, everything leads him down a different road. At times like that, a person feels that he's led and controlled by higher power, by a force greater than him. he than asks himself. Is there truly a higher power? Is everything mere coincidence and chance? If there really is a higher power, does it preordain our lives? If everything is indeed predetermined, can I alter my fate in any way? Can I exact over my life? Every reasonable person should conclude that there is a higher power. One need only look at our wonderous world to see that someone must have planned and designed it, with outmost care. Creation is indicative of a creator.

A program or plan is evidence of the presence of a master planner. Even if we, the creations, cannot see the creator, he is still there. If I am with a close friend, we can see one another. We're on equal ground. But when it comes to a creator and his creations, the situation is different. The Torah states that a man cannot see G-d and continue to live. As a creation, can I truly see and understand my creator? Can I possibly graps the essence of my creator? The Zohar states that our cognitive processes cannot possibly fathom our creator and his true essence. Not only can we not see G-d with our eyes of flesh and blood, but we cannot even begin to grasp G - d's true essence. We don't have the capacity to understand who G-d really is. G-d is beyond man's cognition and perception. We can see this even when we look at the names we give G-d. Yud Hey Vav Hey, for instance. This is real name of G-d. We are not allowed to pronounce it in full, or the name Elokim. Yud Hey Vav Hey is the name for the G-d of love and compassion. Elokim is the name for the G-d of wrath and judgement. Both of these names describe G-d's way of dealing with us. When we see kindness and grace in our world, we can say that G-d acted under the moniker yud hey vav hey. But if we see justice and wrath in the world, we say that G-d now acted as Elokim, the G-d of judgement. To sum up,it is plainly evident that a higher power exists, if we only bother to look around us. Some people feel the presence of a creator within, and don't need any further evidence. However, even if one has a more turbulent and curious soul, and needs rational proof and hard evidence for G-d's existence, he can explore and examine the world and find abundent proof.

A table, for instance says much about the carpenter who made it, and house speaks volumes about the contractor who built it. We do not need to see the carpenter or contractor to know that and a house speaks volumes about the contractor who built it. We do not to see the carpenter or contractor to know that the table and house did not come into being on their own. The creation is proof of the creator's existence.

The big question is did the creator of our world preordain our fate? Am I doomed, for instance, to live with a certain type of personality? Are our fates and destinies likewise predetermined? These are two separate issues: our character and our fate. By charcter I mean our personality traits, our behavior patterns. By fate I mean what life places in our path. This has to do with matters of health, happiness, beauty, and so forth. These are things that relate to a person's fortune or lot in life. As I previously mentioned, at certain points in all of our lives, we stop and say that we are being directed by a higher power. We then get scared, and maintain that these things are out of our hands. We cannot do anything about them, we cannot alter them in any way.

In tonight's lecture, we'll examine the Torah's view on these matters, But first let us see what astrology has to say about these issues. Namely, what does astrology say about our fate, our destines. We will also look at what science has to say about this, especially in the light of the discovery of the human genome. is everything imbeded in us ahead of time? Finally we will examine the Kabbala perspective on this, And we can see how things become clear and illuminated, with wonderful guidance from our Rabbis as to how to live a full and fulfilling life, both as pertains to our character, and as pertains to our fate or lot in life.

What is Astrology, after all?

Astrology maintains that by studying the configuration of the stars, the shapes of the stars, and the so called astrological signs, we can predict the fate and life course of an infant, when we study his star chart at the time of birth. if we examine the state and shape of the stars...In the past astrologers looked mainly to the seven planets in our solar system, but later three additional planets were discovered. And modern astrology integrate these new planets into its workings.If we examine the configuration of the planets at the time of birth, we can predict the fate and destiny of the individual involved. This is astrology's central tenet. These ideas are, therefore, rather complex and often very intricate. Ancient astrologers belived that the stars themselves had certain mystical powers. They believed the planets had a supernatural influnce on us. This led to them worshipping the stars and constellations. In many of our sages writings, we see the initials AKUM, which refer to the pagan worshipers of the stars and their signs. These pagans would bow down to and worship the sun, the moon and stars, and give them the names of various gods and godesses. They also worsipped the various star signs and constellations. The Pagans believed these celestial orbs held a power all their own.

Judaism does not claim that Astrology is completly spurious or false. It claims that astrology has some validity, but should be taken with a grain of salt. However, Judaism claims that we cannot attribute mystical powers to the stars. Like the Book of Creation states, there is only one creator above all. All of creation, this book states, came to be using 22 Hebrew letters. All of creation thus came into being using letters and words. God declared " let there be light", and the light then came to be. This spiritual energy in the letters alef, vav and reish thus came together, and created the reality that we know as "or" or "light".The more letters in a word, the more different combinations of letters there are, and the more potential to create different realities. Therefore, according to the book of creation, some Talmudic sages were able to create an actual human being, and form various animals.

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Why were these names given to the various star signs? When a certain sign is dominant, the stars form a configuration that, for instance, resembles a lion or a ram.

if we "connect" the dots between the various stars, we can see the form of a lion, during the star sign of sagittarius, or of twins during the star sign of Gemini.

You need quite a bit of imagination to see these shapes in the stars, but the ancients saw them neverteless, and gave the signs their names. Later these things were investigated and measured, if you will.

Astrology is thus a science, if you can call it by such name. Some people maintain that astrology is more intuition than sceince, but According to Judaism, astrology is a little bit of both these things. But in the Non-Jewish world, a debate still wages whether astrology is a science or not.

Proponents of Astrology claim that astrology is a bona fide science. While others insist that it is a an art, and depends on intution and emotion.

Judaism insists that both of these claims are true. astrology is part science, with accurate charts and data, but uncovering the details of what will occur in the future, is something else entirely.

When astrologers claim that such will occur, they need to utilize a great deal of imagination as well as intuition. It is thus very difficult to draw accurate conclusions,The names of the stars, and the notion of astrology are very ancient.

Our sages say that Avraham our forefather was well versed in astrology. Avraham lived well over 4,000 years ago, and knew about astrology. He told Hashem that he foresaw in the stars that he would be childless. G-d told Avraham to abandon this blind belief in astrology. Which leads to another question: can one alter his or her fate or destiny?

In the Talmud, in Masechet Shabbat on page 156,our sages explain how the hours and days of the week are structured. The days in a month, as we had indicated, change daily and alter what we call the various star signs.

But the days in a week belong to an entirely different system. The Gemara states the following: When Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi, one of the great Misha scholars, passed a way, the following was found written in his notebook: A man who was born on a sunday, will be a leader in one form or anoher.

He will either be a chief Rabbi,or a master culprit or thief. Rabbi Yehoshua states that he and his friend were both born on Sunday. He, the Rabbi, became a leader, president of his Yeshiva and a true Torah great of his generation, while his friend, also born on Sunday, became an arch-criminal and thief.

This is at the heart of what we will be talking about next. Man always has a choice in life. Even if a person has certain gifts or powers because he was born on acertain day of the week, they do not necessarily have to be utilized to achieve negative things.

They might very well be used in order to accomplish things that are good and positive. In other worlds, a person has this power or ability, but there are always two sides to everything. These powers can be used for either good, or for ill.

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