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14 Pharaoh’s
3 Prophecy, God’s
Astrologers: Liars
Image, Segula
LETTERS
We explore the divine part of dreams, “God’s Image” and quick fixes; segulas.
is astrology
DANI ROTH
An in-depth analysis of astrology’s beliefs, contrasted to Torah’s view.
11 Bashert EDITORIAL
RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
How to approach life’s setbacks.
Why did Moses need a staff for his mission and to perform the miracles?
19 Omens
RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
The problems with this pacifying belief.
13 The Setback
An analysis of Pharaoh’s astrologers’ words reveals their opportunistic lies.
16 Moses’ Staff
5 The “Big Lie” that RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
Torah and talmud elaborate on this idolatrous belief.
21 Truth: 3 Rules MAIMONIDES
Our leader’s rules for accepting truth.
“The great sickness and the “grievous evil” (Eccles. 5:12, 15) consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true—and all the more so if the books are old.” “Know, my masters, that every one of those things concerning judicial astrology that (its adherents) maintain—namely, that something will happen one way and not another, and that the constellation under which one is born will draw him on so that he will be of such and such a kind and so that something will happen to him one way and not another—all those assertions are far from being scientific; they are stupidity. ” MAIMONIDES
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LETTERS RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
Detecting Prophecy in Dreams READER: Rabbi Israel Chait said, “By analyzing and contrasting both dreams [of Pharaoh] we should be able to determine the portion of the dream which is prophetic, and the part which is an expression of his personality. The aspects of his dreams which are duplicated are obviously of divine origin.” My question: why is duplication a sign of prophecy in dreams? —Howard S. NY
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