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Is it because Jupiter is situated in the west that you cannot have children? I will restore it and establish it in the east. And that is the meaning of that which is written with regard to Abraham: “Who has raised up one from the east, he will call justice [tzedek] to his steps [leraglo]. He gives
And from that which transpired to Shmuel, one can also conclude that there is no constellation for the Jewish people. The Talmud relates that Shmuel and the non-Jew sage Ablet were sitting, and they saw these people were going to the lake. Ablet said to Shmuel: This person will go and he will not
Ablet stood up, threw down the person’s burden, and inside he found a snake cut and cast in two pieces. Shmuel said to him: What did you do to merit being saved from death? The person said to him: Every day we all take bread together and eat from the bread. Today, there was one of us who did not hav
And from that which transpired to R' Akiva as well it can be derived that there is no constellation for the Jewish people, as R' Akiva had a daughter, and Chaldean astrologers told him that on the same day that she enters the wedding canopy, a snake will bite her and she will die. She was very worri
Her father R' Akiva said to her: What did you do to merit being saved from the snake? She told him: In the evening a poor person came and knocked on the door, and everyone was preoccupied with the feast and nobody heard him. I stood and took the portion that you had given me and gave it to him. R'