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Jewish views on astrology



In Hebrew, astrology was called hokmat ha-nissayon, ""the wisdom of prognostication"", in distinction to hokmat ha-hizzayon (wisdom of star-seeing, or astronomy). While not a Jewish practice or teaching as such, astrology made its way into the Jewish community, and became especially predominant in some books of Kabbalah.
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