Commentary for Shabbat 312:8

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> איתמר (ער"ל שח"ז סימן) אמר עולא הלכה כרבי יהודה (ושמואל אמר הלכה כר"ש)

From R. Nahman b. Isaac too [we learn that] Israel is free from planetary influence. For R. Nahman b. Isaac's mother was told by astrologers, Your son will be a thief. [So] she did not let him [be] bareheaded, saying to him, 'Cover your head so that the fear of heaven may be upon you, and pray [for mercy]'. Now, he did not know why she spoke that to him. One day he was sitting and studying under a palm tree; temptation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'the evil inclination'. ');">¹³</span> overcame him, he climbed up and bit off a cluster [of dates] with his teeth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The tree did not belong to him. — This story shows that head-covering was not de rigeur, though regarded as conducive to piety. — From these stories we see that belief in planetary influence was not entirely rejected, but that these Rabbis held that it might be counteracted by good deeds. ');">¹⁴</span>

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