Musar for Shabbat 311:14

אמר לפניו רבש"ע נסתכלתי באיצטגנינות שלי ואיני ראוי להוליד בן אמר ליה צא מאיצטגנינות שלך שאין מזל לישראל מאי דעתיך

they are dismayed but not Israel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Israel being uninfluenced by 'the signs of heaven'. ');">³⁷</span> Rab too holds that Israel is immune from planetary influence. For Rab Judah said in Rab's name: How do we know that Israel is immune from planetary influence? Because it is said, and he brought him forth from abroad.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XV, 5, q.v. ');">³⁸</span> Abraham pleaded before the Holy One, blessed be He, 'Sovereign of the Universe! one born in mine house is mine heir.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 3. ');">³⁹</span> 'Not so,' He replied, 'but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 4. ');">⁴⁰</span> 'Sovereign of the Universe!' cried he, 'I have looked at my constellation and find that I am not fated to beget child.' 'Go forth from [i.e., cease] thy planet [gazing], for Israel is free from planetary influence. What is thy calculation?

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