May 4, 2012
Book Reveals True Occult Nature of Judaism
By Michael Hoffman
The soothsayers and augurs of the Talmud and Midrash are fully on display in this revealing study, which celebrates the power and influence of astrology within Rabbinic Judaism (leavened with a few escape clauses in the author's Introduction).
In these pages you'll find Aquarius as the mazal of Yisrael, and Judah as Cancer the Crab!
The vast majority of the revered rabbinic "sages" from the Taanaim through the Rishonim periods practiced and advocated astrology and reincarnation, both of which are part of the magical arts of the earliest pagan cultures, from Egypt to Babylon (Daniel 21:2). This belt of transmission infected the heirs of Pharisaic Judaism, today known as Orthodox Judaism.
The exception to this occultism is the "Rambam," Moses Maimonides, who famously wrote (publicly) against astrology. In this regard he was vastly outnumbered by his brother rabbis -- both his contemporaries and antecedents.
Moreover, for Christians and Black people at least, Maimonides is not exactly a hero since he advocated the murder of Christ and his followers (in "Avodat Kochavim"), and cursed Blacks as subhuman creatures mid-way between the simian and the human (cf. The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 2 [chapter 51]) by Rabbi Maimonides in the uncensored Shlomo Pines translation).
The author of "The Secrets of the Stars," Rabbi Ari Storch, offers a handy and accurate reference to the passages in rabbinic texts highly favorable to astrology and for this reason alone, this book is worth its purchase price.
One caveat: it might be prudent to purchase the first edition, published in 2011. It may be that subsequent editions will be bowdlerized for purposes of hasbara, once it is realized that this book bears witness to all but the most obtuse Christians and goyim that the dogmas of Orthodox Judaism are abhorrent to the Biblical faith (Isaiah 47: 11-15). Any Bible-literate person knows that astrology is an abomination in the eyes of God. Orthodox Judaism with its passion for astrology is convicted of being "full of things from the East" (Isaiah 2:6)
Hoffman is the author of Judaism's Strange Gods
