Contrary to this view, there is Rabbi Yohanan's view that "Israel is not bound by the effects of the changing horoscopes,"Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 156a) who assayed to bring proof from a verse taken from the Prophet Jeremiah: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them." The opinions of Rab, of Samuel and of Rabbi Akiva, however, seem to be supportive of applied astrology, even though the people of Israel are not bound by the influences of the constellations.
