Notes from Limmud '05: Hope Springs Eternal: A Look At The Hatikvah

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Notes from the Marom Beit Midrash: Founding Myths of the Jewish Diaspora

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Great Misunderstood Proverbs of my youth, number 1432

"A stitch in time saves nine?" But what can that mean? I know we talk about the fabric of spacetime, but how can you put a stitch through it? And how can doing save nine people? Who are these nine people, and how did they get into such a situation that only putting a stich in time could save them?