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1/29/09

Five Star Rave Review for the Talmud in Comic Form by Yonah Lavery

It's brilliant, long overdue, a Talmudic tour de force. Go see the Talmud in comic form today."
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I view the real world as a chaos of complex systems whose behavior is highly sensitive to slight changes in conditions, so that small alterations can give rise to strikingly great consequences.
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