The Idiot’s Guide to Macrame Theory

Rabbi Oud Ramonides is worried. His son, Yachin, has suddenly developed an interest in left-wing trendy things, and is trying to reconcile Higgs boson with String Theory. Kugarita Zinfandel (daughter and sister respectively) assumes it is a talmudic thing - and indeed there was much advanced mathematical thinking amongst the brethren (even before Maimonides) that still remains to be rediscovered. Unfortunately, when the revered scholar Oud appears before his son and daughter, he forgets he is still wearing his shorts (an unheard of precedent). Luckily, far to the north, the Thane of Baile na Drochaid has (with the help of Demon Baal) written the definitive Idiot’s Guide to Macrame Theory, which he sends Kugarita, who passes it on to her brother.