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Who knows three hundred nine?

?תשעה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע


Swim not in the waters of lazy gematria.

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@WAF I seem to have been using the British convention. Oops. Thanks. –  Isaac Moses Dec 13 '12 at 22:08

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Avraham Avinu called the Makom HaMikdash "Har".

Yitchok Avinu called it "Sadeh" - שדה = 309

Yaakov Avinu called it "Bayis"





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Off-topic but:

The number of Egyptian aircraft destroyed in the first morning of the Six-Day War is disputed, but some give it as 309 (others give that number as destroyed by some later point in the war).

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Not off-topic if you consider these events to be part of a miraculous triumph that's the subject of religious observance. If you do, then it's approximately equivalent to the number of Greek elephants killed by the Maccabim, as reported (if it is - I don't know) in the book named after them\, and almost equivalent to the number of Persian attackers killed by Jews, as reported in Esther (but not quite because the latter is recorded in the Scripture). –  Isaac Moses Dec 4 '12 at 19:21

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