Pesach (Passover) seder is in a few days.
What does Next Year in Jerusalem mean to you?If you are not living in Israel, you need to move to Israel NOW!! Pesach Shopping The White plastic film covering the shelves of Chametz is what our local store dose, but a lot of stores remove all Chametz completely weeks before Pesach. All the Dairy is Kosher for Pesach at least a week before Pesach. I personal like Rami Levi Mehadrin in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem. The products have no Kitniyot.
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Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yosef “Today thank God most of the nation of Israel is here in the land of Israel.”Be part of the Majority. Make Aliyah Today!It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna![]() Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il Be sure to try out a Wonder Pot-סיר פלא. It is great when you do not have a Kosher for Pesach large oven. You can use it like an oven on the stovetop.Wonder Pot (Hebrew: סיר פלא, seer peh-leh) is an Israeli invention for baking on top of a gas stove rather than in an oven. It consists of three parts: an aluminium pot shaped like a Bundt pan except smooth-sided rather than fluted, a hooded cover perforated with venting holes, and a thick, round, slightly domed metal disc with a center hole that is placed between the pot and the flame.A Wonder Pot can be used to bake cakes, casseroles, rice, potatoes, apples, and even meat and chicken. |
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Pesach Wonder Pot סיר פלא Recipe – Baked Potato סיר פלא-תפוחי אדמה
You can also Cut up Potatoes, Yams, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Beets, or any vegetable into chunks or slices. Drizzle Olive Oil on top and Bake |
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Pesach Wonder Pot סיר פלא Recipe – Potato Knishes |
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Pesach Wonder Pot סיר פלא Recipe Potato Knishes 5 Cups mashed potatoes 3 eggs ¾ Cup matzoh meal salt and pepper to taste chopped up fresh garlic optional 2 onions olive oil to line pot Brown onions and garlic (if using) in pan. Mix everything except matzoh meal and roll into big balls and roll in matzoh meal, place in wonder baker all around, and bake for ½ hour and check and then another ½ hour til cooked, check so it doesn’t burn. Use a medium flame. Absolutely delicious. |
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Carol Umbehocker’s Delicious Squash Kugel for PassoverBaked Squash Kugel for Passover ½ Cup chopped onions ½ Cup Matzoh meal 2 eggs 1/2 Cup of vegetable oil or 1 stick margarine (Kitniyot) divided in half 1 teaspoon Salt or to taste 1 Tablespoon. sugar ½ teaspoon pepper to taste Wash and cut up the squash. Boil until tender. Drain thoroughly, then mash. Add all ingredients to squash and ½ stick of melted margarine. Melt remaining margarine. Pour mixture into baking dish then spread melted margarine over top and sprinkle with matzo meal. Bake at 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for 1 hour or until top is brown. |
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Pesach Wonder Baker Pot סיר פלא Recipe-Wonder Pot Classic Cake By: Yaara Holtzmanhttp://www.kan-naim.co.il/artical.asp?id=4462 |
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“מתכוני פסח מיוחדים ל”סיר פלאזוכרים את ’סיר-הפלא יש לו תחייה מחודשת מכינים בו עוגות, שאגב לא מביישות אף אופה מקצועית, על… הגאז! מאת: יערה הולצמן
עוגת ’סיר פלא’ קלאסיתהחומרים:
אופן ההכנה:מערבבים את החלמונים עם ¾ כוס סוכר ומוסיפים את קמח תפוחי האדמה, האגוזים, אבקת האפייה, השמן והקינמון. מגררים תפוח עץ או גזר ומוסיפים לתערובת. בנפרד, מקציפים את החלבונים עם ¼ כוס סוכר. מוסיפים לתערובת בתנועות קיפול. משמנים את ’סיר הפלא’ ושופכים פנימה את התערובת. סוגרים את הסיר. מחממים את טבעת המתכת המיוחדת שרוכשים עם סיר ’ואופים’ ע”ג אש בינונית – נמוכה, למשך ¾ שעה. עוגת שלוש שכבותהחומרים:
אופן ההכנה:להקציף חלבונים עם 1 כוס סוכר. בנפרד להקציף חלמונים עם ½ כוס סוכר. להוסיף לתערובת החלמונים שמן, קקאו, קמח תפוחי אדמה ויין.
לשמן את ’סיר הפלא’ ולשפוך את מחצית מתערובת החלמונים לסיר. להוסיף את קצף החלבונים והקוקוס ולשטח על גבי השכבה השנייה בעזרת כף. לשפוך את יתרת תערובת החלמונים מלמעלה. לסגור את הסיר. לחמם את טבעת המתכת המיוחדת שרוכשים עם הסיר ו’לאפות’ ע”ג אש בינונית – נמוכה, למשך ¾ שעה. * הכותבת יערה הולצמן, למדה עיצוב, ועבדה בתור ארט-דירקטורית וקופירייטרית במשרדי פרסום שונים. כיום היא עסוקה בעיקר בגידול ילדים, בישול וספונג’ה, ובין לבין היא גם “חוטאת” בכתיבה. * מובא באדיבות אתר aish של “אש התורה” שהיא רשת בינלאומית וא-פוליטית של מרכזים לחינוך יהודי. |
Special Passover Wonder Pot recipes{This is a traslation into English via Google} Remember the ‘wonder pot?’ The metal pot with a round hole, our grandmothers, used during H’tzna? Well, it has a revival! Since many families have no special oven for Passover and not all of them tend to use the regular oven. Therefore, make cakes, which by the way is not put to shame even a professional baker, the … gas! Wonder Pot Classic CakeIngredients: 6 eggs, separated Preparation: Mix the egg yolks with ¾ cup sugar and add the flour, potatoes, nuts, baking powder, and cinnamon oil. Grate an apple or carrot and add to the mixture. Separately, beat the egg yolks with ¼ cup sugar. Fold add to the mix. Grease the ‘Wonder pot and pour in the mixture. Close the pot. Place the metal ring on the Burner Flang facing up, put the Wonder pot on the ring and bake ‘with on medium heat – Low, for ¾ hour. Three-layer cakeIngredients: 1 ½ cup sugar Preparation: Whisk egg whites with 1 cup of sugar. Separately whisk egg yolks with ½ cup sugar. Add the egg yolk mixture of oil, cocoa, flour, potatoes and wine. Half a bowl of whites put in a bowl of egg yolks wrapping movements. Egg whites add the remaining coconut. Lubricate the ‘Wonder pot and pour half of the egg yolk mixture into the pot. Add the egg whites and coconut and flatten onto the second layer with a spoon. Pour the remaining egg mixture on top. Close the pot. Place the metal ring on the Burner Flang facing up, put the Wonder pot on the ring and ‘bake’ with on medium heat – Low, for ¾ hour. * The author Yaara Holtzman, studied design and worked as art director and copywriter in various advertising agencies. She is currently busy with raising children, cooking and mop up, and in between is also a “sinner” in writing. Excerpted courtesy of a aish of “Aish HaTorah” which is an international network and a-political centers of Jewish Education. |
From epicurious.com Here is a Torte without Potato flour or Potato Starch that normally contains Sulfites used as a preservative or whitening agent that is lethal to asthmatics.
Mock Chestnut Torteby Marcy Goldman | Epicurious 1998 A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking Mock Chestnut Torte ingredientsTorte
Chocolate Ganache Glaze
Toppings
preparationPreheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9-inch springform pan with baking parchment. In another bowl, with clean beaters, whip the egg whites gently until they are a bit foamy. Then add in the salt and whip on a higher speed, slowly dusting in the two tablespoons of sugar to form stiff, glossy (but not dry) peaks. Fold one third of the egg whites into the sweet potato/chocolate mixture and work them in well to loosen the batter. Then, gently fold in the remaining egg whites, blending well but taking care not to deflate the mixture. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 40 minutes. The cake rises and looks dry, and slightly cracked on top when done. The middle should be soft but firm. Cool in the pan for 20 minutes, then remove to a wire rack. At this point, the cake can be frozen for up to a month. Even if serving it the same day, chill the cake for an hour or two before finishing it with the ganache glaze. Invert the cake onto a cardboard circle or cake board so that the smooth, flat bottom faces up. Do not be dismayed if this is not a high cake — it is a torte and is meant to be a little less than statuesque. Pour the glaze over the cake and, using a metal spatula, even out the glaze and spread it along the sides. Instead of the glaze, you can also simply sift some cocoa over the top of the cake or decorate it with curls of chocolate (using a vegetable peeler and a warmish chocolate bar). The cake can also be offered with a pureed raspberry or strawberry sauce, garnished with chocolate shavings, or left as is, with a citrus leaf, a sweetheart rose, or several berries in the center. Epicurious.com © Condé Nast Digital, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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When Erev Pesach is ShabbatDaily Halachic Corner – 336 – Pesach 2021 – Rav Dayan Elgrod! |
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Real Pesach in JerusalemThe Passover Recipe That You DON’T Want to Miss!Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yosef “Today thank God most of the nation of Israel is here in the land of Israel.”Be part of the Majority. Make Aliyah Today!It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna![]() Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il Now that the majority of Jews are in their homeland we can have Korban Pesach!Bring out the Mint jelly! Is Korban Pesach Obligatory Today? |
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Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part I – Introduction Published on Dec 19, 2016We must wait for Moshiach to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth?The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth?Building the Holy Temple will cause World War III. Fact or myth?Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world.This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization . SOURCES: *breaking the glass: BT Talmud Berachot 30,31 *fruit was lost: Sotah 9, 12 *all the Torah’s commandments are for all of israel to fulfill – Rambam, Igeret HaShmad (Letter on Persecution), Yitzchak Shilat Edition, Volume I, pp. 57-58 *Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot, Positive Commandments number 20 *Rashi on BT Sukkah 41:a, Ezekiel 43:11 (“so that they keep: They will learn the matters of the measurements from your mouth so that they will know how to do them at the time of the end.”) The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-… |
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Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part II: Falling from Heaven Published on Feb 6, 2017
The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth? Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to this question and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world. This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO: Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot, Shoresh Shlishi Rambam, 13 Principles of Faith, Introduction to Tractate Sanhedrin Rambam, Igeret HaShmad Deut. 29:28 Rambam, Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah 9,1 Sefer HaIkarim 3:16 Maharal Tiferet Yisrael 51 ‘clearly according to halacha it is a mitzva for Israel to build the Beit HaMikdash, Rambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira 1,1 Aruch L’Ner on Sukkah 41.A, on Rashi ‘Ei Nami’ Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvot 20 Or HaChaim on Shemot 25:8 Sifre BaMidbar, 92 S’Mag, Positive Commandments 163 Sanhedrin 17.b, Shavuot 15.a, Jerusalem Sanhedrin 1,3, Rambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira 6,11 The Mitzvot are for Israel to Fulfill (G-d commands, we fulfill); G-d does not do the commandments: Ramchal Derech Hashem 1:2:2; Makot 23b; Devarim 6:24-25; 30:11; Bereshith Rabbah 44:1; Vayikra Rabbah 13:3; Tanchuma, Shemini 8; Midrash Tehillim 18:25; Yalkut Shimoni 2:121; Rambam Moreh Nevuchim 3:26-27; Avodat HaKodesh, Chelek HaAvodah 3; Shnei Luchot HaBrit, Shaar HaGadol 1:48b; Maharal Tiferet Yisrael 7. Opinions of Rashi/Tosafot: Sukkah 41:a, Rosh Hashana 30:a, Shavuot 15:b source for information about R. Y. ben Chanina B’reishith Rabbah 64 Ezekial 43:11, Rashi says ‘so that they will know to do them’ source for R. Yehiel of Paris…Kaftor Va’Ferach, Rabbi Ashtori HaParchi, Chapter 6 The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-… |
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Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part III: Mashiach vs the People Published on Mar 23, 2017
We must wait for the messiah to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth? Quoting directly from Israel’s most illustrious sages, Rabbi Richman explodes myth after myth concerning Moshiach and his role in the building of the Holy Temple. From previous chapters in the Temple Institute’s Holy Temple Myth Busters Series: The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth? Building the Holy Temple will cause World War III. Fact or myth? Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world. This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO: Maimonides Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Beit HaBechira 1,1 Maimonides Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Melachim 11,1 Maimonides Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Melachim 12 Pesikta Rabati 36 Maimonides, Sefer Igeret HaShmad The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-… |
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Holy Temple Myth Busters: Part IV: Korban Pesach: To Be Or Not To Be? Published on Apr 3, 2017 The Passover Offering is a thing of the past. It’s not relevant today. Fact or myth?Quoting directly from Israel’s most illustrious sages, Rabbi Richman explains why it is not only possible to bring the Korban Pesach today, but it is imperative to do so.From previous chapters in the Temple Institute’s Holy Temple Myth Busters Series:We must wait for the messiah to build the Holy Temple. Fact or myth?The Holy Temple will descend ready-made from heaven. Fact or myth?Rabbi Chaim Richman provides the answers from the sources of Torah wisdom to these questions and many more in this multi-part series which will bust all of the myths that have come to clutter Jewish thought concerning the building of the Holy Temple and its significance to the entire world.This video was made possible in part by the Shraga family of the USA, and by the Temple Institute, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization.SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO:Exodus Chapter 12Numbers 9:13Kritot 22:bRambam Hilchot Teshuva 8, 1Rambam Hilchot Biyat HaMikdash, Chapter 4, 7Chasam Sofer Responsa, Yoreh Deah #236R. Ashtori HaParchi, Kaftor V’Ferach, Chapter 6Ya’avetz Responsa, Section I, #99Maharatz Chajes, Kuntrus Acharon, Avodat HaMikdash 76Rambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira Chapter 6, 15Rambam end of Hilchot Klei HaMikdash, Maharatz Chajes Kuntrus Acharon Chapter 2HaRav Tzvi Hersch Kalisher, Drishat Tzion, Additions to Ma’amar Kadishin, Ma’alat Eretz Noshavat 5, Neilat Sha’arimRambam Hilchot Beit HaBechira Chapter 7, 23HaRav Yitzchak Itinga, Respona Mahari, Sec. I, Orach Chaim 88The sources can also be found at https://www.templeinstitute.org/holy-… These sheep are in Jerusalem outside our window |
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Rabbi Sacks http://www.ttidbits.com/1225/1225whole.pdf Why Civilisations DieIn her recent “The Watchman’s Rattle”, subtitled ‘Thinking our way out of extinction’, Rebecca Costa delivers a fascinating account of how civilisations die. Their problems become too complex. Societies reach what she calls a cognitive threshold. They simply can’t chart a path from the present to the future. The example she gives is the Mayans. For a period of three and a half thousand years, between 2600BCE and 900CE, they developed an extraordinary civilisation, spreading over what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize with an estimated population of 15 million people. Not only were they master potters, weavers, architects and farmers. They developed an intricate cylindrical calendar system, with celestial charts to track the movements of the stars and predict weather patterns. They had their own unique form of writing as well as an advanced mathematical system. Most impressively they developed a water-supply infrastructure involving a complex network of reservoirs, canals, dams and levees. Then suddenly, for reasons we still don’t fully understand, the entire system collapsed. Sometime between the middle of the eighth and ninth century the majority of the Mayan people simply disappeared. There have been many theories as to why it happened. It may have been a prolonged drought, overpopulation, internecine wars, a devastating epidemic, food shortages, or a combination of these and other factors. One way or another, having survived for 35 centuries, Mayan civilisation failed and became extinct. Rebecca Costa’s argument is that whatever the causes, the Mayan collapse, like the fall of the Roman Empire, and the Khmer Empire of thirteenth century Cambodia, occurred because problems became too many and complicated for the people of that time and place to solve. There was cognitive overload, and systems broke down. It can happen to any civilisation. It may, she says, be happening to ours. The first sign of breakdown is gridlock. Instead of dealing with what everyone can see are major problems, people continue as usual and simply pass their problems on to the next generation. The second sign is a retreat into irrationality. Since people can no longer cope with the facts, they take refuge in religious consolations. The Mayans took to offering sacrifices. Archeologists have uncovered gruesome evidence of human sacrifice on a vast scale. It seems that, unable to solve their problems rationally, the Mayans focused on placating the gods by manically making offerings to them. So apparently did the Khmer. Which makes the case of Jews and Judaism fascinating. They faced two centuries of crisis under Roman rule between Pompey’s conquest in 63 BCE and the collapse of the Bar Kochba rebellion in 135 CE. They were hopelessly factionalised. Long before the Great Rebellion against Rome and the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews were expecting some major cataclysm. Another was Torah study. The sages interpreted Malachi’s words (1:11), “In every place offerings are presented to My name”, to refer to scholars who study the laws of sacrifice. (Menachot 100a). “One who recites the order of sacrifices is as if he had brought them” (Taanit 27b). Yet another was T’shuva. The Psalm (51:19) says “the sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit.” From this the sages inferred that “if a person repents it is accounted to him as if he had gone up to Jerusalem and built the Temple and the altar and offered on it all the sacrifices ordained in the Torah” (Vayikra Rabba 7:2). What is striking in hindsight is how, rather than clinging obsessively to the past, sages like Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai thought forward to a worstcase-scenario future. The great question raised by Tzav, which is all about different kinds of sacrifice, is not “Why were sacrifices commanded in the first place?” but rather, given how central they were to the religious life of Israel in Temple times, how did Judaism survive without them? Jews did not abandon the past. We still refer constantly to the sacrifices in our prayers. But they did not cling to the past. Nor did they take refuge in irrationality. They thought through the future and created institutions like the synagogue and house of study and school that could be built anywhere and sustain Jewish identity even in the most adverse conditions. That is no small achievement. The world’s greatest civilisations have all, in time, become extinct while Judaism has always survived. In one sense that was surely Divine Providence. But in another it was the foresight of people like Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai who resisted cognitive breakdown, created solutions today for the problems of tomorrow, who did not seek refuge in the irrational, and who quietly built the Jewish future. Surely there is a lesson here for the Jewish people today: Plan generations ahead. Think at least 25 years into the future. Contemplate worst-case scenarios. Ask what we would do, if… What saved the Jewish people was their ability, despite their deep and abiding faith, never to let go of rational thought, and despite their loyalty to the past, to keep planning for the future. |
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JerusalemCats Comment: On the other hand you have this:
This is a very short clip of a much longer video from the The Ruderman Family Foundation on facebook.
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From Esser Agaroth: Rashi suggests the possibility that only 20% of Israel left Egypt, at the time of our great exodus from there. How so? וַיַּסֵּב אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָעָם דֶּרֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּר, יַם-סוּף; וַחֲמֻשִׁים עָלוּ בְנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם. (שמות יג,יח)
On the word hamushim, he offers an alternative translation to “armed.”
Several sources, such as the Kol HaTor, suggest parallels between our exodus from exile in Egypt and how we will complete our exodus from the current exile of Edom, including the possibility that only four fifths of us will make it out this time as well. Who knows? There might even be three days of darkness. However, this time final time around, will these days of darkness necessarily be physical? Instead, they could be spiritual, and unfortunately, the may have already begun for European [or American] Jewry. May our recalling of the exodus from Egyptian exile this Pesach (Passover) inspire those Jews still entrenched in Europe, to complete their own Exodus. JerusalemCats Comment: Something to think about: What percentage of Jews made it out of Spain in 1492. 10%? What percentage of Jews made it out of Europe in 1939 before the Holocaust. 10%?
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Caroline Glick The American Jewish Community’s Moment to Choose |
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As for the risks living in Israel with Hamas, Fatah (PA) and the other crazies;To quote General George S. Patton
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. “ “You (the Arabs) have a choice, The peace of prosperity or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours”
Just look at all the attacks to the Jewish Community in the US!Come home to Israel while you still can.![]() Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna |
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Mistakes That Destroy The Marriage (A Must Watch Lecture) |