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Recipes
Garlic-Maple London Broil
In classic Kinyan Hamesechta form, whose premise is chazarah, chazarah, chazarah, left the gourmet food waiting as they proceeded to take out their Gemaras and review the last few lines again and again Achaburah in Minneapolis, Minnesota, led by Rabbi Shloime Rothstein, celebrated a siyum on Makkos recently, as part of the Kinyan Hamasechta program.
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Easy Homemade Waffles
In classic Kinyan Hamesechta form, whose premise is chazarah, chazarah, chazarah, left the gourmet food waiting as they proceeded to take out their Gemaras and review the last few lines again and again Achaburah in Minneapolis, Minnesota, led by Rabbi Shloime Rothstein, celebrated a siyum on Makkos recently, as part of the Kinyan Hamasechta program.
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Shin-Tav
In classic Kinyan Hamesechta form, whose premise is chazarah, chazarah, chazarah, left the gourmet food waiting as they proceeded to take out their Gemaras and review the last few lines again and again Achaburah in Minneapolis, Minnesota, led by Rabbi Shloime Rothstein, celebrated a siyum on Makkos recently, as part of the Kinyan Hamasechta program.
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