When terrorists stormed into Rachel Edri’s home in Ofakim, Israel on October 7, taking her and her husband hostage and barricading themselves in her home, she stayed calm. She offered them snacks, including her home-baked cookies. She chatted with them, offering to bandage an injury for one. Eventually, counter-terrorist forces arrived and ended the Edris’ long ordeal.
As the war with Hamas continues, Jewish people are preparing to mark the festival of Purim, which celebrates our nation’s salvation from a plot of extermination. On Purim, we eat hamantashen, triangular cookies that recall the downfall of the wicked Haman and G-d’s salvation of the Jewish People.
This Purim, there’s another cookie we can add to the menu: the cookies that Rachel Edri used to thwart the evil plans of those terrorists on that dark day.
Rachel recently shared her recipe, which we are including here (amounts have been translated from metric to imperial).
2 c. flour
½ c. brown sugar
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
2 eggs
⅔ c. softened butter (substitute margarine for the butter for a pareve option).
8 oz chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350°F
Combine ingredients in a large bowl. Form the cookie dough into small balls about 1” in diameter and flatten slightly. Place cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving 1” of space between cookies. Bake for 14 minutes and allow to cool.
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Matthew George Hall
My mother and I do not misrepresent the truth here always made the best tasting wholesome perfect, chocolate chip cookies! Always comforted and also eased our growing anxiety that comes with teen hood. Without mom’s cookies I would not have made it out of high school I almost feel that is correct. They sure were obvious signs of love to my three siblings and I, the oldest. Happy Mother’s day to Darlene Hall, my mom and a grandparent who is very hard working with food, chores of cleaning, services of worship and music, and economically feasible travel via their Toyota Camry which is 12 not new but is still driven so well , and so very safely by my father, Mickey Hall. They are friends of Y’israel, and all the Jewish people. I’ve learned respect love patience from both, my mother& father! I’ve learned throughout my early and current years that Jews may be scapegoated unfairly, abused, discriminated against, and told they are not welcome. Doesn’t change the welcome Hashem has each day for them, and rest of us. I learn reverence for G-d for Hashem from my parents and the Jewish (especially the very religious Jews) people. L’chayim.