Israeli Grandmother Survives Hamas Terrorists by Offering Food
“I started to talk to them. Have you had something to drink? Would you like tea or coffee?”
Grandmothers are amazing. EAT EAT EAT!
Hamas terrorists held Rachel and David Edri hostage for over 15 hours this weekend in Ofakim, which is not by Gaza.
How did Rachel and David survive?
Food! It started with cookies and coffee but turned into lunch:
“I started to talk to them. Have you had something to drink? Would you like tea or coffee?” she offered, seeking to distract them.
Meanwhile, an elite police force had arrived outside their house, accompanied by her police officer son, who had gotten word of the attack and rushed to his parents’ house. An officer attempted to negotiate with the terrorists to get Rachel released, to no avail.
“No, we will all die,” one of the terrorists responded to an offer to speak with his family by phone, she related.
Edri had the police negotiator bring in coffee and cookies, which they placed at the edge of the room.
“It was like we were in a dream and we did not know what would happen to us,” she recounts.
As the time passed, Edri was concerned that her captors would get agitated due to hunger, and offered them lunch.
Then Rachel talked to the terrorists, making small conversation. She asked them where they lived.
Rachel also used a headache as an excuse for holding up her hand. She really showed a negotiator the house had five terrorists.
One terrorist left and died in the gunfire.
Later on, Rachel offered to tend to a terrorist’s injury on his hand and gave him more food:
As the afternoon wore on, Edri offered to bandage the injured hand of one of the terrorists, and, seeking to soothe him, brought him water as well as some canned pineapple. “You look pallid, “she told him. Take something to eat; you will feel better.”
Special forces eventually rescued the Rachel and David:
At night, Edri was near her husband on the couch, with the four terrorists less than two feet away. In the early morning hours, the rescue team, aided by a drone and the outline of the house that their son had drawn, burst into the home through the roof with a special rescue dog, killing all four terrorists. The Edris escaped unscathed. Rachel’s only injury was an inadvertent scratch from the dog.
“I just don’t know how I am alive,” she recounted on Sunday. “I just don’t know how I am living.”
You can watch the video here: 20 hours with terrorists at home: “I offered them coffee, to distract them”
Rachel Edri, an elderly woman from Ofakim was held hostage for 15 hours by a group of 5 militants.
“Sweetie, you look pale, you need to eat” she recounts telling the guy in charge and offering them a full meal.
When the Israeli commandos stormed the house the 5 militants were… pic.twitter.com/SahcU6vFbT— 𝕄𝕖𝕪𝕖𝕣 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕟 (@MeyerLabin) October 9, 2023
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Like, Jael, Heber’s wife in the Book of Judges (4:21)…good for her!
It’s like she gave them “the bread of life”. Jews await the Messiah – they just disagree with Christians that it’s Yeshua. Even so, she would seem to have held fast to the promise and walked out the word “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you”. Arguably, they hate because the Jews have, and they have not. To feed them is a faithful act of love. Amazing and rare encouragement in this season.
Um, no. The word “messiah” means completely different things to Jews and Christians.
To Jews, a messiah is a completely normal human king, who is born to two human parents, and will die in the normal way. Saul, David, Solomon, Jehoash, Hezekiah, they were all messiahs.
“The” messiah for whom Jews wait will simply be a righteous descendant of the House of David who will lead an army and defeat Israel’s enemies, re-establish it as a monarchy under his family’s rule, rebuild the temple, restore the Sanhedrin’s authority, and eventually die and pass the throne to one of his sons. Saving souls will be no part of his mission, and he will not be even slightly Divine; he will be a “son of God” only in the same sense that we all are. His kingdom will be of this world and this world only.
That’s not at all what Christians mean by “Messiah”. If Jesus were to return from the dead, reveal that he had a human father who was in a direct line of descent from David, and do all of that, Christians would be very disappointed, and would probably not even believe he was the real Jesus. They’d probably call him an antichrist.
MrE, you are correct. Christians, including Messianic Jews, recognize that many of the hundreds of Old Testament prophecies about Messiah are spiritual in nature. Most people at the time of Jesus and before, made the common mistake of interpreting statements materially when they were meant to be understood spiritually. Many or most of the misunderstanding of Jesus’ teachings during His life on earth were because of the same misunderstanding. In hindsight, we can see the spiritual meaning of the prophecies and how Jesus (Yeshua) fulfilled them all. Thank you Jesus, for what you have done.
No, Indiana Guy, that is a Christian view. It is not at all what Jews believe. Not even close.
You are correct to include “Messianic Jews” in the category of Christians; that is what they are. They are not Jews at all, in the religious sense. Some of them (a minority) happen to be Jews by birth, just as is true of regular Christians, and Buddhists, atheists, and all other religions. Hey, Cardinal O’Connor was a Jew by birth; those “Messianic Jews” who are Jewish by birth are exactly as Jewish as he was.
Yeah, yeah, but apart from that, EXACTLY alike.
Somehow the term dissimile comes to mind. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dissimile
“To Jews, a messiah is a completely normal human king, who is born to two human parents, and will die in the normal way.”
And yet every single one of Jesus’ apostles were Jews. In fact, upon the death of Christ there was no such thing as a Christian. That didn’t happen until much later.
This simply goes to show that asking a modern Jew.
Jesus’s disciples did not believe him to be divine. That belief came later, after they were out of the picture. It was a pagan idea introduced by Paul and his pagan recruits.
Unfortunately my computer submitted my comment on its own.
For a 21st century Jew, Two Powers in Heaven is a heresy. For a Second Temple period Jew it was an orthodox belief.
https://drmsh.com/the-naked-bible/two-powers-in-heaven/
“Twenty-five years ago, rabbinical scholar Alan Segal produced what is still the major work on the idea of two powers in heaven in Jewish thought. Segal argued that the two powers idea was not deemed heretical in Jewish theology until the second century C.E. …
In my dissertation (UW-Madison, 2004) I argued that Segal’s instincts were correct. My own work bridges the gap between his book and the Hebrew Bible understood in its Canaanite religious context. I suggest that the “original model” for the two powers idea was the role of the vice-regent of the divine council. The paradigm of a high sovereign God (El) who rules heaven and earth through the agency of a second, appointed god (Baal) became part of Israelite religion, albeit with some modification. For the orthodox Israelite, Yahweh was both sovereign and vice regent—occupying both “slots” as it were at the head of the divine council. The binitarian portrayal of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible was motivated by this belief. …
Early Judaism understood this portrayal and its rationale. There was no sense of a violation of monotheism since either figure was indeed Yahweh. There was no second distinct god running the affairs of the cosmos. During the Second Temple period, Jewish theologians and writers speculated on an identity for the second Yahweh. Guesses ranged from divinized humans from the stories of the Hebrew Bible to exalted angels. These speculations were not considered unorthodox. That acceptance changed when certain Jews, the early Christians, connected Jesus with this orthodox Jewish idea. This explains why these Jews, the first converts to following Jesus the Christ, could simultaneously worship the God of Israel and Jesus, and yet refuse to acknowledge any other god. Jesus was the incarnate second Yahweh. In response, as Segal’s work demonstrated, Judaism pronounced the two powers teaching a heresy sometime in the second century A.D….”
In the same vein, as scholars such as Daniel Boyarin, an Orthodox Jew and the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor Emeritus of Talmudic Culture at U.C. Berkeley, argue that in the Second Temple period a divine Messiah was not out of the question.
But just as the Two Powers in Heaven concept that was an orthodox Jewish belief in the 1st century A.D. became a heresy in the 2nd century (it was so widely held that Rabbi Akiva was guilty of this “heresy” and had to be convinced to recant), in response to the rise of Christianity what hadn’t been out of question in the 1st century rapidly became out of the question.
Hence Milhouse’s 21st concept of a Messiah.
Sorry, that is nonsense.
Praise GOD.
Chicken Soup for The Ghoul.
She kept her wits, didn’t dissolve into hysteria, was able to effectively de-escalate tensions, provided critical Intel to the rescuers and embraced the suck to get through to the other side of it. Outstanding job!
Never mess with Savta!
Boyarin is not an Orthodox Jew. His background is at JTS, which hasn’t been Orthodox in more than a century, and he is a far-far leftist, a heretic, and a supporter of the so-called “Jewish Voices for Peace”, which is none of those things.
This is utter bullshit. Rabbi Akiva was never accused of heresy, let alone guilty of it, and never recanted anything.