Jews worldwide celebrate Purim holiday with a Hamantaschen cookie

CHICAGO — Each Jewish vacation has its personal meals guidelines – what to eat and what to keep away from consuming – as a logo for the teachings being taught. On Purim, probably the most joyful vacation on the Jewish calendar, Jews have fun with a cookie.

“Hanataschen is a triangular-shaped pastry,” mentioned Walter Richtman, basic supervisor of Tel Aviv Kosher Bakery in Chicago. “We make ours with seven totally different fillings.”

The most typical sort within the U.S. is made with cookie dough and may slot in your palm. However the conventional model from “the previous world” (a.ok.a. Europe), is made with yeast dough and appears like a stuffed candy bread. Tel Aviv Bakery makes each sorts.

The cookie derives its title from Haman, a chief minister in historical Persia who ordered to have all of the Jews killed. In accordance with the biblical story, the Jews have been capable of overcome the menace Haman posed by means of a sequence of miracles. At the moment, Jews bear in mind Haman’s failure to eradicate them by consuming a cookie within the form of his triangular hat.

“A Hamantaschen is wrapped up. Inside you may have one thing candy. On the skin, you do not see the sweetness,” Rabbi Levi Notik mentioned. “Purim reminds us to remain optimistic even when issues are tough.”

Notik runs a synagogue and meals pantry instantly throughout the road from Tel Aviv Bakery. He mentioned that cooking, consuming, and sharing meals is a technique that Jews convey holiness into their day by day lives.

“Meals brings folks collectively, meals is celebratory, in fact, and meals is sustenance,” Notik mentioned.