The Jewmanist » swine flu http://jewmanist.com We're all chosen people Tue, 22 May 2012 19:06:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Medicine? Can’t the Rabbis just fight off the swine flu with a Shofar? http://jewmanist.com/2009/08/12/medicine-cant-the-rabbis-just-fight-off-the-swine-flu-with-a-shofar/ http://jewmanist.com/2009/08/12/medicine-cant-the-rabbis-just-fight-off-the-swine-flu-with-a-shofar/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:56:25 +0000 Rose Schwartz http://jewmanist.com/?p=1638 Rabbis attempt to fight off swine flu by blowing shofars. Accompanied by prayer, of course.

Via BBC News:

A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial trumpets to ward off swine flu.

About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting prayers and blowing the horns called “shofars”.

The flight’s aim was “to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it,” Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri was quoted as saying in Yedioth Aharanot newspaper.

The flu is often referred to as H1N1 in Israel, where pigs are seen as unclean.

Thanks to BBC for this gem I can’t unsee. Watch the video here.

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