Fifty rabbis and Jewish mystics have reportedly taken to the skies over Israel in an attempt to ward the H1N1 swine flu virus away.
The group could be seen chanting prayers from the Kabbalah and blew shofars, the ceremonial ram horns, while circling Israel on Monday afternoon (August 10).
One rabbi tells the Yedioth Ahronoth that the flight aimed “to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it. We are certain that, thanks to the prayer, the danger is already behind us.”
