Dozens of rabbis and kabbalah mystics armed with ceremonial trumpets took to the skies over Israel to battle the H1N1 swine flu virus, Israeli news media reported Tuesday. About 50 Jewish holy men chanted prayers and blew ritual rams’ horns known as shofars in an aircraft circling over the country in the hope of stopping the spread of the virus, some of them told the newspaper Yediot Aharonot. “The aim of the flight was to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it,” said Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri.
