Israel Fights Swine Flu with Ram’s Horn
A gaggle of Israeli rabbis gathered together a few days ago, dedicated to stopping the swine flu in its tracks. Steadfast in their knowledge that they could prevent the scourge from harming Israel, they proudly displayed their formidable weapon.
Antivirals? Ha!
Hand-washing? Scientific twaddle!
Surgical masks? Don’t be silly!
These rabbis can do far better than these ridiculous suggestions. They’ve got a ram’s horn! And words to recite, in a near-dead language!
The ram’s horn isn’t for medicinal purposes. It’s not a folk remedy. You don’t ingest it . . . you blow into it. That’s right, they plan to stop the swine flu by blowing notes on a ram’s horn.
The Shofar, a well known symbol of Rosh Hashanah, is one of the earliest instruments used in Jewish music. Usually made from a ram’s horn, a shofar can also be made from the horns of other animals, including those of a goat or sheep. It is the one musical instrument that has not changed in over 5,000 years.
In Biblical times the shofar was blown to announce an important event, such as the alarm of war or the coming of peace. The Great Shofar is said to have been sounded during the greatest event in all Jewish history, the giving of the ten commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai.
Some would think that’s silly, and I’d tend to agree. After all, how can the sound of a horn be heard all across the country?
Ah, Sally Field would be proud of these ingenious flying rabbis!
More than 50 rabbis took to the skies above Israel to ward off swine flu in the country.
The rabbonim recited tehillim and blew the shofar in an effort to stop the spread of swine flu.
The flight’s aim was “to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it,” according to Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, whose father David Batzri organised the flight.
“We are certain that because of our prayers danger is already behind us,” he added.
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Israel has had three fatalities attributed to the virus and 20 people are hospitalised in a “serious condition”. It is estimated the 2,000 people are infected in the country.
Video of the Big Blow is available at The JC.
When will American doctors give up on their ridiculous “science” and “medicine”, and jump on the rampant superstition bandwagon? Just think, under Obamacare, we could have rabbis circling the country 24 hours a day, unhygienically passing a ram’s horn between them without cleaning it with alcohol, landing at airports all over the nation and maybe even letting travelers give their horn a blow.
Soon the flu would be gone!
Because, well, everybody would have had it.
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