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Walking down the street one day, a man heard someone calling him.  “Reb Yid, can you get me a minyan?”  He turned around to see who was speaking and to his amazement, he saw it was a parrot in a pet store. Not believing that he heard correctly, he went into the store and asked the parrot to repeat what he just said.  The parrot told him that he davens every day and would like to live in a Jewish home.  Fascinated, the man bought the parrot and took him home.  Sure enough, the parrot davened three times a day.  As the Yomim Noraim were approaching, the parrot said “I would like you to take me to shul on ראש השנה.”  The man said “I can’t take you to shul.  People will think I’m nuts.” However, the parrot would not take no for an answer.  “I know the tefillah.  I know the niggunim.  I deserve to be able to daven with a minyan.”  Notwithstanding his misgivings, the Yid took his parrot to shul on ראש השנה. You can imagine the stir it caused in the congregation.  He was told to leave immediately and take his bird with him.  “But you don’t understand,” he said.  “This is a highly intelligent parrot.  He knows how to daven better than many of the מתפללים here.”  When he heard the scoffing, he said he’s willing to take bets that his parrot davened beautifully.  The congregation accepted his challenge and, shortly before the tefillos were to begin, made their bets.  The man then instructed his parrot: “daven.”  The parrot was silent.  He didn’t utter a sound, ignoring his owner’s repeated pleas.  Both of them were thrown out of the shul.  “How could you do this to me?  On ראש השנה?” the dejected and embarrassed man asked.  “Don’t be a fool,” the parrot responded, “wait till you see the odds we’ll get on יום כיפור.”

05/07/2020