As retold by
Bruce Lowitt
A lady goes to her rabbi and tells him, "I have a
problem. I have two female talking parrots, but they only know how to say one
thing: 'Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?' What can I
do?"
The rabbi thinks, then says, 'I might have a solution. I have two male talking
parrots whom I have taught to pray and read scripture. Bring your two parrots
over to my house, and put them in with mine. I'm sure my parrots can teach yours
a more proper vocabulary.'"
The next day, she brings her parrots to the rabbi, whose birds, in tefillin,
are davening. She places her parrots in with them.
After a few minutes, the female parrots say, in unison: "Hi, we're
prostitutes. Do you want to have some fun?"
For a moment there is silence. Then one male parrot turns to the other one
and says,"Put the siddur away. Our prayers have been answered."
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