My best friend growing up had an african parrot just like this one.  He used to say “David! Go to your room!” because my friend’s older brother David would get in trouble so often that the parrot learned to copy the phrase.

One of our beloved Noahide readers owns a parrot just like my friend’s.  Except around the Noahide house their bird has learned to say “Baruch Hashem!”¹

Should we make this the iHeartNoahides mascot?
What do you think?

Have a wonderful Shabbat!

הִגִּיד לְךָ אָדָם, מַה-טּוֹב; וּמָה-יְהוָה דּוֹרֵשׁ מִמְּךָ, כִּי אִם-עֲשׂוֹת מִשְׁפָּט וְאַהֲבַת חֶסֶד, וְהַצְנֵעַ לֶכֶת, עִם-אֱלֹהֶיךָ

It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what Hashem doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy G-d.
(Micah 6:8)

(source: tzniut)
Humility is a paramount ideal within Judaism. Moses is referred to as “exceedingly humble, more than any man in the world” (Numbers 12:3).

The Talmud states that humility is one of the characteristic traits of the Jewish people. (Talmud, Tractate Yevamot 79a.)

Tzniut (modesty) includes a group of laws concerned with modesty, in both dress and behavior. It is first mentioned in this context by the prophet Micah (6:8): “[...] and to walk humbly (hatzne’a leches) with your G-d”.

In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Elazar Bar Tzadok connected this prophetic precept with modesty and discretion in dress and in behavior (Tractate Sukkah 49b).

(Let me know if you share the following dilemma...)

Dilemma

I want to be
        famous
so I can be
        humble
about being
        famous.

What good is my
        humility
when I am
        stuck
in this
        obscurity?

	-- David Budbill