Yom Kippur Bears
Didja hear the Yom Kippur story about the frum yid taking a walk in the
deep woods of Maine?
As he was walking along, he stumbled and his kipah fell off. He bent
over to pick it up. As he stood up he noticed a bear standing right in
front of him.
The guy is just shocked. He quickly put the kipah back on his head and,
believing his end near, began reciting the Shema.
The bear saw the kippah and heard the prayer--and lo and behold! -- the
bear put a kipah on his head too! Then the bear began to pray.
Seeing the bear davening, the poor yid breathed a small sigh of relief and
began to bentch gomel.
He finished just in time to hear the bear utter the last words of the
bear's prayer -- hamotzi lekhem min ha-aretz.*
(*the blessing that is said before meals)