Yehudah ben Tema dit: Soyez audacieux comme un léopard, [… et n'ayez pas honte de demander à votre rabbin ce que vous n'avez pas compris, comme nous l'avons appris: "Le timide n'apprend pas"], et léger comme un aigle [à poursuivez votre apprentissage et ne vous lassez pas, comme il est écrit (Esaïe 40:31): "Ils lèveront l'aile comme des aigles; ils courront et ne se lasseront pas"], et rapides comme un cerf [pour poursuivre les mitsvoth], et forts comme un lion [pour soumettre votre mauvais penchant contre la transgression], pour faire la volonté de votre Père céleste. Il avait coutume de dire: "Le" visage effronté "à Gehinnom" [Cette expression est utilisée parce que le courage est vu dans le visage, à savoir. (Proverbes 21:19): "L'homme méchant est effronté dans son visage"], et le 'visage honteux' à Gan Eden. "Que ce soit Ta volonté, OL rd notre D.ieu, que tu bâtisses ta ville à la hâte de nos jours et donnez (nous) notre part dans votre Torah. [Autrement dit, tout comme vous nous avez accordé ce trait (de honte), les signes de la semence d'Abraham sont la honte, la miséricorde et la bonté, ainsi, peut ce sera ta volonté, etc.]
Orchot Tzadikim
Our Sages said: "Anyone who does a transgression and is ashamed of his deed is forgiven for all his sins" (Berakoth 12b). And they said further, "He who has a sense of shame is destined for Paradise" (Aboth 5:42). And our Sages said, "Faith and a sense of shame are linked together, for the one who is ashamed before people shows that he believes in people. If he did not believe in the importance and worth of people he would not care for their opinion and therefore would not be ashamed before them." The wise man said, "If it brings you no shame do all that you desire."
And the opposite of all good traits that appear in the modest person are found in the impudent. When a man persists in this quality and increases in impudence he becomes very disgusting in the eyes of all people, no matter how wise he is. Many evils follow in the train of impudence. He who deals impudently with others will not be free from quarrels, hatred and jealousy. And he who is of the impudent ones denies the uniqueness of God. Such a person cannot bear the presence of a great man and cannot be gracious to the old, and all the transgressions in the Torah are trivial in his eyes — all because of his great impudence. And of him it is said : "The impudent to Gehenna!" (Aboth 5:20).
In this manner the sages of blessed memory warned us: "be brazen as a leopard... to do the will of your Father in Heaven" (Avot 5:20). And David said: "I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed" (Ps. 119:46).