At the end of the tax year the IRS office sent an inspector to audit the
books of a Synagogue
While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, "I notice
you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?"
"Good question," noted the Rabbi."We save them up and send them back to the
candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles..."
"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question
had a practical answer that he could not inspect. But on he went, in his obnoxious way:
"What about all these bread wafer purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?"
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, now realizing that the inspector was trying to
trap him with unanswerable questions. "We collect them and send them back
to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free box of
bread-wafers."
"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the
Rabbi.
"Well, Rabbi," he went on,"what do you do with all the leftover foreskins
from the circumcisions you perform?"
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save all the
foreskins and send them to the IRS office, and about once a year they send us
a complete dick."
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