At the end of the tax year the Tax 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.
But on he went, in his obnoxious way: "What about all these matzo
(bread)
purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?"
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realising that the inspector was
trying to
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We collect them and send
them
back to the manufacturers and every now and then they send a free
box of
matzo balls."
"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could
fluster the
know-it-all 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 up
all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office and about once a
year they
send us a complete dick."
