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 complete 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
bread wafer purchases? What do you do with the
crumbs?'
'Ah, yes,' replied the Rabbi, realizing that the
inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable
question. 'We collect them and send them back to the
manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a
free complete box of bread-wafers.'
'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 all the foreskins and send them to
the tax office, and about once a year they send us a
complete d*ck.'
