The Tax Man Cometh ........
At the end of the financial year, the Tax Office sent an auditor to check the books of a synagogue.
While he was busy doing this, he turned to the Rabbi and said, 'I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the drippings?'
' Good question ', noted the Rabbi. ' We save them up , send them back to the candle makers and every now and then they send us a free box of candles. '
'Oh ', replied the auditor, disappointed his unusual question had a practical answer. On he went, in his obnoxious way:
'What about all these biscuit purchases , what do you do with the crumbs?
'Ah, yes ', replied the Rabbi, realizing the auditor was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. 'We collect them, send them back to the manufacturers and every now and then they send a free box of holy biscuits.
'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, you will be glad to hear that we do not waste', answered the Rabbi.
'What we do is save up all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office, then about once a year they send us a complete dick.'