Synagogue Audit
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 free box of candles."
"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his own particularly
obnoxious way: "What about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with
the crumbs?"
"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realising that this inspector was trying
to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We collect them and send them
back to the manufacturers. 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, getting tired of
this unusually rude auditor. "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."
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