Eretz IRS

At the end of the tax year the IRS sent an inspector to audit the books of a synagogue.

While 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."

"Uh huh," replied the auditor, disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his government-issue arrogance: "Well, then, what about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?"

"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an IRS conundrum. "We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send a free box of full-size matzos."

"I'll just bet," muttered the auditor in a clumsy aside, wondering how he could get to this wise-ass, know-it-all Rabbi.

"Well then, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform? Eh!?

"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save up all the foreskins and send them to the IRS and once a year they send us a complete dick."

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