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
> 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 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 dick."
>
>