Rabbi and the IRS

Seeing that it's tax season, this joke is fitting:


The Internal Revenue Service sent their auditor to
a synagogue. The auditor is doing all the checks and
then turns to the Rabbi, and says, "I noticed that you
buy a lot of candles."

"Yes," answered the Rabbi.

"Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?"
he asked.

"A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save
them up and when we have enough, we send them back
to the candle maker and every now and then, they send
us a free box of candles."

"Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his
unusual question actually had a practical answer. So he
thought he'd go on, in his obnoxious way... "Rabbi, what
about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with
the crumbs from the matzo?"

"Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up
all the crumbs from the matzo and when we have enough,
we send them in a box back to the manufacturer and
every now and then, they send a box of matzo balls."

"Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the
Rabbi.

"Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the
foreskins from the circumcisions? "

"Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi.
"What we do is save up all the foreskins, and when we
have enough we send them to the IRS ".

"IRS?" questioned the auditor in disbelief. "Ah, yes,"
replied the Rabbi, "IRS . . . and about once a year, they
send us a little prick like you."